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Parrish Elliott Tells the Secrets to Small Property Deer Management

I love to deer hunt, and I’m primarily a small plot hunter. There’s 220 acres of hardwoods that never has been clear-cut that’s adjacent to my family’s farm. When I was growing up if we saw a deer, we shot the deer, because we never had deer on our property way back then. Today, thanks to the efforts of Tennessee’s Department of Conservation and the tremendous amount of education available for the deer hunter, we’ve

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Managing Small Properties for Deer

Mossy Oak ProStaff attends numerous events to provide information on gun safety, how to keep deer on a small property and other activities. Learn more here.

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Quick Tactics for Lack of Preparation

October is here and we are all fired up to get into the woods and for some hunters, you have been hunting since September 1. We all wait for this time of year with great expectations as a function of all the hard work preparing for deer season. In the event you have not had time to do a lot of preparation, what are some quick tactics to consider for a chance to harvest a

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THUG Justin Eakins’ Favorite Deer Hunt

I don’t know if I can tell you about the hunt I had the most fun on, but I can tell you about the hunter with whom I’ve had the most fun. Some of the most fun hunts I’ve been on are when I’ve taken my daughter Katie with me. I enjoy hunting with children, because they’re really special.

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Justin Eakins on Bucks You Want To Take

We provide a guide for every two hunters. We try and put our hunters in areas where chances of taking a really-big buck are best. We also tell our clients, “You may not see many deer from the stand. But, if you spot a buck, he most likely will be a big buck. For the hunter who wants to see a lot of deer, I can put him on top of a hill overlooking a

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Stay Away from the Buck Until the Day You Plan to Take Him

with Justin Eakins We offer 5-day hunts, and during each 5-day hunt, a hunter can take a buck, a doe and a hog if they see one. When we’re talking about wildlife management, in many areas of the country, managing the hogs on your land has a direct effect on how many deer on the land you can hunt. The hogs compete with the deer for food, and deer just don’t like to be around

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5 Quick Tips for Killing Mature Bucks

“I got the day off work! I’m heading to the treestand.” So many hunters never even consider the wind direction, whether the thermal is in their favor, if they can approach their ambush location without being busted, and a dozen other details that will ultimately factor into their success.

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Justin Eakins on How to Manage Deer to Take Older Age Class Bucks

Preparing for deer season for me and our guides is a 365-day job each year. We scout all-year-long, and we’re always maintaining the lodge, planting food plots, developing better habitat, putting-out trail cameras, checking trail cameras, putting-out feeders, loading the feeders with corn, cutting paths to and from stands, moving stands as wind conditions change and working 16 to 18 hours a day, getting ready for deer season.

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DEER THUG Justin Eakins

Justin Eakins owns Canadian River Hilton Hunting Lodge in Crawford, Oklahoma, on the Canadian River. Justin hunts on 25,000 to 30,000 acres of land and has been one of the co-hosts on Mossy Oak’s “Deer T.H.U.G.S.” TV show for 6 years.

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Importance of Wearing a Safety Vest

Mossy Oak Pro-Staff member Parrish Elliot discusses the importance of wearing a safety vest. Parrish talks about why he made the switch and always hunts with a safety vest while hunting out of a tree stand.

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The Wind Is Your Master When Hunting Deer with Giles Island’s Jimmy Riley

A major mistake that hunters make is what I call the fudge factor. They’re walking into their stand, and they realize the wind is blowing from the wrong direction for them to hunt from the stand where they planned. So, they say to themselves, “I'm almost to the stand. If I go to another stand where I have a favorable wind, I can’t get there as early as I want to be in my stand.

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What Causes Hunters to Not Take Trophy Bucks with Giles Island’s Jimmy Riley

One of the reasons many hunters don’t harvest more trophy bucks is when they see those big-body deer with big antlers, they often go into panic mode and get stressed out. To help solve that problem, our hunters sit with their guides, and their guides are accustomed to seeing big deer. They try to help calm the hunter down, before he prepares for the shot. Another reason hunters stress out is they put way too

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Secrets for Producing Trophy Bucks Each Year with Giles Island’s Jimmy Riley

Let me explain from the beginning, taking trophy bucks whether they’re on Giles Island or anywhere else involves a lot of luck. The management system we have in place for our deer herd is the reason many of our hunters are so successful. First of all, we want to make sure we have plenty of deer for the hunters to hunt, and we want to be certain no one harvests our bucks, until they reach

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Early Season Whitetail Social Groups

Knowing the social structure of the herd during the time you intend to hunt is a key to getting calls, decoys or scent to work for you. In the “whitetail world” the time during early season (typically late August through October) is all about being social with other deer. However, they may not be social with the specific deer that you might think.

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Why Giles Island Has So Many Big Bucks and the One Named the Rock

We’ll harvest about 75 bucks per year off Giles Island. We classify our bucks as management bucks or trophy bucks – all shooter bucks. Less than half the bucks we take are management bucks. We define a management buck as an older-age-class buck with antlers that will score less than 125 on Boone and Crockett. We classify a trophy buck as a buck that scores more than 125.

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