Hunter: Josh ChandlerPoints: 18 (11L, 7R)County: JasperSeason: 2024-2025Hunt StoryI’ve watched this beautiful buck all summer. I’ve carefully watched my cameras as he got closer to coming in at daylight. I’m only 75 yards or so from his bedding area. As luck would have it, I played the wind and cards right. The rest is history.Return…

Hunter: Allie JohnsonPoints: 8 (4L, 4R)County: GlynnSeason: 2024-2025Hunt StoryThis is my daughter’s largest buck to date. She was hunting in the Youth Adult Child Clayhole Swamp WMA early rifle hunt. We saw two small bucks and a doe Friday afternoon. Saturday she was able to kill two hogs, then Sunday afternoon the first deer to…

Hunter: Michael CochranPoints: 13 (7L, 6R)County: GwinnettSeason: 2024-2025Hunt StoryHeading toward the suburbs with 91 degrees on the dash of the Jeep. I had my doubts of him coming in but something told me to go anyway. Very slow afternoon in the blind til 20 minutes before dark when four spikes came to feed on the…

Hunter: Peyton MassiePoints: 12 (6L, 6R)County: ForsythSeason: 2024-2025Hunt StoryShakerag Water Authority DNR hunt. My 13-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter were selected for the hunt. My son killed a nice 12-point piebald buckReturn to List

Hunter: Mason EnglePoints: 8 (4L, 4R)County: HoustonSeason: 2024-2025Hunt StoryI’ve been getting pictures of him every afternoon at the same time around 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. for the past three months, so I set a blind up in the spot. I didn’t get a right wind and a calm enough day until that Wednesday afternoon…

Hunter: Brandon GrindlePoints: 9 (5L, 4R)County: HallSeason: 2024-2025Hunt StoryI’ve been watching this guy for several weeks on a new piece of property. I knew he was bedded close because of all the daylight appearances. I skipped opening morning and he came in at 9:40 a.m. I hunted him all day Sunday with no sighting but…

Hunter: Addy MaxwellPoints: 8 (4L, 4R)County: PikeSeason: 2024-2025Hunt StoryWe got in the blind around 6:45 a.m., legal shooting light was 6:55 a.m. I had pictures of a group of 5 bucks for the last few weeks still together. The buck she shot was the largest of the group and her biggest to date. I use…

Hunter: Dakota YoderPoints: 8 (4L, 4R)County: MaconSeason: 2024-2025Hunt StoryOn September 17th, the hunt began. A perfect spot had been chosen: a large oak tree nestled in a pinch point between a 10-acre field, a line of 10-year-old pines, and an old hedge row adjacent to a neighbor’s soybean field. For 12-year-old Dakota and his 9-year-old…

Hunter: Alex SutherlandPoints: 12 (5L, 7R)County: GordonSeason: 2024-2025Hunt StoryI had watched the buck for the previous 2 years and planned to really hunt the buck hard this year having him aged at what I thought to be 5 1/2. I hunted him 5 out of 6 evenings and with him being one of the last…

Hunter: Jack StreetmanPoints: 11 (6L, 5R)County: GwinnettSeason: 2024-2025Hunt StoryI was hunting on opening afternoon in the spot where we had been getting pictures of this deer almost every day before dark. My dad was supposed to be hunting in his stand but he had to go to a wedding, so I told him I was…