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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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Get Your Gobbler This Season

Bucky Hauser of Virginia is a member of Mossy Oak’s Pro Staff and has been hunting turkeys for 25 years. This week we asked Bucky to give us five tips that will help us take turkeys this season.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Mark Owen Explains the Future of Trophy Deer Hunting In Ohio

In the State of Ohio, this buck scores as the number two archery buck ever taken. On the Pope and Young measuring system, my buck should score either in the top 15 or top 10 bucks ever harvested with a compound bow.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

NEW Avian-X Feeder Hen Decoy

The new Avian-X Feeder Hen decoy for 2014 has many of the same lifelike features as the previous Avian-X decoys we have reviewed such as "No-Flake" paint scheme, true-to-life body posture, incredible feather detailing and realistic eyes. Crafted from rugged Dura-Rubber, the LCD folds tightly and fits easily into a turkey vest, yet won't crease or dent like earlier folding decoys. Avian-X also provides a storage bag with the Feeder Hen that you can use

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How Mark Owen Took His Ohio Bow Buck That Scored 256

I believe this buck had lived his entire life in that 90-acre woodlot between the two fields, because no one else in the county ever had seen this deer. All the property around this spot was corn fields and bean fields. So, these deer that I was seeing on the trail camera really didn’t have any close-by cover where they could hide in – other than this woodlot. The buck had everything he needed –

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Mossy Oak ProStaffers Finish in Top 5 at NWTF Calling Contest

Mossy Oak congratulates ProStaffers Matt Van Cise, Billy Yargus and Shane Hendershot for their top finishes in the 2014 NWTF Grand National Turkey Calling Contest Senior Division.

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How Mark Owen Got to the Stand in the Dark without Spooking the Huge Ohio Buck

For 8 days, from the time I had permission to hunt the big buck, until the day I climbed into the tree stand, I hardly ate. I had butterflies in my stomach the entire week. I really didn’t realize I wasn’t eating. All I could think about was trying to use my mental powers to make sure that buck would come in on opening day. Too, I was thinking how I would walk into the

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Mark Owen’s Dream Comes True When He Hunts a Monster Ohio Bow Buck

That was on September 21, one week before the season opened when the landowner told me he wanted me to hunt the first day of bow season and have the first chance at this buck. The 21st held a lot of meaning for me, because my father, Jim Owen, passed away at the age of 62 on April 21 from a massive heart attack. He was an outdoorsman, a life-long trapper and a coon and

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The 256-inch Dream Season Buck

The story of how he found the deer, how he got permission to take the deer, and the agony of his defeat before the thrill of his victory makes this story unusual, exciting and a dream come true. This week Owen gives us the secrets of finding big bucks and getting permission to hunt them, as well as the techniques he used to pinpoint when and where that buck would appear, and the way he

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Trent Cole of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles Searches for an Opportunity to Take His First Bull Bow Elk

I’m not only a professional football player. I am a professional hunter too, and I take both sports very seriously. As a professional football player in the NFL, football requires my best 365 days per year. As a professional hunter, hunting takes up 365 days per year also. So, when I am not playing football, I want to be in the outdoors. I love being in the outdoors and enjoying what God has given us

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Judging Your Hunt’s Success

That particular trip out West goes down as one of my best trips even though I didn’t tag an animal. So always try to keep things in perspective when you travel out of state on a hunt. Try to always look at the trip as the adventure; tagging an animal is the cherry on top.

Big Game, Predator, Mossy Oak

Olympian Todd Lodwick and His Best Elk Hunt

I was lucky enough to go to New Mexico and hunt with Ralph Ramos. I was fortunate to draw a tag in a unit that was known to have some big bull elk. We saw a lot of bull elks on this hunt, and I passed up some really nice bulls. Ralph is such a great caller that we had elk all around us during most of the hunt. I learned many elk-hunting skills from

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QDMA Offers Student Scholarships to Attend Deer Steward Courses

The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) will award deserving students with scholarships to attend a Deer Steward course in 2014. Applications will be accepted from high school juniors and seniors or college students who are interested in a career in wildlife management.

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Chris Kirby Explains How to Hunt the Turkey That Refuses to Come in to Gun Range

Often when you’re calling to a turkey, he may stop 50 - 60 yards away from you and not come in, although he continues to gobble. You need to quit calling, because that gobbler expects to see a hen. When he comes into an area and thinks he should see a hen and doesn’t see a hen, he gets really suspicious. Many times, when you quit calling, the gobbler will come in silently to you,

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Chris Kirby Tells How to Take the Turkey That Gobbles and Walks Away

My best suggestion for taking turkeys that gobble and then walks away is to get close enough to throw a hand grenade to them. Remember this to always help you in turkey hunting: When you’re not in the woods, many events are happening.

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Chris Kirby – How to Hunt Hushed Mouth Turkeys at the First of the Season

If you have done a sufficient job of scouting your turkeys, you should know where they are, and when they will be there, even if they don’t gobble. I really believe that scouting is far more important than calling, even though I make turkey calls.

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