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Hunting
It was a dark, cold 30-degree December morning as we were motored across St. Catherines Sound looking for the small red blinking light on a channel marker. We were headed to the ocean side of St. Catherines Island in the predawn black, the taste and scent of the salt hitting our faces. The ride wasn’t…
Gary called Randy and said, “I can bring my boat, and we can make it out to Ossabaw on Wednesday and get camp set up. Warren is going to ride with me.” Randy responded, “This is our 15th trip to the island in 30 years. I really look forward to this every time we are…
It all started when the Taylor County buck showed up on camera. Zach Getskow got one look and knew his season was about to be spent chasing one deer. But hunting is hunting; things don’t always work out as planned. “I got a deer that did this to me,” Zach said from his bed at…
One hunter comes out of the woods reporting that it’s dead as a hammer, and a guy down the road can’t see straight after witnessing all the rut-chasing mayhem around his stand. Such is hunting during the Georgia rut. This year the chasing activity may have been more sporadic than usual because of unseasonably warm…
A 16-year-old young man couldn’t believe his eyes when a 19-pointer walked into his Monroe County food plot on the afternoon of Nov. 19. Although Addison Wallace and his dad Tim, of Blackshear, had been hunting this property for four years and had been running trail cameras since June, they had no clue this 188…
David Handley, of Macon, had quite the surprise while checking out his Bibb County lock-on stand on Sept. 11, the afternoon before bow season. He discovered deer bones and the rack of a giant buck that appeared to have been dead for a while, likely since the buck had a rack at the end of…
This hunt story encompasses the importance of what quality deer management is. The story of Mr. Donald Davis’ 17-year-long endeavor in growing mature whitetails is one that is both inspiring and rewarding. It tells the story of a man who actively engages in the pursuit of mature whitetails, a man who doesn’t just enjoy the…
When Ragan Souter, of Poulan, climbed into her buddy stand on the afternoon of Nov. 21, she had no idea she was fixing to kill a Worth County giant that a local deer processor and her boyfriend would tape out unofficially at 190 total inches of antler. Although Ragan will have to wait the 60…
Alex Moore had been back in the woods and hunting just a few times after his last radiation treatment, and here he was face to face with his buck of a lifetime. With only seconds to react, he knew he would have to remain focused and go through the process of drawing his bow, anchoring…
A high-dollar hunting club or owning a big tract of managed land isn’t required for some great deer hunting in Georgia. There’s plenty of public land where the management is being done by biologists and wildlife technicians, and a look through the big bucks being entered in this year’s Truck-Buck Contest is proof of that.…
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