Hey there everyone. Just a complete newbie here trying to figure out how to do this hunting thing.
I never had anyone to teach me how to hunt, don't know anyone who ever has, and don't generally meet anyone remotely interested in it here in metro Atlanta.
I'm in my mid thirties, work in video production (producing live broadcasts, vodcasts, short films, etc), and am a part-time adviser for a state university student media department. Needless to say, I don't meet a lot of avid hunters or outdoors-men in my line of work. Still, I love the outdoors and am stubbornly pushing forward head-first as I try to learn the outdoor skills that I feel like I should have already learned long ago.
I've taken a hunter safety course (in which they didn't really give much information, and passed everyone for free anyway) and done a lot of research online, but that's as far as I've gotten.
I'm working on my marksmanship now and hoping to go on my first hunt next year, probably around September of 2020. I'm interested in hunting Deer and Hog in the north Georgia WMA's (Chattahoochee, Swallow Creek, Warwoman, etc..), but the DNR websites make it so hard to learn if you don't already know what to look for. It all seems pretty overwhelming to figure out, and questions that are probably simple/obvious to you all seem almost impossible to answer for me. Embarrassingly, something as simple as where to leave my car while on a WMA is impossible to figure out (along with about a billion other questions), and it's frustrating me.
Still, I'm dedicated to figuring this thing out, and I hope you all will put up with my stupid questions while I go through the painful process of putting all these pieces together over the next year -_____-
I never had anyone to teach me how to hunt, don't know anyone who ever has, and don't generally meet anyone remotely interested in it here in metro Atlanta.
I'm in my mid thirties, work in video production (producing live broadcasts, vodcasts, short films, etc), and am a part-time adviser for a state university student media department. Needless to say, I don't meet a lot of avid hunters or outdoors-men in my line of work. Still, I love the outdoors and am stubbornly pushing forward head-first as I try to learn the outdoor skills that I feel like I should have already learned long ago.
I've taken a hunter safety course (in which they didn't really give much information, and passed everyone for free anyway) and done a lot of research online, but that's as far as I've gotten.
I'm working on my marksmanship now and hoping to go on my first hunt next year, probably around September of 2020. I'm interested in hunting Deer and Hog in the north Georgia WMA's (Chattahoochee, Swallow Creek, Warwoman, etc..), but the DNR websites make it so hard to learn if you don't already know what to look for. It all seems pretty overwhelming to figure out, and questions that are probably simple/obvious to you all seem almost impossible to answer for me. Embarrassingly, something as simple as where to leave my car while on a WMA is impossible to figure out (along with about a billion other questions), and it's frustrating me.
Still, I'm dedicated to figuring this thing out, and I hope you all will put up with my stupid questions while I go through the painful process of putting all these pieces together over the next year -_____-