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Hunting
Georgia is blessed to have a smorgasbord of state parks littered across the state in just about every possible direction. Little Ocmulgee State Park is such a place, located in south Georgia just outside of McRae-Helena. It has about everything you could expect from a top-notch weekend destination. Originally founded in the 1930s, this property…
Telfair County, Georgia — home of the world-record George Perry bass and the Georgia state record non-typical buck. Decades of unsurpassed fishing and hunting. Surely this must be some of the most fertile waters and woodlands in the state. Now, for the most recent outdoor milestone. Enter a south Georgia country gal nick-named “Lil Bit,”…
On the evening of Thursday, Sept. 13, Jerrod McDaniel, of Hazlehurst, killed a 13-foot Ocmulgee River alligator in Zone 5 near the town of Jacksonville. Jerrod is one of 100 who received a permit to hunt this zone. Jerrod was hunting with his dad Dennis, who was the actual gator tag holder, and his buddy…
Week 13 North (Dec. 5-11) 1. Terry Renfroe (pl), Paulding Forest WMA 147 0/8 2. John Robinson, Walton Co. 145 1/8 3. Jeff Hudgins, Troup Co. 141 5/8 4. Kendall Golightly (b), Cobb Co. 139 5/8 5. Derrick Wood, Glascock Co. 134 3/8 6. Adam Craver (pl), Chattahoochee National Forest 130 5/8 7. Grayson Watts…
A new mystery has emerged that could shed new light on the elusive story of the world-record bass landed in Georgia in 1932. June 2 marked the 81st anniversary of the day a young farmer named George W. Perry cast his only lure into Montgomery Lake, an Ocmulgee River oxbow in Telfair County, landing a…
Manabu Kurita says landing a world-record bass in his native Japan two years ago hasn’t changed his life drastically — but it has certainly changed his life. “In Japan, for me, it isn’t much different at all,” the 34-year-old auto service worker said through an interpreter during a recent visit to Georgia. “But the…
Bob Stanley, of McRae, was mowing fire lanes on his Telfair County hunting property near the town of Workmore when he killed a 5-foot eastern diamondback rattlesnake. “When he killed it, he took it to the barn and hung it up,” wrote Elleen, Bob’s wife, in an e-mail to GON. “The next morning he went…
Believe it or not, Adam, Daniel and Tyler Williamson and Ernest Padgett caught this 860-lb. feral hog alive in Telfair County. The hog was throwing catch-dogs in the air before the men somehow tackled and tied the pig, which later died, apparently from heat stress. The dog in the foreground, Wiley, was cut under the…
The 1998-99 deer season will probably be remembered for many things. The weather was scorching hot and bone dry throughout most of the season, white oaks were barren in many places where the deer season normally revolves around white oak acorns, and most hunters reported an absent, insignificant or off-schedule rut. Who would have guessed…
The week before Paul Smith took the best Georgia buck of the 1993-94 season in Dodge County, Craig Walker, of McRae, was hunting a private lease in Telfair County, Dodge’s neighboring county to the east. Actually, Craig had decided to combine a quick scouting and hunting trip before work on the day prior to Thanksgiving.…
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