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Glen Johnson stood in line at Big Pa’s Bait and Tackle. Drenched with sweat, it was the hottest day swinging a hammer that he could remember in a long time. He figured the only way to end a day this hot would be with a couple of ice-cold Gatorades and a box of worms. While…
For Martin Richter the hunting story started with his maternal grandfather, Richard Link. The time was shortly after World War II in the late 1940s. The place? Bamberg, in what was then known as West Germany. Fast-forward to last month. Late afternoon, Richter is somewhere between Brunswick and Jesup, some 35 miles from the Georgia…
After listening to Matt Beauregard speak as a guest on the Georgia Afield Hunting Podcast last fall, I knew right away I had to sit down with him for an in-depth story on WMA hunting for our 2021 August edition of GON Magazine. I’ve known Matt for a few years now, (we attend the same…
If the cost of a private dove field isn’t in your wallet this September, Georgia WRD does a good job of offering folks some public field opportunities. Thanks to Kevin Lowrey with WRD, we’re able to provide readers with this list of public shoots, the crops that have been planted, the acreage of the field,…
Once again GON has looked at all the hunt data from public lands and crunched them into easy-to-read tables and charts, so that you can begin making your plans on where to hunt this fall. We have hunt stats on 91 different WMAs, State Parks, Natural Areas and Tracts. If you’re a GON subscriber, you’ll…
It was early December last year, and my son Hunter had two different bucks on camera. He was hunting one, and he told me to go hunt one of his other spots that had also had a buck coming in fairly frequently. Hunter had already taken a great buck that met the Pope and Young…
Three bucks cracked the magical Boone & Crockett minimum, solidifying last season as special in the annals of Georgia deer hunting. But more impressive than the Booners might be the 13 bucks that scored above the 160-class. That ties a record for the most 160-class and better bucks ever taken, and officially measured, during a…
Deadlines are nearing to participate in a WRD youth hunt. First up is the Aug. 15 deadline to put your kid on a dove field. Of the 10 dove hunts offered in 2020, six of them required no priority points for a spot. Go to georgia wildlife.com/hunting/quota#odds to see which hunts were the easiest and…
Last month we met the first half of this year’s Shoot-Out field. Now let’s meet the remainder of our weekly and wildcard winners from last deer season. Seventeen weekly winners and four hunters in our wildcard spots are looking forward to the chance to win a new truck. This year’s Shoot-Out takes place at the…
The biggest news for this year’s Georgia dove opener is the brand-new start time when a dove can legally fall to the field. No longer will hunters be required to wait until 12 p.m. before shooting on opening day. Dove season will officially begin one-half hour before sunrise on Saturday, Sept. 4. However, not everyone…
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