A Fayette County horse shot on Jan. 3 with three broadhead-tipped arrows is recovering, according to Nancy Padovano, the horses’ owner. On Jan. 7, Jeremy Ryan Richardson, 17, of Fayette County, was arrested on an aggravated...

The University of Georgia and WRD recently began a four-year cooperative study into the effects of coyotes on fawns, and it will result in a significant reduction of coyotes on two middle Georgia WMAs. “We know from previous...

Opening morning of the 2009 turkey season had arrived, and I couldn’t think of a time when I was more eager to start the season.

I had scouted the area I would be hunting a couple of days earlier and had found four mature gobblers and a wad of hens roosting on the edge of a wide, flat hardwood bottom. I set up within 75 yards of the roost and listened as the spring woods came to life. The Putnam County birds were gobbling...

Hunting isn’t just about the killing — but it sure is fun trying everything in your power to get in position to let an arrow fly. Just ask Jake Meyer.

Jake, 14, of Neptune Beach, Fla. was the 2008 SEEDS Big-Buck Contest winner. He won the grand prize big-game hunt to Wyoming, where he spent five days hunting antelope and mule deer with last year’s SEEDS Big-Buck Contest sponsors — country singer Roland Whitt and the guys from Flies and Fletching, Wilderness Outfitters and Arrowdynamic Solutions.

“Wyoming was absolutely incredible,” said Jake. “On my first day of hunting, I used my crossbow and shot a nice antelope right through the neck. Unfortunately he was the toughest antelope in Wyoming, and he ran off. The next morning we spotted him feeding. I saw many mule deer, including some very big bucks. We even snuck to within 7 yards of a nice buck but couldn’t get a shot. I hunted about 12 hours a day. I stayed...

The sound of a dog barking rang loudly through the mixed hardwoods on top of a mountain ridge in north Georgia. A sure sign to Bob Thomas, of Morganton, that his black mountain cur, Moe, had just treed a squirrel and was waiting on him. Carrying a .17 HMR rifle with a high-quality scope, Bob took...

February is my favorite month for big bass. That is a bold statement, but it has proven true over and over during the last three decades. Bass have been growing eggs since fall, cold weather pulled them off into a winter pattern, but their instinct tells them that any day it will be time to move shallow in preparation to spawn. All it takes is a few warm days to get them to move out of deep water...

Severe weather forced anglers off Lake Tobesofkee on the scheduled tournament day of March 28, so the state’s best young tournament anglers returned the next day to vie for bragging rights and state-championship honors in the 2009 Georgia Bass...