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Jeff Goins, of Good Hope, harvested a giant Georgia buck while hunting on the Oconee National Forest in Putnam County early this morning. It was the last day of his two-week vacation. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime kind of deer,” Jeff told GON. Jeff was hunting with his fiancée, Erica Maxwell, also of Good Hope. The two were hunting in a…
The managed hunts for Cumberland Island National Seashore have been cancelled for the October, November and December dates. The cancelled hunts are the Oct. 22-23 Adult-Child gun hunt, and the Nov. 7-9 and Dec. 5-7 primitive-weapons hunts. “Due to extensive damage from Hurricane Matthew, we do not feel the island’s hunt zone and hunt camp…
Georgia hunters continue to watch the skies for any signs of rain as food plot plantings remain on hold and game animals shift their hunting season travel patterns to watering holes. The bad news for hunters is that there’s no real signifiant rain chance in the forecast at least through the first week of November. “It’s…
Hunters still have a chance to make comments that could lead to improvements to habitat and an increase in wildlife populations on 143,419 acres of the Chattahoochee National Forest (CNF) and parts of Cohutta WMA, an area known as the “Foothills Landscape.” Comments can be made at two upcoming U.S. Forest Service meetings or by going online to www.tinyurl.com/FoothillsLandscape.…
It’s finally going to feel like fall for Georgia deer hunters who hit the woods for opening morning of the firearms deer season tomorrow, Oct. 22. Chilly winds will have leaves—and acorns—raining from the trees, and Georgia deer hunters across the state will be hoping for some opening-day magic. In many counties, that magic better…
A ban on all hunting and recreational archery shooting could come as a result of a proposed ordinance that will be discussed at a Peachtree Corners City Council meeting tonight, Oct. 18. In addition to hunters, the proposed ordinance apparently would affect archers who like to target practice in their own yards. The wording of the Peachtree Corners proposal states,…
On Saturday, Oct. 22, the Stapleton family and the Lake Oconee Shooting Team will host a fundraising sporting clays shotgun event in the memory Seth Stapleton, a Morgan County teen who died in a car accident last fall. The benefit event, “Shoot For Seth,” will be held at Old Hudson Plantation in Sparta. Seth Stapleton…
It’s challenging enough to kill a public-land buck, but when you do it with a bow, while self-filming your hunt, on the Chattahoochee National Forest—an area not known for a lot of deer—it’s downright impressive. GON freelance writer Hunter Galloway, 17, of Dallas, accomplished this newsworthy task on Saturday morning, Oct. 1 while hunting a newly…
A series of upcoming U.S. Forest Service meetings will determine whether or not parts of the Chattahoochee National Forest (CNF) will receive much needed habitat management. Proper timber management would boost and stabilize animal and bird populations, including deer and turkey, which have been impacted by a “hands-off” approach championed by environmental groups who want no timber…
Whitetails Unlimited awarded the Jackson County 4-H archery team a $1,000 grant at the group’s inaugural Jackson County Chapter banquet on Sept. 22. Whitetails Unlimited is a national non-profit organization dedicated to educating hunters, preserving habitats and aiding shooting sports across the country. “About 50 percent of every net dollar raised goes back into whatever we put it…
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