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How to Improve Your Land for Wildlife

Jesse Raley is the marketing manager for Nativ Nurseries. Good wildlife management and increasing wildlife on the properties you own or hunt on involves much more than just planting food plots. To have more wildlife on your property, consider planting fruit trees and nut trees and various types of grasses and shrubs that produce food and cover for wildlife. By starting now, you can decide where and when to plant additional food and habitat for

Land Management, How-To, Nativ Nurseries

The Fantastic Food Plot

With proper liming, fertilizing, seed planting and weed control, a hunter can produce up to 10,000 pounds of digestible deer forage per food plot acre, per year---at a cost of between $250 to $500 per acre, according to agricultural experts. The average hardwoods acre, however, grows only 50 to 500 pounds of deer forage annually, including choice acorns from oaks.

Land Management, How-To

6 Tips for Drought Proofing your Food Plots

Many hunters have problems with keeping their food plots lush throughout the hunting season and especially in areas with little to no rainfall. Everyone will tell you about this or that method on how they “beat the drought” but here are a couple general rules/practices to making sure your food plot gets all of the possible potential to strive in times of a drought.

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

What speeds can your bow reach?

One piece of equipment that we begin to work on now is our bows. I like to get my bow set up for hunting whitetails and other big game early, so when I practice during the summer, I am dialed in for hunting season. Many people often wonder how to estimate a bow’s speed under different setups. By knowing the IBO/ATA specification of a bow, it is possible to get a decent estimation of how

Gear, How-To, Bow

Everything You Need to Know About Planting Food Plots

Do you plant food plots? Are you interested in planting food plots but not sure where to start? If so, this is your lucky day! The GameKeepers of Mossy Oak are offering a free download of their Food Plot Planting Guide. It’s 96 pages of useful information on how to platn and manage food plots to improve the hunting on your property. Whether you’re up north or down south, you’ll find these tips and techniques

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

6 Quick Tips for Treestand Placement

Many hunters have questions about treestand placement. "How high do you go in the tree?" is one of the most asked questions on the topic. Every situation is different and there aren't any rules where there aren't exceptions. However, there are some general practices that will help in most situations when placing a treestand.

How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Bow

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