2020 Oglethorpe County

[Arrow3]

Terry Perry, owner of Firetower deer processing passed away last night .

 

[Steven037]

Terry Perry, owner of Firetower deer processing passed away last night .

He will surely be missed.

 

[Buford_Dawg]

Terry Perry, owner of Firetower deer processing passed away last night .

Goodness, hate to hear that. I got his cell programmed into my phone as he told me several years back to call him directly anytime I wanted to drop off a hog if FT was not open.

 

[ADDICTED2HUNTIN]

Dang I hate to hear that!

 

[Triple C]

Hate to hear it.

 

[Arrow3]

Sold a remington 770 in 270 yesterday and found a 7mm-08 Ruger American st sporting arms this afternoon. Somehow it followed me home ?

 

[Triple C]

Sold a remington 770 in 270 yesterday and found a 7mm-08 Ruger American st sporting arms this afternoon. Somehow it followed me home ?

I never have been much of a gun guy. Just lucked up when my grandson was 9 or 10 and I went into a gun store and told the guy I wanted a youth model gun for my grandson. He pulls a youth model 7mm-08 off the rack and I walk out with it. Grandson loves that darn thing! He's 16 now and has taken a few deer and hogs with it.

 

[Arrow3]

@Triple C I love guns.....and bows

 

[Todd E]

Friends, this place has bout kicked my rump. Mainly due to crazy weather. One more day to give it a whirl. Even ran into @hotamighty down here. Have coversed with him for years and outta nowhere meet him face to face.

 

[fredw]

Spent yesterday morning and this morning on the Oglethorpe lease.

Food plots are up and really looking great. Acorns, from both white and red oaks, litter the ground in our hardwood sections. Lots of buck activity on trail cams although much of it is still nocturnal.

Had a couple of visitors come by this morning. Thankful for younger, stronger backs and UTVs.

 

[mscamp]

Good mornings work there. Congrats Fred.

 

[Todd E]

Beautiful buck @fredw
Personally, I'm fond of the boar. Nice!!
Congrats

 

[Souhternhunter17]

Connected on a good one at 4:10 in Smithsonia today with dads 45-70! Glad my old man was there to help me drag him out!

 

[Todd E]

Great hunt there, @Souhternhunter17
Congrats

 

[hotamighty]

@Todd E, it was really good meeting you and your dad. I really enjoyed talking with yall. That place kicked my butt too! With all the sign I was finding everywhere I walked, I thought for sure it was gonna happen. Oh well, I guess thats why they call it hunting! I saw a few small bucks but nothing big enough to shoot. I will be saving my points to make another trip in a few years. I like the place even though I came home empty handed. At least I met some new friends! That alone was worth the trip!

 

[Triple C]

Great bucks @fredw and @southernhunter17!

Just got home from a weekend of misses and cruising bucks. I'm 0 for 2 with the trad bow on bucks this year. Missed at 8 yds Saturday morn. Bound and determined to make it happen with the recurve. So far...deer don't have much to worry about. Lots of deer and lots of bucks cruising this weekend. Headed back down Wednesday for a few days of the chasing phase.

The coolest part of my weekend was Saturday morn after I had just missed a funky racked buck I watched square off with a larger buck Friday afternoon. They went at it about 10 minutes in the middle of a food plot. Saturday morn I'm hunting down near the bottoms and here he comes cruising out of the bottoms. Walks right to me and turns quartering away. Draw...release...and watch arrow plow in to the ground right in front of his brisket. He pays it no attention and just meanders back to where he came. Nocked another but didn't want to attempt a shot at 20ish yds.

Maybe 10 minutes afterwards I hear what sounds like a mountain lion screaming above me. Freaked me out. I look up into a blue sky to see to my amazement, 4 bald eagles soaring over head! Could not believe it. 3 weeks ago, Brooks and i drove down to Big_Red's place and saw a bald eagle on hwy 77S eating on road kill. Never knew we had em in this area. Pretty dang cool to see em flying over.

@Todd E...come on back to Oglethorpe. Bucks are cruising!

 

[transfixer]

@Triple C probably 25yrs ago or so I saw a single bald eagle soaring over some short planted pines on the lease next to ours where we are now, I was amazed and shocked to say the least, when I got back home I called the DNR office and also called over at the GON offices, I don't remember which one told me what, but one basically said I must have been mistaken, and the other one acting like I was telling a story,, but I know what I saw back then ! They're around,, probably a lot more of them now than back then, but they were around back then also.

 

[Hughy]

I saw this one a few months ago here in Devils Pond. He was also standing in the road eating when I drove up on him. He had a huge wingspan. Biggest bird I’ve ever seen.

 

[Arrow3]

@hotamighty sorry you and Todd didn't connect with a good one at Flint river.

I'm drawed for the 2nd hunt Nov 12 thru 14th.

 

[Buford_Dawg]

Been a long weekend in OC for me, hunted Friday thru today, saw good deer activity most every hunt, I think I got skunked one hunt. We took another pig, 2 does and a pretty nice buck this weekend out of our camp. Several other missed opportunities. The cold weather this AM really had deer moving, but late in the AM. And we are seeing young bucks cruising and looking. And much more buck activity on Trail cams, still mostly at night, but they are starting to show up. Going back down Wednesday evening for another 4 day weekend