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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.
Latest Truck Buck Articles
Public-Land Wildcard: Chase Hemphill, 137 4/8 Public Land: Chestatee WMA, Lumpkin Co. Date: Dec. 12 Chase Hemphill, 35, of Blairsville, is an outdoorsman through and through. “I have been hunting since I was a small child with teachings of my father, uncles and grandfather,” Chase said. “I live from deer season to fishing to turkey season…
Week 7: Sonny Abercrombie, 171 2/8 non-typical County: Crawford Date: Oct. 27 Sonny Abercrombie’s story, like for many sportsmen, begins back in childhood. “My father and grandfather had me in the woods when I was young. My grandfather was a beagle raising rabbit hunting man. I shot my first rabbit off my grandfather’s knee with…
Week 6: Cade Croft, 147 3/8 typical County: Harris Date: Oct. 21 The gun season scoring periods began with Week 6 of the contest, and from then on each week the highest-scoring buck earns the hunter a Browning deer rifle. On the Monday following opening weekend of gun season, 14-year-old Cade Croft was hunting over…
Week 5: Reid Diers, 139 3/8 typical County: Colquitt Date: Oct. 15 The fifth week of last deer season was the primitive-weapons week, which is now also the Youth week, where kids 15 and younger can use a modern rifle. The winner of this week was Reid Diers, of Norman Park, who earned a new…
Week 4: Kayla Pitts, 167 1/8 non-typical County: Houston Date: Oct. 11 GON has been around quite a while, long enough there’s lots of history in these pages. Take Kayla Pitts for example. She’s now 30, but many GON people still remember the August 2009 Truck-Buck Shoot-Out when a 19-year-old Kayla all but won a…