GEORGIA — Saturday marked the start of Georgia’s statewide deer hunting season. “We are shaping up for a fantastic deer season,” Charlie Killmaster, state deer biologist for the Georgia Department of ...

GEORGIA — Saturday marked the start of Georgia’s statewide deer hunting season. “We are shaping up for a fantastic deer season,” Charlie Killmaster, state deer biologist for the Georgia Department of ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Georgia’s statewide deer firearms season opens this weekend. Wildlife officials are asking them to be on alert for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a fatal illness ...

GEORGIA (WALB) - Georgia’s deer firearm season is nearly here. Licensed hunters can harvest deer with firearms on Saturday, Oct. 18. The 2025-2026 deer season ends for most counties on Jan. 11, 2026.

“We are shaping up for a fantastic deer season,” Charlie Killmaster, state deer biologist for the Wildlife Resources Division, said in a news release. “Hunter success has increased across much of the ...

Every fall, Georgia’s forests stir with primal energy. That’s when 1.2 million white-tailed deer across the state take part in the rut, or mating season. During this time, bucks abandon their usual ...

ATLANTA — Georgia wildlife officials on Monday presented their strategy for mitigating the so-called "zombie deer" disease known as chronic wasting disease (CWD), following the first-ever positive ...

Changes could be looming for dog hunters in South Carolina. A recent stakeholders’ group has convened after debating the subject of hunting deer with dogs, and according to South Carolina Department ...

In the fall of 2013, Aaron Bumgarner bought 150 acres in Southampton County with the idea of having a place of his own to hunt in one of Virginia’s top deer areas. It wasn’t long before he said he ...