Deer

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.

Filter

Bucky Hauser’s Big Canada Bow Buck

Every morning while in Canada, I walked those 1-1/2-miles from where I was dropped off to my stand in below-zero weather. One morning a fog came in, and the temperature was so cold that everything that the wet fog touched turned to ice. My bow and all my outer clothing were covered in ice crystals. As I walked to my stand, I could hear deer get up out of their beds in the darkness. The

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Bucky Hauser’s 2015 Big Buck’s Moment Of Truth

Each day when I get to my stand, whether I'm hunting in the morning or the afternoon, I use my range finder to determine the range I am from trees, stumps and bushes that I think a buck may pass by that are within bow range of my stand. So, when this buck stepped out from behind the brush pile, he stepped right in front of a stump I had ranged at 30 yards.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Bucky Hauser Explains Trophy Deer Hunting

Bucky Hauser from Claudville, Virginia, has been a Mossy Oak Pro Staffer for 9 years but has been wearing Mossy Oak, since the company began in 1986. “My favorite pattern is Mossy Oak Treestand. I like it because it’s an open pattern. When deer season starts in our area, all the leaves are off the trees, and I primarily bowhunt.”

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Tommy Nails’ Buddy Takes a 172-Non-Typical Buck

The first lease that I ever got to hunt deer on, I set-out trail cameras on the property. I had pictures from the summer months of a big, non-typical deer. Also I had pictures of the buck I took that scored 164. The following year, I put one of my buddies on this farm. On opening day of shotgun season, he took that non-typical buck I had pictures that had been taken the year before,

Big Game, Deer, Firearm

Taking a 191-Inch Buck with Tommy Nails

I get just as much enjoyment from checking trail cameras and doing trail-camera surveys as I do hunting deer. I didn’t get this particular farm to hunt where I took a huge 191-inch buck until September, 2011. As soon as I got the farm, I put out trail cameras. I placed a lock-on stand and a trail camera close to a scrape on this new property. I didn’t go back to this stand or the

Big Game, Deer, Bow

End-of-the-Season Iowa Deer Hunting

On a perfect year for late-season hunting, I like for the outside temperature to be a high of 32, lows between 13 to 19 degrees at night, and a 3-to-4 inch deep snow on the ground. When the snow is at about that level, the food in the crop fields is almost gone. Under those conditions, I see a lot more activity on my Mossy Oak BioLogic clover field. The deer will come into the

Big Game, Deer, BioLogic, Mossy Oak

How to Use Deer Drives to Take More Deer

Deer drives here in Iowa remind me of the old days when we held deer drives in Mississippi. The difference is that in Mississippi, we used dogs and drivers to try and move the deer out of heavy cover. But here in Iowa, a deer drive is only made up of hunters walking through thickets and making noise, attempting to spook the deer out of their bedding sites.

Big Game, Deer, BioLogic, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Hunting Deer in Iowa with Tommy Nails

Tommy Nails of Milton, Iowa, is originally from Corinth, Mississippi, and grew up hunting deer and turkeys in Mississippi. He’s been hunting deer for 30 years. He moved to Iowa about 7 years ago but still travels back and forth to Mississippi during hunting season. After deer hunting Iowa for the first time, his dream was to live there, so he could hunt those big northern deer.

Big Game, Deer, BioLogic

All Deer Hunters Need to Read This

Today’s whitetail managers know what an important role food plots play in the drive towards a healthy herd and bucks with bigger antlers. Food plots can transform deer management, even on small tracts, and make your hunting dreams come true, but fewer understand why. What’s the big difference between food plots and their native vegetation? Or, why couldn’t supplemental feeding have the same impact?

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

3 Tips for Seeing and Harvesting Bigger Bucks

Most hunters want to see more and bigger bucks on their hunting property. Some believe it will take a long time and be too much work so they never even try. In fact, it really doesn’t take that much effort to see noticeable results and as far as time, remember it normally takes four years for a buck to produce a trophy caliber “crown.” With a small amount of planning and a little patience, these

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Two Most Important Tools for Harvesting Mature Bucks On Small Properties

I had about 50 pictures of the buck I took that scored 142. From the trail-camera pictures I’d learned what day, what time of day and what direction a big buck came from, used to cross our property and then left. Probably, the most-useful information I get from my trail cameras is the pictures I get after the season. They tell me which bucks have survived the hunting season, and the bucks I should have

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak

How to Set Up Your Property to Take Nonresident Bucks

We are absolutely trail camera crazy. My mother says that I have a trail camera or a tree stand on every tree on the farm, and we have pictures of bucks for several consecutive years. That’s how we know that these three properties we hunt in Missouri are travel corridors, and bucks aren’t setting up residence on these three properties.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, How-To, Mossy Oak

How to Set Up Little Properties to Take Big Bucks

One of the things I've learned about hunting small properties is that when you arrow a buck on a small property, you don’t want him to travel off the land where you’ve shot him. Most of the time, if I don’t see a deer fall after the shot, I’ll back out and give the deer time to lie down. I might not go look for him until that night or the next morning, to keep

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, How-To, Mossy Oak, Bow

2 Best Tactics for Taking a Late Season Buck

The flurry of peak-rut may be over but any sign of a receptive doe and bucks can display vulnerable rut behavior again. On the other hand, after most of the does have been bred, a buck’s need to survive the upcoming winter makes them slaves to their stomach. The two angles below can be your best bets for connecting with a late season buck – which one will work best can be clarified with a

Big Game, Deer, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Norton’s Kansas Whitetail That Scored 156

Once the buck hit my scent trail, he stopped but wasn’t spooked. He turned away from it, walked back south, jumped the fence and walked out into the Brushy 40, coming toward me on the upwind side of my stand. When he was at about 15 yards, I grunted and stopped him. I came to full draw, released the arrow and heard that crack you often hear when a broadhead enters a buck.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak