Earlier in the year, Crooked River State Park in extreme southeast Georgia won the “Most Outstanding Park Operations” award for a combination of being run efficiently, as well as having outstanding interpretive programs and facilities. With such an awesome assortment of parks and historic sites across our great state, that is quite an honor. A decade ago, it was a regular occurrence for my father and I to rent the Crooked River State...

Truth in Nature held its final program of the year on Dec. 1, a deer hunt outside of Waco at Walker Creek Outdoors. Truth in Nature is a Christian outdoor ministry for youth from one-parent homes.

“During this hunt we had 10 youth/volunteer teams in the woods,” said Jeff Davis, founder of Truth in Nature. “One of the volunteers was our Louisiana Chapter Program Director Michael Rivers. He was paired with one of our regular attendees, Tanner Hillman.

“Tanner and Michael were in a buddy stand on the back side of the property. At daybreak, they saw a doe slipping past just out of range.

“Around 8:45 a.m., a doe and a good 6-pointer came down a firebreak.”

Tanner had his rifle ready when the buck eased out of some thick stuff.

“Michael said that when the buck moved from behind the brush and Tanner saw it had antlers, he looked up and said ‘Oh my...

It was a Saturday morning in early June. A pre-dawn summer rain had just stopped as I drove toward a local cattle farm to do a little coyote hunting.

To me, any time is a good time to hunt coyotes, but this time of year—late May, June and early July—are especially key....

Lake Burton, north of Atlanta near Helen, is a 2,200-acre jewel nestled between the foothills of north Georgia. Deep and clear, it shares the characteristics of most mountain lakes, but Burton has an added attraction. This beautiful body of water is surrounded by some magnificent homes. In fact this lake is more likely known as a playground for the wealthy than its angling opportunities. For...