Hollis Land took his grandson, Dixon, on a hunting trip in Gibson on Oct. 25. It was Hollis' 55th birthday. Dixon, 6, bagged a six-point buck.

Monday: The CSRA Fly Fishers will meet at 7 p.m. at the Club House of the River Island Community in Evans.

Greenbrier High School student Jesse Patterson, 16, shows off this unbelievably wide 10-pointer taken in Burke County.

TUESDAY: The Sierra Club will hold its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Walton Way Extension.

GLENVILLE, N.Y. --- Covered in his old forest camouflage, Steve Balser proved he's nearly invisible to humans. His hunting partner walked within 25 feet and didn't see him.

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TODAY: Pinetucky Gun Club will hold an ATA Trap Shoot at 10 a.m. There will be three events including singles, handicap & doubles. Cost is $21 plus fees per event.

Tuesday: The S.C. Department of Natural Resources Waterfowl Advisory Committee will hold a listening session to allow waterfowlers to express opinions about the management and hunting of waterfowl.

They didn't leave many signs that they had been here, those who lived along the coast from the Georgia barrier islands down to the St. John's River.

MONDAY: The CSRA Fly Fishers will meet at 7 p.m. at the Club House of the River Island Community, off Blackstone Camp Road in Evans. Charlie Breithaupt, Chairman of the Georgia State Council of Trout Unlimited will speak on The Path Forward for Local TU Chapters. Visitors are welcome. More information can be found at www.csraflyfishers.org.

WASHINGTON --- Go figure: Food makers processed more peanuts over the past year than nearly any other time on record despite a national salmonella outbreak blamed for killing nine people and scaring consumers away from peanut products for months.

It is finally that time of the year again for Georgia hunters. Firearms deer season opens Saturday and lasts through Jan. 1 in the Northern Zone and through Jan. 15 in the Southern Zone.