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Offline Sourdough

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What's there to hunt in Georgia?
« on: December 08, 2012, 12:25:33 PM »
Wife put in for a position in Georgia.  We may be leaving Alaska.  What's to hunt down there?  I've never been to Georgia except passing through.  Where is there to hunt near Ft Benning?  No, I don't fish.  If it's under 40lbs I'm not interested.
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Re: What's there to hunt in Georgia?
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2012, 12:49:17 PM »
Why we need to get you noodeling.
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Re: What's there to hunt in Georgia?
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2012, 12:55:10 PM »
Deer   down  here  arent   much  over  40  lbs.     Better  get  use  to  small   game   hunting. use to be good  Quail  hunting   around   Benning.   I   exagerate   about  the  deer  size  but  seriously   some  do  reach  200  lbs.  plus.
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Re: What's there to hunt in Georgia?
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2012, 01:29:11 PM »
I remember seeing dead Deer along the Georgia highway as I drove from Tennessee to Florida.

How about Coyotes and Hogs.
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Re: What's there to hunt in Georgia?
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2012, 02:11:49 PM »
Don't know about Benning area but I have hunted South Jawja for 15 years now.   We have ample supply of black bears, deer, turkey, dove, quail, coyotes and more hogs than we can kill.   Bear have a very short segmented season,  deer pretty much from September to January, turkey from March to May,   and hogs, and coyotes - year round with no limit. 
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Re: What's there to hunt in Georgia?
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2012, 02:30:40 PM »
Ft Benning is close to Alabama.


Lot of deer and turkeys in the Chattahoochee Valley.
Coyotes are everywhere. Hogs are spotty; there will be a lot in one place, two miles away there won't be any.


In Alabama:
Coyotes are year round, daylight only.
Hogs on private land, domestic or feral, are considered livestock and can be harvested all year. Seasons apply on management areas.
You can shoot 2 deer per day during the ~70 day season, but only 3 bucks, one must have 4 pts on one side.
Turkey is spring, shotgun, gobbler only. Limit is 3 or 5 (not sure, if I ever get one I will read my license).


Heard there are some good management areas in that part of Alabama, but most folks form clubs that lease land from timber companies  or blue-haired trust fund sisters. Club costs are typically $1000-1500 per year per person, based on 100 acres per member.


Dove hunting is THE upland sport here. Its a social event. Ideally you know a farmer that puts on a shoot. Pay hunts are typically ~$150 per half day. Quail hunting is mostly released birds on a guided hunt at a private preserve (~$400 per half day). Closest to Ft Benning would be Pat Dye's place (it has a name but everybody calls it Pat Dye's place).
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Re: What's there to hunt in Georgia?
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2013, 10:57:17 AM »
Sourdough, Ft. Benning is overrun with hogs, and for a while, (may still be), they were paying a bounty on pig tails.  If you have military ID, you can hunt there free, on thousands of acres.  The deer in Ga. are bigger than they once were, due to better management, but are no where near the size of northern deer.  They are still a challenge to hunt, if you hunt big bucks.
 
Coyotes have about overrun the state.  Do us all a favor and kill a few.  They are taking 7 out of 10 fawns in some areas.
 
There are managed areas for quail, and in South Ga. where there is still a lot of farming, a good many wild coveys.
 
Doves do fair down South, and we have a good many migrating geese and ducks.
 
In several S. Ga. counties, there are some large black bear, as well as in N. Ga.   They are few and far between in middle Ga. where I am, but you will occasionally see one or see sign.
 
We've also got an abundance of armored possums, (armadillo), and it would please a lot of folk if you could make them extinct.
 
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