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What Factors Do You Use to Determine When to Hunt a Big Buck

Many factors determine when and where deer move - only one of which is the information found in a solunar table. I want to go into the woods anticipating that the buck I'm trying to take will come within bow range on the day I'm hunting. By thinking like that, I'm much more likely to see, hear or be aware of a big buck in my region. In other words, I can hunt more alertly

Big Game, Deer

Where to Find Big Bucks to Harvest with Gene Wensel

Two of the nation’s most legendary deer hunters in recent years are 72-year-old Gene and Barry Wensel from Iowa. Their webpage is titled Brothers of the Bow, because they are twin brothers, and they both deer hunt with bows. They’ve been in the Mossy Oak family almost as long as there’s been a Mossy Oak.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

30 Years of Mossy Oak: Harold Knight

I still believe that one of the best patterns that Mossy Oak has produced is Bottomland, and the fact that it is still in production today is a testament to that. Mossy Oak became a big part of our success in the outdoors industry when they sponsored our TV show in the early days. We wore Mossy Oak when we traveled, spoke, and participated in calling events, and we realized that more and more people

Mossy Oak

Harold Knight’s Worst Missed Turkey Ever

In the 1950s, turkey hunters were my heroes, because there weren’t many of them, and everyone knew that those few hunters who could take wild turkeys were some of the best woodsmen in our part of Kentucky. So when I was a boy, I’d go over to these older men’s houses and get them to tell me about turkey hunting. I was like a hungry dog begging for a bone. Every day after turkey season,

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak

Harold Knight Grew Up With a Bow and Arrows

When you hear the words Knight and Hale, you automatically think of two bowhunters from Cadiz, Kentucky, who founded the Knight & Hale Game Call Company. But what most people don’t know is that originally David Hale was a farmer, and Harold Knight was a barber. These two men grew up during the evolution of the sport of bowhunting. Today, both men have harvested numbers of Pope and Young and Boone and Crockett bucks with

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Harold Knight Uses His Fiddle Knowledge to Build a World Champion Goose Call

In the 1970s, I made a tube turkey call out of a plastic pill bottle with latex rubber over half of the bottle. I always had a deep passion and love of calling animals - any kind of animal. I was playing around with this pill bottle turkey call and got a goose sound out of it. So I bought thicker latex and began to work with the pill bottle to make a goose call,

Small Game, Waterfowl

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