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DEER SEASON, DONE RIGHT.

Before you head into the whitetail woods, browse our extensive collection of deer hunting videos and articles. For beginners and experts alike. From thrilling hunts to helpful hints, there’s always something to learn from watching the country’s top whitetail hunters ply their craft — and whole a lot to enjoy.

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Top 4 Tips for Treestand Placement

Many hunters have questions about treestand placement. 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.

Deer, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Check for Landscape Changes Before Deer Hunting

I have an old friend who lives near this WMA, and he told me that some type of tree bug had killed quite a few trees on this WMA, and those trees had fallen down. I want to check out those spots to make sure I can get to a place that I want to hunt, and I want to see how the deer are navigating through those downed-tree places.

Deer, Land Management, How-To

Use Your Ears When Scouting Deer

On the first day of deer season, I went with one of my buddies and his 10-year-old son to help this young boy try and take his first deer with a bow. He had been practicing all summer long, and he could shoot accurately out to 30 yards.

Deer, How-To, Bow

Hunters Provide Millions of Meals

Most hunters know that QDMA is among the nation’s premier conservation organizations, working every day to improve America’s deer hunting. What these same hunters might not realize, though, is that QDMA and its members have provided millions of nutritious meals to those Americans most in need.

Deer, Conservation, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News

Harvesting Does in Early Season Benefits the Herd and the Hunter

If you don’t remove a portion of the reproductive segment of your herd, once the herd reaches the carrying capacity of the land, your bucks and does can’t grow to their full potential each year. That’s the reason we encourage people to take does during bow season. Harvesting does at the beginning of bow season also helps the archer get more comfortable with having deer in close and making accurate shots.

Deer, How-To, Bow

Deer Hunting with the Wind

Let Mossy Oak show you the right way to go deer hunting on windy days. Check out tips and learn how to hunt in and with the wind successfully today!

Deer, How-To, Bow

Marsha Raley Hunts with Brenda Valentine

Since taking those first two deer with my bow, I’ve taken wild hogs, turkeys and more deer with my bow. Wild hogs are getting to be one of my favorite animals to shoot with a bow. But one of my favorite hunts of all time was in 2015 when I went on a hunt with Brenda Valentine, the First Lady of Hunting.

Deer, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Bowhunting Patience and Persistence Pays Off for Marsha Raley

The year after I took my first buck, I told my husband I wanted to learn how to shoot a bow and bowhunt for deer. So, I got a bow. All summer long, I shot that bow continuously. Then I planned to be ready to hunt during the fall.

Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Marsha Raley Learned How to Hunt on Her Own

Marsha Raley of Maynardville, Tennessee, has been on the Mossy Oak Pro Staff for 4 years. She is a bowhunter as well as a gun hunter. She was born into hunting as her dad and her stepdad both were avid hunters. “Before I could hunt with either of them, I’d wait at the door for one of them to come home to see what they had in the back of their trucks,” she said.

Deer, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Ideal Tree Stand Locations: Using Funnels

Whitetail travel from place to place using cover and terrain to their advantage. Learning to recognize the transition areas, access points, and travel corridors of whitetails is crucial to choosing your ambush location. In fact, if you choose the right funnel during the chase phase of the rut it can seem like “God just pulled the drain-plug on a sink full of deer.”

Deer, Mossy Oak, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Deer Hunting Off the Beaten Path

To consistently and successfully harvest deer, you have to do what few hunters will do and go where few hunters will go. If I walk a mile and cross three ridgetops to reach my hunting spot, I’ll rarely if ever see another hunter.

Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Hunting in Streamside Management Zones

During bow season in Alabama, I’m looking for good stands of oaks that are producing a good number of acorns. Often I’ll find those oak trees in Streamside Management Zones (SMZs are areas of forests adjacent to bodies of water like ponds, rivers, creeks and intermittent streams that serve as filter strips for surface water runoff.) between two different ages of stands of pine trees.

Deer, Turkey, Mossy Oak

Wildlife Biologists Can Help Hunters

One of the reasons that I believe the wildlife biologist who’s responsible for that WMA can tell you the best place to find an older-age-class buck is that hunters check in their deer and turkeys on the WMA and are supposed to tell the biologists where they’ve taken the animals or birds.

Deer, Turkey, Mossy Oak

Resources for Scouting Public Land

I’ve found that my cell phone GPS is much more convenient for me to carry than a designated hand-held GPS receiver. By scouting in the early season and choosing my tree stand sites, I often can reach my stand site without having to use my GPS.

Deer, Turkey, Mossy Oak

Tactics for Hunting Deer on Public Land in Alabama

Brandon Bobo, who works as a biologist for the National Wild Turkey Federation in the State of Alabama, is a member of Mossy Oak’s GameKeepers Pro Staff. He frequently hunts public land in Alabama and this week he is sharing tips with us on how he hunts public land.

Deer, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak, Bow