GTA Youth Field Trials Host A Record 43 Kids Over Christmas Break

The Georgia Trappers Association (GTA) hosted their ninth-annual Youth Field Trials event Dec. 30 to Jan. 1. This year’s gathering hosted a record 43 kids between the ages of seven and mid-teen. Kids and their parents were paired up with experienced trappers and spent two days on private properties learning to trap. Trap lines were…

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Trapping With A State Champion

As I watched Annabel Wilson walk up and down a woods road that led into a Jefferson County cut corn field, I knew exactly where I would put a dirt-hole set. “That little tuft of grass right there,” I whispered to Mike Wilson, Annabel’s dad. A minute later, the confident 20-year-old wildlife student at Abraham…

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My Best Hunts Were Never Planned

Today I hit 50. The half-century mark has caused me to reflect on what I’ve done—and haven’t done—in the way of hunting over the years. I’ve been to Iowa and killed a nice buck with my bow. I’ve shot an impala in South Africa and doves in Mexico. I’ve hunted all over this great state…

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Macon County’s Fiddler

Jennifer Fields has done what most hunters will never do after she killed a buck with baseball-bat bases that measured 7 5/8 inches. The 7 1/2-year-old 10-pointer was taken in Macon County on Nov. 15 and weighed 240 pounds. “I am still in shock that I shot his deer, a true deer of a lifetime,”…

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GON’s Trophy Room – January 2024

Since Georgia Outdoor News magazine started in 1987, we have continuously enjoyed sharing the accomplishments of others. Some months we’ll receive hundreds of pictures of happy hunters and anglers every year who just want to share their accomplishments. We are truly blessed that so many loyal Georgians think enough of GON to share with us about what they’ve accomplished.…

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Rate Your Deer Season & VOTES Survey

VOTES, which stands for Voice Of The Educated Sportsman, is a GON survey that has been around for more than two decades. A question on the survey each and every year is Rate Your Deer Season, which gives us county-specific ratings that can be compared to historical trends. We’d like to hear how your deer…

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Pumpkin Head Used To Kill Mature Georgia Whitetail

When it comes to killing a mature whitetail, sometimes you have to think outside the box. It certainly worked for Brent Purvis, of Fortson, when he took a 130-class Muscogee County buck during Week 3 of Truck-Buck. “It’s a hilarious hunt that may end up being a top-5 bow-kill in my county,” said Brent. The…

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Flat Sets For Coyotes

I looked down in the sand and there was exactly what I was looking for—a coyote track. The location of the track had the brainbox smoking. It was made along a hunt-club road at the end of a blowdown that had fallen across most of the road. There was no where for that song dog…

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IGFA Awards New Junior World Record Redfish To Brunswick Boy

Graham Lewis, a 10-year-old from Brunswick, recently caught a youth-division,world-record redfish from the surf on Saint Simons Island. The catch took place Sept. 24 and was just processed by the International Game Fish Association. The fished measured 105 cm (41.3 inches) to the fork. “A bunch of people at school have been asking me if I…

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