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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

Mossy Oak Nature's Menu Premium Dog Food

We've started feeding our dogs at Mossy Oak GameKeeper Kennels Nature's Menu Premium Dog Food. Nature's Menu is 26% protein and 14% fat, so our dogs have good energy levels, good coats and no allergies.

Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Mossy Oak Properties Network Celebrates 15 Years

The Mossy Oak Properties network was established in 2002. What started as one office in Livingston, Alabama quickly became a network of brokers. The story of the company's start, a vision that took off, is a result of passion for the outdoors and the value of relationships. The story of Mossy Oak Properties is truly a story of the Mossy Oak Brand. It's more than a business, it's one big family.

Land Management, News, Mossy Oak Properties

Wildlife Management is More Than Providing Food and Cover for Deer

Wildlife management programs are long term undertakings. We've been increasing food and habitat for our wildlife and doing what we can to improve our property each year for more than 20 years. Our guiding light for improving our lands for wildlife has been being a part of the Mossy Oak GameKeepers Club.

Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Hinge Cutting Trees Creates More Food and Habitat for Deer

We practice hinge cutting, the process of cutting trees with no economic value and letting the tops of those trees fall over, on quite a few of the farms where we plant green fields. Hinge cutting makes open areas thicker and creates feeding, bedding and cover for deer.

Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

What To Feed Deer Throughout the Year

I think one very important approach to green field plantings is to remember that deer are browsers and eat a wide variety of different foods. I've seen deer walk out of a clover patch into the woods and start feeding on greenbrier. To solve that problem, we plant several different crops in each one of our green fields.

Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Mossy Oak Named Official Camouflage of Mack’s Prairie Wings

Mossy Oak and Mack’s Prairie Wings have formed a partnership that names Mossy Oak the Official Camo of Mack’s Prairie Wings and Mack’s Sport Shop. This premier partnership gives Mossy Oak a prominent presence in one of the most extensive hunting catalogs and retail stores in the hunting and outdoors industry.

Waterfowl, Mossy Oak Shadow Grass Blades, News, Mossy Oak

How To Create a Turkey Friendly Property

In the early spring, I go back into our green fields and plant wheat for the turkeys. There’s also clover in many of the BioLogic mixes we plant for deer. We leave some of our ground freshly plowed, because turkeys seem to like fresh earth. I’ll see them bugging in the crops we've planted for them and the mature birds dusting in that freshly turned earth where we don’t plant anything. We’re also conscious of

Turkey, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak

A History of Planting for Wildlife

I first learned the value of planting for wildlife many years ago. I was hunting in Cocke County, Tennessee, on one of my cousin’s farms. My cousin said, “Benny, go right out there to the corner of the tobacco patch. I've got oats planted there, and deer love oats.”

Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

First Choke Tube Decorated in Mossy Oak Shadow Grass Blades

JEBS Choke Tubes introduces their High Voltage Waterfowl Choke Tube the first ever choke tube decorated in Mossy Oak Shadow Grass Blades. The patented design gives the shooter a more consistent shot pattern, a more distinctive and shortened shot stream, and unparalleled knock-down power for those longer shots. It is designed to easily and effectively handle steel, lead, bismuth and any other shot available. It is available in 12-gauge with 10 and 20-gauge coming soon.

Waterfowl, Mossy Oak Shadow Grass Blades, Gear, Mossy Oak

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Strategies For Hunting the "Second Rut"

Often, the first to mid-December, white-tailed does, and bucks go into what many hunters refer to as the second rut. Some hunters do not like to use the term second rut to describe the re-occurring breeding activities that occur during this time because the rutting activity is far different from that of the primary rut.

Deer, How-To

Late Season Deer Hunting Tactics for December and January

Late-season deer hunting in December and January presents unique challenges and opportunities for hunters seeking the elusive mature buck.

Deer, How-To

Chef Nathan Duensing puts a new twist on everyone’s favorite waterfowl-based appetizer, a duck popper perfect for any table.

Waterfowl, Wild Game Recipes, Video, Ingredient Wild

The Deep South Rut

For most hunters, November is the month where the magic happens in the deer woods. However, if you drive far enough south, you’ll find a land where the finest days for deer hunting are in December.

Deer, How-To

How To Adapt To Post-Rut Hunting

The post-rut can be an excellent time to find a mature buck, still on his feet and ready for action.

Deer, How-To

Top Tools for Getting Your Deer Out of the Woods

You killed a deer far from the truck. Now what? Here’s a look at some of the best ways to get your deer out of the woods.

Big Game, Deer, How-To

How to Prepare for Your Child’s First Duck Hunt

That first hunt is important and memorable for you and your child. Here’s tips from Brodie Swisher on getting the correct gear and what to know to make that first hunt a success.

Waterfowl, How-To, Video

Make it a Mossy Oak Christmas from Walmart

We've put together a list of items you can conveniently grab at your local Walmart or online to gift to your outdoors loving family and friends.

Turkey, Big Game, Small Game, Deer, Waterfowl, Predator, Gear

Make it a Mossy Oak Kids' Christmas

There's not much more rewarding than seeing your little ones excited and ready to get out in the woods or out on the water. Here's our gift guide to giving them an outdoorsy gift that they'll be thrilled to open under the tree this Christmas.

Turkey, Fishing, Small Game, Deer, Waterfowl, Gear, Mossy Oak Kids

Understanding Weather Changes and How it Affects the Rut

Understanding how weather impacts deer behavior during this critical period can dramatically increase your chances of success.

Deer

Persimmon Cheesecake Recipe

Beka Garris gives us her homemade recipe for an easy and delicious NY-style persimmon cheesecake full of that distinct persimmon flavor.

Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Best Treestands for Taking Kids Hunting

Hunting with a sidekick this season? Here’s a look at some of the best treestand options on the market for deer hunting with your child.

Deer, Gear, Bow, Firearm

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