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I Teach and Guide Turkey Hunters - Here’s Why

I'm a project supervisor for a construction company. My company is very understanding when I need to take off to go and teach. Now, teaching people to turkey hunt is far more important to me than the time I spend turkey hunting by myself. I'm often asked, “Where does this drive to educate the world on how, where, when and what to hunt turkeys with come from?” My response is that I learned to teach

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak

Philip Mailhiot Receives the Mentor of the Year Award

The greatest trophies a turkey hunter ever can take won’t be mounted on the wall, kept in a shoe box or put on display for all to see. The greatest trophy that a turkey hunter ever has is the memory of teaching others how to hunt and take turkeys. Philip Mailhiot of Westminster, Massachusetts, a Mossy Oak pro for 6 years, was the first person to ever be awarded the title of the National Wild

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak

Remembering How Brent Lafreniere’s Bowhunting Career for Deer Began

I started shooting a bow when I was very young and began hunting with a bow when I was 13. I’d gotten my hunting license when I was 12, so the first deer season when I was actually able to hunt with a bow was when I was 13. I took my first doe with a bow when I was 14 in 1998, and my first buck with a bow in 2001 when I was

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak, Bow

Brent Lafreniere’s Vermont Moose with a Bow

In Vermont has a lottery for moose tags. The person who draws the tag is the shooter, he can invite a second shooter to go with him, and they can pick a third person to be their guide. The guide doesn’t necessarily have to be a paid guide. I’ve been fortunate enough to go on four moose hunts either as a guide or as a shooter. Three of those hunts were unsuccessful, but I was

Big Game, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Bow

Understanding Brent Lafreniere’s Technique for Hunting Public Lands

I first started traveling to other states to hunt when I was in high school. My dad used to go to Pennsylvania with some friends of his to hunt Pennsylvania’s early bow season. A few years after he started going to Pennsylvania, he’d get me out of school on Thursday, we’d drive to Pennsylvania and bowhunt the rest of Thursday, Friday and Saturday. At that time, Pennsylvania’s early bow season would start when Vermont’s season

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak, Bow

Learning about Brent Lafreniere’s Biggest Vermont Buck

My biggest buck was an 8 pointer that weighed 176 pounds, which is a really big whitetail, and it was taken in Vermont in 2010. My Dad and I have 110 acres where we have permission to hunt. In Vermont, if the land isn’t posted and posted correctly, then anyone can hunt on it. We had talked to the landowner and had permission to hunt on this land where I took my biggest buck ever.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak

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