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GON's 36th Annual Truck-Buck Contest
There's is no deer contest anywhere in the country like the one Georgia deer hunters have in GON's Truck-Buck Shoot-Out. Back for the 36th year during the 2024-25 Georgia deer season, Truck-Buck again has weekly and wildcard winners who earn scoring-period prizes and qualify for the Shoot-Out finals. With a grand prize truck, a second grand prize Firminator, and weekly prize packages valued at more than $1,500, this contest is crazy good. You must be an annual GON subscriber before a buck is killed to be eligible for the contest (monthly subscribers are not eligible).
We couldn't do it without our subscribers and our generous sponsors.
• 17 weekly winners & 4 wild-cards gives us a total of 21 shooters
• You're only competing against bucks taken in the same week
• More than 100 prizes given away worth more than $75,000!
• Visit our sponsors shown below and tell them thanks!
Our generous sponsors help us give GON subscribers more than 100 prizes worth over $75,000! When you have a choice to do business please show them support. Heck drop them an email and let them know Georgia hunters appreciate them.
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Weeks 1 - 4 :
Winners Receive An Obsession Bow
Week 5 :
Winner Receives a CVA Optima V2 Muzzleloader
Weeks 6 - 17 :
Winners Receive A Savage 110 Storm Deer Rifle
Each Weekly Winner Also Receives A Prize Package From 4S Advanced Wildlife Solutions and Safety Harness From Hunter Safety Systems
Each Of 4 Wildcard Winners Receives A Prize Package Including Products From: 4S Advanced Wildlife Solutions, Hunter Safety Systems, Agri Supply and Rugged Road Outdoors
Plus A Separate Contest Exclusively For Youth Hunters
Thanks to our sponsors GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest is back. It's all about the kids! Each weekly winner will receive a personalized Shoot-Out jersey from Realtree, a Flashback trail-camera from Stealth Cam, a high performance ultralight cooler from Rugged Road Outdoors and some awesome scent products from Scrape Juice.
Of course, the Grand Prize winner will win a $3,000 shopping spree at Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna. Plus, the hunter will get to spend a weekend deer and hog hunting, and spending time with the great folks at Woods-N-Water Outfitters for a three-day trip. The second-best shooter in the finals will receive a CVA Scout break-action .243 centerfire rifle from BPI Outdoors.
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Week 12: Luke Rountree, 144 5/8 typical County: Cook Date: Dec. 2 Cook County was throwing out some stellar bucks last season. In addition to David Wall’s Week 11 buck that set a record as the best non-typical ever from Cook, there was also a new No. 1 buck of…
Runner-Up Wildcard: Cody Dennard, 158 1/8 typical County: Houston Date: Nov. 8, Week 8 Cody Dennard, 28, was born and raised in Perry and now lives just south in the small town of Elko. “I’ve been in the woods and on the water since I could walk,” Cody said. “Hunting deer, ducks, hogs,…
Youth Wildcard: Janie Funderburk, 140 2/8 typical County: Meriwether Date: Nov. 28, Week 11 The Youth Wildcard is a spot in the annual Truck-Buck Shoot-Out for the highest-scoring buck entered by a hunter 15 years old or younger that doesn’t win a week outright. GON also conducts a separate contest just for kids called…
Week 11: David Wall, 183 6/8 non-typical County: Cook Date: Nov. 28 Last November, David Wall took the week of Thanksgiving off of work to get some good time in the deer woods. “I waited until the early morning of Monday the 25th to go and saw a few does and small bucks…
Week 10: Dwayne Griffin, 140 5/8 typical County: Colquitt Date: Nov. 20 Back in 1992, a 30-year-old hunter from Moultrie killed a 150-inch buck in Colquitt County that earned him a truck in the Hilsman Deer Cooler contest, plus a spot in GON’s Truck-Buck Shoot-Out—at that time only the second Truck-Buck Shoot-Out ever.…