Posts by Amber Roberts
Worth County 170-Inch Buck Killed Off Gut Feeling
On Dec. 1, Jacob Drawdy, of Sumner, killed a massive buck on his own private land that green scored a total of 169 4/8 inches. Thankfully, Jacob listened to his gut feeling, and it paid off with this huge Georgia buck. After coming home from work that day, Jacob called his girlfriend and asked her to come…
Read MoreTalbot County 170-inch Buck Killed On A Changeup
By completely changing his normal hunting routine, Jim Sams, of Fayetteville, was able to successfully put the smackdown on a Talbot County 10-point that green-scored 171 gross inches. “I had been hunting this deer all season since first seeing him in December of last year,” said Jim. Jim first jumped the big buck on his…
Read MoreCook County 182-Inch Buck Falls After 12 Straight Days Of Hunting
Patience definitely paid off for Ron Purvis, of Adel, on Nov. 29. Ron was hunting family land when he took down a Cook County 12-point monster that green-scored 182 3/8 inches. After hunting this buck for four years, Ron had only seen the buck a few times on his trail-camera pictures, but he’d never laid…
Read MoreChattahoochee National Forest 8-pointer Locked Up With Decomposing Buck Still Attached
On Thanksgiving Day afternoon, Nov. 24, Nate Martin went hunting in Whitfield County in the Chattahoochee National Forest. He was hoping to get his first buck, but little did he know that he would return home that afternoon dragging two bucks—or at least the remains of two bucks. “After we all ate, I went to…
Read MoreGeorgia Soldier Kills Fort Benning Buck On Veterans Day
A 158 5/8-inch gross-scoring buck was taken from Fort Benning on Nov. 11, Veterans Day, by Russell Wyatt, an infantryman on the 182,000-acre military installation near the Georgia-Alabama border adjacent to Columbus. Russell has only been hunting a handful of times, but for a man who’s only shot a few deer, he’s now set the bar pretty high…
Read MoreWebster County Buck Could Bust 190 Inches
On Friday, Nov. 18, Judd Schramm, of Columbus, killed a giant 17-point buck while hunting in Webster County that could top 190 total inches of antler. “I had pictures of him many times and had a bunch of him on my trail camera on Monday (Nov. 14). I had already taken off work for the end of…
Read MoreSlow Start For Georgia Bear Season, But Some Giant Bears Taken
Even though several big bears have been killed, WRD reports a slower-than-normal archery bear season. “Our harvest record indicates that we only have 33 bear records that have come into the office thus far, and that’s low,” said Scott Frazier, a WRD wildlife biologist in Gainesville. “Typically, we’ll tag over 100 bears during archery season,…
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