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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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Explaining the Addiction

My wife has always been one of those people who will pretty much speak her mind, at least in matters concerning me. Once after a tough turkey hunt that required lots of driving to, walking and calling and then more driving back, I came back home mid-day and fell asleep in the middle of the den floor. I awoke still in full camo, hat still on and boots laced. Pam was running the vacuum, probably

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Day 4: Alex Rutledge Tells Us How to Hunt Henned-Up Gobblers

We’re trying to call in the hens. The boss hen will come in and run the other hen (you) off, because you’re talking to her boyfriend. As she comes to you, the other hens will follow her and so will the gobbler. That’s when you have to depend on your patience, your ability to sit still and your Mossy Oak camouflage, if you’re going to get this bird.

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Day 3: Alex Rutledge’s Secret of Taking Field Turkeys

The gobbler that seems like he should be the easiest one to take is the gobbler that struts and drums out in the middle of the field. You may see him out there every morning, but for some reason, you just can’t call him in to where you need him to go.

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Day 2: Alex Rutledge Explains That You Should Hunt the Turkey Rather Than Call Him

This secret to successful turkey hunting builds off the first secret, which is to find the turkey before the season and have multiple turkeys to hunt. Some days turkeys don’t gobble. On rainy, windy days, you can’t hear a turkey gobble from very far away. If a turkey has had any hunting pressure, he may not gobble but one time in the morning and not gobble again all day.

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Day 1: Five Big Secrets to Taking More Turkeys

One of the biggest mistakes that most turkey hunters make is they don’t hunt turkeys until the opening day of the season. If you hope to take a turkey on opening day or on any-other day you hunt turkeys, you need to know where the turkey is throughout the day.

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Day 5: How to Successfully Hunt Turkeys on Public Land with Mossy Oak’s Tracy Groves

Most turkey hunters start scouting for turkeys a week or two before the season begins, but I start 30-days before the season. I’m looking for the turkeys that are the farthest from the parking lot or any road. Those turkeys are the ones I plan to hunt on opening morning.

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Day 4: How to Successfully Hunt Turkeys on Public Land with Mossy Oak’s Tracy Groves

I go into the woods at first light and get to the highest point I can find. Then I listen for turkeys to gobble and use my compass to determine the direction from which the gobbling is coming. When daylight occurs, and the turkeys shut-up, I walk in the direction where I’ve heard the turkeys gobble and look for the nearest water to that spot.

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Day 3: How to Successfully Hunt Turkeys on Public Land with Mossy Oak’s Tracy Groves

Turkeys have three-different transitions they go through during turkey seasons, in most states. If you know what those transitions are, you’ll know what calls to use and when to use them.

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Wintertime Management Tips

Hopefully your trophies are at the taxidermist waiting to be mounted, your freezer is full, and you have obtained memories that will last you a lifetime. Most of the hunting seasons have been going on for sometime and are now winding down. All types of wildlife have had too much intrusion in their world and probably need a rest, but they are not the only ones who need a break.

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RHINO Gun Cases Introduces Thunderbolt Series of Chokes

RHINO Gun Cases Inc. is proud to introduce a new line of high end chokes, the Thunderbolt Series. The Thunderbolt Series offers Turkey Thug, Waterfowl, Dove/Pheasant and Predator.

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Day 2: How to Successfully Hunt Turkeys on Public Land with Mossy Oak’s Tracy Groves

Hunters educate turkeys to the fact that when they hear doors slam and owl hoots that more-than likely there’s a hunter in the woods. So, when I’m hunting public lands, I don’t use an owl hoot or a crow call.

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Day 1: Public Land Turkey Hunting

If you’re going to hunt turkeys on public lands, you’ve got to commit to hunt the turkey on his time, not on your time. Your best tool is patience. Public-land turkeys receive a lot of hunting pressure, and they don’t like it

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Day 5: Mossy Oak’s Man at Super Bowl XLVII

When you have a big longbearded gobbler coming to you, and you know within only a few seconds, you’ll have to make the shot, you must subdue your emotions, remember how you’ve trained for the shot and be ready to squeeze the trigger. Once the opportunity presents itself to take a trophy buck standing 20-yards from you, during bow season, you can’t let the emotions of buck fever take charge of your shot. You have

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Day 4: Mossy Oak’s Man at Super Bowl XLVII

When the Baltimore Ravens either kick off or set up for the kick return at the Super Bowl, look closely at number 37, Sean Considine. In that Ravens uniform playing the position of safety is Sean Considine, an avid turkey hunter, white-tailed deer hunter and member of the Mossy Oak ProStaff. “When I went to college at the University of Iowa, I discovered a wonderful flock of turkeys almost within the city limits of Iowa

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Game Plan Gear Over-and-Under 3-in-1 Pack System

The designers of the Over-and-Under clearly had the gun hunter and bowhunter in mind when they designed this pack system. There is so much versatility within the Over -and-Under pack. I was also impressed at just how comfortable this pack was during my 4-day Arizona mountain hunt. I had the pack on nearly all day and it was never bothersome to me.

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