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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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Grow Bigger Bucks and Increase Fawn Survival

If you haven’t already done so, now is the time to get some warm season annuals planted for your deer herd. Bucks are in the antler growing process as well as packing on weight as they mature. Having a high protein food source this time of year is just as important for your doe as well.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Nicole Reeve Tells Us Change Is Coming

The 2014/2015 was a crazy year for Pat and me both. We went to Alberta. As you read last week, Pat took a really-nice Shiras moose there. I wasn’t able to go on some of the hunts that Pat went on this year, because I was expecting a new little one. I had to stay behind on some of the hunts, but I was able to do some really-cool hunts. I went to Montana elk

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak

I make no claims to be better at turkey hunting than the next guy and in reality I’m not. That’s why (for me anyway) when you pull off a zone 1 miracle it’s sweet. I’ve been hunting with many of the so called “best” turkey hunters in the nation and none of them kill or call in a longbeard on each and every hunt and would not claim too. I have had many hunts where

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Wounded Veteran Finds Another Chance at Life Outside

Marine Cpl. Christian Brown, of Mumford, Tenn., grew up in the outdoors and learned his earliest life lessons while following his father through the woods. Nature’s greatest rewards didn’t come to his attention, though, until he returned years later, missing his legs and looking for the person he had been.

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Pat Reeve and His Iowa Whitetail

In 2014, Nicole and I both drew Iowa late season muzzleloader whitetail deer tags for the southeastern zone of the state. We hunted out of Wingover Ranch, an area we’d hunted the previous year during the late muzzleloader season. I was fortunate enough then to take a whitetail buck that scored 180 points Boone & Crockett.

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Pat Reeve Takes a Big Canadian Whitetail in Alberta

My son Carson took three animals this year, and Nicole reminded me of how much fun we had on those hunts. We really enjoy hunting with our children, and those are probably the most-memorable hunts all year, every year.

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Reeve and His Hunt for the Shiras Moose

Nicole and I had a lot of great hunting opportunities in 2014, and several hunts really stood out in my mind. One of our most-memorable hunts was in Alberta, Canada, with Glenn Brown and Blue Bronna Outfitters. We were hunting in the mountains - basically the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The terrain was really steep like that you’d find when you were hunting sheep.But on this hunt, we were hoping to take Shiras moose from this

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Pat Reeve on His Most Memorable Hunts

Mossy Oak pros Pat Reeve and his wife Nicole have hosted “Driven with Pat and Nicole,” a TV show on the Outdoor Channel for the past 10 seasons. The biggest news from Pat and Nicole is that during the 2014-2015 season Nicole was with child.

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Pass It On: It All Comes Together

As I’ve mentioned in my other “Pass It On” articles, sharing time in the field with new hunters is a very rewarding experience. It’s a time to share your love and knowledge of the outdoors with them and make some wonderful memories in the process. However, there will come a time when you have to let them step out on their own. I think this is best done in controlled circumstances that give them some

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Want More Turkeys?

One of the most satisfying aspects in game management is maintaining a healthy crop of turkeys to hunt or bringing back a wild turkey population in an area where they have struggled in the past. A simple mistake we see made every year that can have a negative impact on your turkey numbers is the good old bush hog. After being on your property during the spring, you begin to see a lot of things

Big Game, Turkey, Conservation, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

How a Turkey Hunt Is Supposed to Happen But Doesn’t

So the moral of the story is: when you go turkey hunting, you never know what the turkey will do, even though you think you do. You never know what your turkey hunting partner will do, although you think you do. Also, you never really know what you’ll do, even though you think you do.

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What Turkey Hunting With Other People Means

We've talked some about what a turkey knows that the hunter doesn’t know, and what I know that the turkey doesn’t know. Another thing you can’t know is what your hunting partner or the person you're guiding will do any day you go turkey hunting.

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Turkeys Don’t Know They’re Teaching You about Turkey Hunting

I've been hunting turkeys all my life, and I feel comfortable that I know quite a bit about turkeys and turkey hunting. However, I’ve realized that the most-important thing I know about turkeys is that they teach me something different every day that I hunt them. They can’t read, they can’t watch television, and therefore they don’t know what they're supposed to do. One of the biggest mistakes that most veteran turkey hunters make is

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Bob Walker on What He Knows That Turkeys Don’t Know

I've watched hundreds of hunters miss turkeys. When the turkeys hear that big explosion and see pellets whizzing past their heads, they know the time has come to leave and to leave quickly. Those turkeys understand that. But I don’t think turkeys realize they’ve been able to escape, because the hunter hasn’t had his cheek up against the stock before he pulls the trigger.

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How To Get Your Gobbler This Season

Bob Walker of Livingston, Alabama, a Mossy Oak turkey pro, also is one of the hosts on the Mossy Oak “Turkey THUGS” TV show. Walker has been a turkey hunting guide at Bent Creek Lodge in Jachin, Ala., for more than 30 years and has hunted turkeys his entire life. Walker believes if you know what the turkey knows, then you can take more toms.

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