Category: Hunting

December 12, 2001 — Ranger Mitch Oliver looked tired. His eyes already showed the wear of a full day’s work. And we still had a long night ahead of us. “There are days when you might work four or five hours,” said Oliver, 26, of Buford. “And there are days …

February 6, 2001 — Seven-year-old Joshua Turner likes to ride his dirt bike. He likes to play Nintendo, too. And basketball and soccer and baseball. Little Joshua sounds like a typical second-grader — until he opens up his briefcase. That’s when he starts to sound like a turkey. Joshua is …

January 30, 2001 — It was just a squirrel. That’s what I keep trying to tell myself. But when that rodent ran toward me, it stirred something. My heart quickened. My palms became sweaty. It was just a squirrel, I know. And I realize the hawk was to do all …

January 16, 2001 — The scene was quite peaceful, actually. A luminous moon brightened an otherwise pitch-black, early-morning sky. Its reflection made the pond’s surface sparkle, and illuminated silhouettes of leafless trees lining the water’s banks. It was cold and quiet — save for the constant mechanical hum coming from …

February 15, 2000 — The squirrels in my front yard scurried out of my path a bit quicker than normal Saturday morning. Perhaps they knew what I was up to. I was on my way to Sandy Cross, Ga. a tiny town east of Athens in Oglethorpe County. I was …

March 30, 1999 — “Dan, did you ever think last summer that in March you’d be in a truck riding down a road in Georgia listening to one fanatic preacher and one fanatic turkey hunter talk to you at five o’ clock in the morning?” asked Tim Strickland, the particularly …

February 2, 1999 — Three shots from Jason Brown’s 12-guage shotgun barked through the morning haze. The blasts, from somewhere in the thick briers surrounding me, were startling — and for a moment halted the caterwauling of the hunting beagles tracking the targeted rabbit’s scent. “Do you think he got …