QDMA’s Field to Fork is a food-focused hunter recruitment program for adults from non-hunting backgrounds piloted in Athens, Georgia in 2016 by QDMA Hunting Heritage Programs Manager Hank Forester and Charles S. Evans, the Georgia R3 Coordinator with the Georgia Wildlife Federation. Hinging on a unique approach involving recruitment at a local farmer’s market, visitors were asked if they wanted to sample from a spread of venison sausage, grilled backstrap or venison jerky, and they were provided with a handout titled “Why Should You Hunt Deer?” They were then offered the chance to participate in a season-long mentored hunting program that would teach them how to hunt and acquire a wild, healthy, local, sustainable source of food on their own.
Everyone that hunts whitetails has had at least one experience with a giant. We all remember at least one deer that stays with us - that keeps us up at night... leaves us with memories so clear that even decades later we can still recall exactly what they look like.
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Watch a story that runs deep in the blood for a deer hunting family in Georgia.
This GameKeeper Scope Film explores the details of a decade long study by Texas A and M into the effects of culling on free range white tailed deer genetics.See the only known high speed footage of aerial deer captures and understand the methodology and results of this first of its kind study.
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