Georgia is comprised of almost every kind of terrain. In the north, there are rugged mountains including the Blue Ridge and the Cohutta ranges, both of which can be extremely remote. In middle Georgia, it’s mostly agricultural with the exception of the Bond Swamp, which is as challenging as anything I have ever hunted. The Bond Swamp has every critter Georgia offers and lots of them. In the southern part of the state, it can be slash pine, open grassland and palmetto forests or swamps like the Okeefenokee, along with barrier islands like Cumberland.
Georgia is a unique state in many ways. Georgia offers a remarkable diversity in flora and fauna. For the hunter that means deer, wild hogs and turkey are to be found in abundance.
Hunting in Georgia offers one the opportunity to pursue deer, wild hogs, bear, turkey, grouse, pheasant, dove, rabbit, quail and raccoon. For me, deer and wild hog fit the bill for the amount of food harvested, hunting challenge and population control.
Georgia also has one of the longest hunting season calendars in the US, which means you will have time to hone your skills and harvest game, without the urgency of the restrictive hunting calendars in place in most other states. In some places, hog hunting is year round. As for deer hunting, that calender runs from mid-September to mid-or-late January.
That means you will be out in weather ranging from the low 90's to single digits. And as I was once told, there is no bad weather, only bad gear.
And it goes without saying that falls, weather, streams, rivers and lakes also present potentially life threatening situations.
Every sport carries risk. Hunting just carries a little more. But hunting in Georgia is worth the risk and the effort.
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