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…

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Talbot 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…

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Georgia 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…

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Webster 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…

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Slow 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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