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Hunting
As summer winds down and fall edges closer, hunters turn their eyes and attention to the upcoming hunting seasons. There are numerous items on the to-do list such as planting food plots, buying gear, practicing with your bow or gun, contacting landowners, and putting out stands, bait and cameras. What also needs to be on…
By Scott Barwick Susan Barwick and Heidi Rhodes co-own Kaleidoscope, a consignment shop for women in Thomasville. They have become best friends and have helped each other through life’s difficult situations. Their friendship is truly genuine. One day at the shop the topic of turkey hunting came up. Susan mentioned that she has hunted them…
I caught my first coyote in 2014. It took a 15-day trap line to do it, but I finally got the reward of removing a fawn killer from my hunting property. Since then, there have been others and more knowledge learned. Today, I still have volumes to learn about trapping the crafty coyote. They are…
Eli Mason often told his nephews, “Ya’ just don’t know how good something is until you don’t have it any more. Turkey season is like Christmas in April.” This stark reality hit the boys with both barrels two days after the Rendezvous. They never got a chance to apologize to Uncle Eli for fighting at…
The pasture sheens blue under an anemic moon, melding several hundred yards away into sky salted with straggly clouds. Stars wink here and there, chiding reminders, perhaps, that we should partake of this disparate panorama more often. There’s not a whisper of wind; the only sound is the breathing of our group of four following…
What started as an unlucky run-in with COVID quickly turned into a Ware County hunt of a lifetime for Joey Wildes, of Waycross. “My wife and I had been in quarantine for 10 days, and though we were blessed to not have more serious symptoms, I hadn’t felt like hunting since the diagnosis,” said Joey.…
There is still a final chapter to be written before we close the book on the 2021 Georgia turkey season. But with just a few weeks of hunting remaining before the season closes May 15, this is looking like another year when many hunters are scratching their heads and wondering what in the world is…
Round 1 of the 2021 GON Coyote Cull is off and rolling as hunters and trappers step up to the plate to kill song dogs in an effort to save fawns and turkey poults. Listed below are all the entries of those who have found success and taken a photo with their May 2021 issue…
Need a little added incentive to do some coyote control? GON’s 8th annual Coyote Cull features a prize pool that doubled to six chances to win, and we added a third month to enter. The total value of this year’s Coyote Cull prizes is more than $3,520! We do the Coyote Cull now because this…
The National Wild Turkey Federation’s Wild Turkey Records Program began in the fall of 1982 and has since been the authority on wild turkey records for anywhere wild turkeys are legally harvested, accumulating more than 27,000 registered birds. And with recent upgrades to the NWTF’s website, the program will now allow harvests to be submitted…
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