Posts by Lindsay Thomas Jr.
December Wildlife in Mind
As a landowner or a land manager, you are probably familiar with some of the various government programs that offer cost-share incentives for soil, habitat and wildlife conservation practices that you implement. Well, beginning in January there will be a brand new program to take advantage of in Georgia, and it stands to be the…
Read MoreLake Lanier Crappie With Randy Dover
Randy Dover is in a different boat almost every time you pass him on Lake Lanier. Due to his local reputation for knowing the best docks for crappie, you might think his constant selling and buying of boats is his way of throwing other crappie anglers off his trail. Take one look at Randy and…
Read MoreTales From Truck-Buck 2003-04
There were some very impressive whitetails killed during the archery weeks of Truck-Buck last year, but it is always the first few weeks of gun season, in particular the November weeks, that produce the most spectacular deer of the season. Last month we told you the stories behind our archery and primitive-weapons week winners in…
Read MoreThe Osborne Eight: Georgia’s Best 8-Point Buck Ever
Whatʼs the highest-scoring 8-point buck in Georgia? Now there is an official answer to this often-asked question. Georgiaʼs best 8-pointer was killed in Morgan County by Jimmy Osborne, of Doraville, on opening day of firearms season, 1968. Jimmy, then 28 years old, was with his dad, Blue Osborne. The father-and-son team had done a lot…
Read MoreThe Hugh Barber Buck: Jasper County’s Former State Record
Every so often, a relic recovered from some dusty tomb, or a fragment of bone fossilized in rock, helps historians fill in one more gap in the story of the past. Similarly, it happens every now and then that a Georgia whitetail buck killed decades ago, brought to light by circumstance, is finally put down…
Read MoreDNR 2003 Proposed Budget Cuts Painful For Sportsmen
DNR Commissioner Lonice Barrett summed up the budget situation on August 19 when he told the DNR Board that meeting the latest ordered budget cuts had been like deciding “which one of your kids do you want to shoot?” With Georgiaʼs state-revenue outlook growing more dismal, Gov. Sonny Perdueʼs office issued orders to agencies in…
Read MoreHow The 2002 Truck-Buck Weeks Were Won
Coming this month is the most thrilling, most anticipated event in Georgia deer hunting except for opening day of gun season — the Truck- Buck Shoot-Out. If we awarded our new Z71 pickup to the highest-scoring buck of the year, all we’d have is a deer contest. Truck-Buck is about hunters as much as it…
Read MoreJerry Malone’s 1967 Jones County Monster Buck
“Deer tracks makes mighty thin soup.” You’ve seen this old joke cross-stitched and framed or painted on plaques in country homes, but you don’t hear it much anymore. Honestly, when was the last time you came home from the woods unsuccessful but reported with enthusiasm that you had seen some deer tracks? But there was…
Read MoreJuly Wildlife in Mind
Those of us who have had the opportunity to hunt ducks in a flooded field of corn or grain sorghum, or in an impoundment planted in rice, know that these settings have the potential to draw clouds of ducks. The hunting opportunities that result can be outstanding, but the bad news is that most of…
Read MoreMay Wildlife In Mind
It is appropriate that May is a good month to turn your habitat-management thoughts to wild turkeys, since many of us still have turkeys in our hunting thoughts as well. May is the right time to put in a plot of chufa, a nut sedge that will feed wild turkeys during the tough months of…
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