Deer hunting

Katie and Jon Armour have renamed Nature's Harvest to Full Draw Processing. The processor plans to open this upcoming deer season. (Photo Submitted)

Nature’s Harvest sold, to open for deer season

Finley Millwood

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Growing up hunting with her dad prepared Katie Armour for her new adventure: owning a processing business. Armour, 41, and her husband, Jon, who is 43, closed on Nature’s Harvest at the end of March. The couple decided to rename the business to Full Draw Processing.

Bar graph showing deer harvest numbers from 2024 and 2025

Harvested deer numbers drop this season

Sydney Shankman

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Oglethorpe County wasn’t among the top counties in Georgia for total deer harvested for the first time in five years. Game warden Phillip Nelson has experienced 24 deer seasons in Oglethorpe County, but hasn’t seen a year quite like 2025.

Lucas (from left), Stetson and Brooke Holcombe stand with their two catahoula leopard dogs, Delta Dawn (left) and Boone (right), at the UGA Intramural Fields last month. The Holcombes, who live in Winterville, have started a hunting business around their dogs. (Photo/Jesse Wood)

Boone the one-of-a-kind dog: Family’s best friend provides legacy of hunting, love and entrepreneurship

Jesse Wood

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Deer blood in dog kibble is part of the process of turning a puppy into a tracking dog, but Boone, a catahoula leopard dog, didn’t need it. When Boone joined Brooke Holcombe’s life in 2019, he was meant to be a companion, at most a guard dog.