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If your sights are set on big game hunting, go to the next level with our collection of big game hunting videos and articles. Made to inform and inspire your adventure of a lifetime, you’ll hear firsthand from the masters of high-altitude achievement, and begin your quest toward becoming a stronger & better-prepared big game hunter.

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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.

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The “Hit List”

Like most aspects of managing wildlife, having a plan will help you to make smart, accurate assessments. Herd management decisions can often have the biggest impact on the amount and size of the bucks you have to hunt. Killing the right deer and the correct amount of specific deer will have a huge impact on the density, buck to doe ratio and age structure of a herd.

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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,

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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

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Plan Your Stand Approach

Even if you have the best spot in the world, if you alert whitetails to your presence before you get there, it really doesn’t matter. Stand approach is an often overlooked aspect of the hunt. You must get to your ambush site without alerting any animals. Obviously wind direction and thermal current have to be considered, but masking your sounds and making sure you’re not seen are equally important. There are many strategies that can

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Harold Knight's Discovery of the EZ Grunter Call for Deer

Seventy-two-year-old Harold Knight and 70-year-old David Hale created one of the most successful game call companies in the nation when they founded Knight and Hale Game Calls. Early in their careers they became part of Mossy Oak and have been in the Mossy Oak family for 28 years.

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Elk Calling Basics

Mossy Oak ProStaff member Parrey Cremeans go over the elk calling basics. In this video Parrey lays out the groundwork for elk calling.

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Why Marshall Johnson Is So Involved with the Mule Deer Foundation

The mule deer is the only big game species in North America that is declining. Many people, especially in the East, never think about mule deer, and they're probably not aware of the declining populations we've had out here in the West, especially in the Northwest.

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Using Scent to Lure Deer

Discover how to use deer scents and lures at Mossy Oak. Find out why the deer's scent is a tool that you should have with you always to use when needed.

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Marshall Johnson’s Favorite Hunting Memory

Often I do use ATVs to get to where I want to start hunting. Most of the time, I spot-and-stalk hunt, and I really prefer to hike rather than ride. I enjoy teaching my sons to track, read mule deer sign and look for places that mule deer are most likely to be.

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How Marshall Johnson Got to Work at the Mule Deer Foundation

I started applying for jobs in North Dakota. I went online to see when the mule deer’s chapter meetings would be held and saw a post for job opportunities, saying the Mule Deer Foundation wanted to hire someone to head up the chapters in Montana and North Dakota. I showed the post to my wife, and she said, “Honey, you have to apply for that job. You’ve always wanted to work in the hunting industry.”

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Why Marshall Johnson Hunts Mule Deer

For the last 6 years, Mossy Oak Pro Marshall Johnson of Billings, Montana, has been the regional director of the Mule Deer Foundation for Montana and North Dakota. He primarily hunts in Montana and North Dakota. But Johnson is not a one-trick pony. Besides mule deer, he also hunts whitetails, elk, antelopes, turkeys, pheasants, grouse and partridge. “If I ever draw a tag, I’ll hunt mountain goats, big horns, buffaloes and moose,” Johnson says.

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Bubba Blade Joins Mossy Oak and NWTF to Introduce the Turkinator™ Knife

Bubba Blade worked hand in hand with hunters and the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) to design the perfect knife, the Turkinator. The Turkinator is the ultimate boning knife for any type of fowl or game.

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Wendy Lacoss-Drake’s First Bull Elk with a Bow

We were hunting near Lima, Montana. We had stayed at a friend’s house the night before our hunt. We went out early the next morning and set up our wall tent. Then we started scouting, and we heard some bulls bugling. We’d been successful hunting this area before, but we couldn’t believe how lucky we were to find these bulls on the first day of the hunt. When we got close enough to see them

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[VIDEO] Parrey Cremeans Talks Mountain Country

Mossy Oak ProStaff member Parrey Cremeans talks bout the new Mossy Oak pattern, Mountain Country. Parrey talks about how this pattern is better than other patterns available.

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