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November 25, 2009
HILARY HOGG WINS PICK EM CONTEST - FINAL RESULTS
After 13 weeks of upsets and unpredictable games, the Reporter’s annual Games
of the Week contest has come to an end. Hilary Hogg, an intern at the Reporter, is
this year’s champion. After a fierce rivalry, Sam Wu falls only a few games short of
the champion and takes second place. He may be somewhat bitter about losing to
his female employee, but Will Davis accepts third place with a smile. Graphic
Designer Denzil Hansford and Brad Tingle tie for fourth place after Brad made a
strong comeback towards the end of the unpredicatble season. O’Reilly’s Cliff
Johnson takes sixth and Jonah’s Bonnie Barker takes last place. The Reporter
would like to thank all of our players and sponsors this year for participating.
WEEK 13 WINNER
With only two missed picks, Jonathan Josey was the winner of the final week’s
pigskin picks. He will receive a $20 cash prize and a t-shirt from T-screens.
FINAL
RECORDS
WINNER!
Hilary Hogg Sam Wu
(95-35) (91-39)
Will Davis
(88-42)
Cliff Johnson Bonnie Barker
(85-45) (72-58)
Denzil Hansford
(87-43)
Brad Tingle
(87-43)
Monroe County Outdoors
That dog will hunt — turkeys
BY TERRY JOHNSON
I t is difficult to think
of Thanksgiving
dinner without pic
turing a large roast
ed turkey sitting on
a platter in the middle on
the dining room table sur
rounded with more food
than you and your family
could ever eat. More than
likely the mouth-watering
turkey was pur
chased at your
local grocery
store. However,
if there is a
turkey hunter in
the house, it
might have been
harvested in a
sun-dappled
hardwood draw
last spring.
In days long
past, the
turkey
served at the
festive holi
day might have found its
way to the table with the
help of a dog.
That’s right. I said a
dog. Now I’m not talking
about the family dog
whose only connection
with a turkey is gobbling
(no pun intended) up
those leftover scraps
scraps placed in its food
bowl after the family has
enjoyed a scrumptious
Thanksgiving dinner.
These dogs were dogs
trained to hunt turkeys.
Most Native American
tribes ate wild turkey.
They killed these birds in
a number of ways rang
ing from shooting them
with darts, arrows and
spears to trapping. In
some cases they even
used dogs to hunt
turkeys. One journal
entry written in
Jamestown in 1608 noted
that Indians kept cur
dogs that they used for
hunting turkeys and
other game.
Native Americans
taught the colonists how
to hunt turkeys. The
newcomers quickly
learned that most of the
turkey hunting
techniques
used by the
native hunters
took consider
able skill and
patience. As
might be
expected, many
colonial
hunters opted
to hunt
turkeys
the easi
est way
- with
dogs.
Soon turkeys were pur
sued with dogs for sport
as well as food. In
Louisiana, for example,
turkey hunting with dogs
was popular as early as
1724.
As settlers moved west
ward, they brought with
them the sport of hunt
ing turkeys with dogs. In
these wide open spaces,
greyhounds were the
dogs of choice. Teddy
Roosevelt, in a book pub
lished in 1885 titled,
“Hunting Trips of a
Ranchman,” wrote about
Californian and Texas
horsemen using grey
hounds to hunt a variety
of game including ante
lope, rabbit and wild
turkey.
In the early 1900s, in
Alabama and a number
of other states, using
dogs to hunt turkeys was
both legal and a popular
way to hunt the large
birds. In fact, throughout
the South hunting
turkeys with dogs in the
fall was considered to be
a southern tradition.
In the 1950s, Leigh
Perkins of the Orvis
Corporation, noted for its
fly fishing gear, wrote of
a fall turkey hunt in
Georgia in which they
used turkey dogs to both
flush the birds off the
roost and retrieve
wounded birds. Perkins
wrote that his Brittany
was able to
locate“winged” bird that
had traveled two miles.
The use of dogs to
locate wounded turkeys
was popular throughout
much of the 19th and
early 20th centuries. In
fact, John James
Audubon, in an 1840
journal entry, recorded
that hunters used dogs to
locate turkeys that would
never have been found by
hunters without their
aid.
Although the ability to
find a wounded bird was
considered a plus, what
early turkey hunters
prized most of all were
dogs that could silently
trail a flock of turkeys.
These dogs were taught
not to bark until they
flushed the flock. Turkey
dogs were also trained
not to bark, while a
hunter attempted to call
the scattered birds close
enough for a shot.
As you might imagine,
not all dogs make good
turkey dogs. While a
number of breeds have
been used for this task,
more often than not, the
best proved to be point
ers and setters.
In recent years, hunting
turkeys with dogs have
enjoyed a revival. There
is even an American
Turkey Hunting Dog
Association.
Out of the 44 states
that permit fall turkey
hunting, 30 allow
hunters to use dogs. Four
states, Nebraska, Utah,
Montana and Tennessee
even allow hunters to use
dogs during the spring
hunting season. Fall
turkey hunting and
using dogs to hunt
turkeys, however is ille
gal in Georgia.
As such, it is unlikely
that hunting a
Thanksgiving turkey
with a turkey dog will
become a tradition any
time soon. That’s fine
with me. I enjoy trying
to outwit a turkey on a
dazzling spring morning
all by myself. If I’m not
successful in bagging a
long-bearded gobbler, I
know I can always find a
turkey in my local gro
cery store and I don’t
need a dog to do it.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Terry Johnson is the
retired Program Manager
of the Georgia Nongame-
Endangered Wildlife
Program. He is currently
Executive Director of
TERN (The Nongame
Wildlife Section's Friends
Group) and conducts
wildlife research and sur
vey projects, presents pro-
Local TaeKwonDo schools host Warrior Weekend in Forsyth
Over one hundred martial artists from several states (14 martial arts schools) attended the annual Warrior Weekend hosted by
Linda Hensel’s TaeKwonDo Plus at Banks Stephens Middle School this Fall. Students trained from 9:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. with
one-hour sessions covering street sparring, sparring for self-defense, Brazilian Jiu Jitzu, free design forms to music, synchro
nized forms, extreme free design with gymnastics, foundational training, extreme board-breaking, and HanMuDo (wrist-locks and
throws). Hensel’s students aged from age 6 to 50+. Hensel said “I am incredibly proud of all of my students that trained so hard at
this event. I was worried that the six year olds might not make it past two hours. They all surprised me and are true warriors.” The
following Forsyth students participated in this event: Ava Adams, Libbie Adams, Noah Chumbley, Bryon Coleman, Jakob Cox,
Jared Cox, Glen Cunningham III, Cassie Hensel, Kyle Hensel, Brock Hulsey, AM Menefee, Darius Middleton, Ryan Mize, Aurora
Setzer, and Hugh Dorsey Sosebee III. The Forsyth Warriors are pictured with the other martial artists that attended.
grams and
writes about
wildlife.
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