Back in the Game (Country)

By Albany Herald News

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July 31, 2016

Over the years Albany’s Game Country has manufactured dozens of different types and sizes of deer and animal feeders like this one. The company was recently purchased by feeder fan Terry Leggett who hopes to once again turn it into a thriving business. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

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A new owner is working to revitalize a long-time Albany business.

In addition to making deer feeder mechanisms Game Country also manufactures feed shoots and catchers like this one. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

Terry Leggett, the new owner of Albany’s Game Country USA, displays one of the deer feeders that helped make them, at one time, one of the most popular feeders in the country. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

Long time Game Country employee Larry Sellers puts together the electronic control boards that go inside the company’s deer feeders. Sellers, who has worked for Game Country since it was started by founders Bill and Arnette Sanders in 1992, has renewed excitement about the Albany company’s future under its new owner Terry Leggett. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

During the company’s heydey during the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, these Game Country work stations were filled with technicians building the control boards that operate the compay’s deer feeders. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

Several Game Country Day II deer feeders wait patiently at the company’s Albany headquarters to be purchased. The company was recently purchased by Texas hunter and CPA Terry Leggett who hopes to restore to the company to being one of the most popular makers of feeders in the country. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

New Game County USA owner Terry Leggett proudly displays the company’s Day II feeder, which he has long-believed is the best deer feeder on the market. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

At one time, in addition to its flagship deer feeders, Albany’s Game Country also sold remote camera systems used to take pictures of wild game. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

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