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Hunting
“What’cha doing Saturday morning?” Mark asked. “I don’t know,” I replied. “Nothing, I guess. Why?” “Want to go turkey hunting with me?” “Turkey hunting? “Yeah, turkey hunting!” “Man, I don’t know nothing ’bout no turkey hunting.” “Well, I don’t know much myself, but I’ll show you what I do know.” “Yeah, but it’s March.” “I…
Allen Rudolph of Eatonton eats, breaths and lives for deer hunting. Since moving to Georgia in 1998, he’s spent countless hours on Cedar Creek WMA and the Oconee National Forest. On Friday, Nov. 9, all that hard scouting and hunting effort was rewarded with a 140-class bruiser buck from Cedar Creek WMA. “Somebody kills a 140-class…
Let’s talk reality hunting. A lot of our subscribers hunt just like me, on pine-infested timberland. My hunting club has a decent deer population, and it receives some moderate hunting pressure. So, how would two expert deer hunters approach this piece of property and where would they hunt? We invited John Seginak and John Stanley…
For three years me and a couple of the boys from the office, along with some family and friends, have been hunting a 900-acre piece of old Weyerhaeuser timber land covered with thick pines, briars, clearcuts and a few hardwood drains. The club has lots of deer on it, so we’ve enjoyed the luxury of…
My first hunting memories were born on B.F. Grant WMA. Growing up east of Atlanta, dad and I wore some tires out running back and forth to this 14,000-acre Putnam County WMA, roaming hardwood hillsides and creek bottoms for squirrels and turkeys. In the early 1990s I killed my first turkey there. The first drake…
Sixteen-year-old skeet-shooter Vincent Hancock of Eatonton outshot the world in the recent 2005 ISSF World Clay Target Championship in Lonato, Italy to take the Men’s Skeet World Championship. Vincent, a member of the Lake Oconee Shotgun Team, used his Beretta DT10 and a near-perfect swing to break 148 of a possible 150 targets and become…
A weekend deer hunt on the Oconee National Forest in Putnam County turned into a nightmare for Marty James, of Lilburn, when a killer tornado tore through the woods and trapped him under a massive oak tree for more than four hours. Marty James and two friends, Paul Taylor and his son Doug, both of…
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