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Getting a little excited here biscuit. Deer season in Georgia opens October 16. Temperature today - 85 degrees. I'm hoping the bow hunters and primitives haven't disturbed too much in the woods.
I'm hunting all public land here this year. Any ideas? We have an anomaly here, just south of Augusta, known as a Carolina Bay. Seems a meteor blew down about a couple thousand years ago and left a big hole in the ground. Although it's called a bay, there's no water there to speak of...just a big dry swamp really. Gators, hogs, rattlers and copperheads. Also deer and turkey.
This past March was the first time the area was ever opened to hunting. Prior to that it was a bird watchers paradise. Anyway, I slammed a great tom turkey...26lbs, 1 7/8 spurs and a beard that dried at 11 1/4. He came out of the woods 100 yards from my doghouse blind and I thought santa claus had come to town. He was red down to his belly. I called him to within sixty yards and curiosity took care of the rest.
Needless to say, this is also the first deer season there as well. I'm just worried cause the bow hunters have signed in on two different Saturdays. (bow season here started September 13) But I do know that a few massive bucks lay back up in the swamp where folks don't like to go, so I'm going to give that a try.
I'll look forward to your wisdom on the public land question. It got a little rude out there during the turkey season, guys arguing and what not. I guess I got lucky just trying to stay away from the squabbling. I do know that those kind of areas should be hunted where other folks will not normally go. I'm open to any other advice out there though...