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A Fisherman’s Christmas Gift Guide: Eight Gifts Your Friend Will Love

When picking out the perfect gift for your angler friend, try some hooks, worms, or bottom bouncers.

Fishing, Gear, Mossy Oak Fishing

Why Paul Butski Wears Hearing Protection and Hunts from a Ladder Stand

Having good hearing can be critical to taking that buck of a lifetime. You need to be able to hear two bucks fighting, a buck grunting, a deer walking through the leaves, deer running and another hunter approaching your stand.

Deer, Firearm

A Hunter’s Christmas Gift Guide: Seven Gifts Your Friend Doesn’t Have Yet

A hunter can never have too many outdoor gear and accessories. But if your hunter already has a full kit, here are a few ideas for gifts they might not already have yet.

Gear

What’s in Your Backpack Is Vitally Important

One of the critical ingredients to having a comfortable and successful hunt is the equipment you carry in your day pack when you hunt during gun or bow season.

Deer, Gear, Bow

Elevate Your Game As A Coyote Hunter

There are 3 tactics that if coyote hunters take advantage of, they can increase their batting average, elevating their game as a good predator hunter.

Predator, How-To

Increase Success When Public Land Deer Hunting by Going Deeper

New technology and hunting aids, like onX, are enabling more and more hunters to go deeper in the woods in the dark, navigate to their tree stands or ground blinds, and be prepared to take a deer when the other hunters start coming in the woods.

Deer

Paul Butski Learns in Bow Season How to Take Deer in Gun Season

During bow season, what I learn about wind direction in the stands I hunt from will be useful information once gun season arrives.

Deer, Bow, Firearm

Paul Butski Bow Hunts to Spend More Time in the Woods

I love bowhunting and gun hunting for deer, but bowhunting allows me to spend more time in the woods than I will if I only gun hunt.

Deer, Bow, Firearm

Building a Mental Database as a Professional Fisherman

The only way you can build that database in your mind is to have spent a lot of time on the water in all types of weather and water conditions.

Fishing, How-To, Mossy Oak Fishing

Taking the Next Step to Becoming a Professional Angler

I’ve learned a lot through my high-school bass-fishing career and realize that chasing sponsors and beating down their doors is not the way to get sponsors.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Fishing

How Did Tucker Smith Get Sponsors for Bass Fishing?

One thing that most high-school tournament bass anglers want to know is how to get sponsorships on the high-school level, and how to you carry those sponsorships with you to the college level and on into a professional bass-fishing career.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Fishing

Too Cold for Your Usual Camp Spot? 7 Warmer Options to Travel To

If you dread leaving the warm confines of your sleeping bag, consider these 7 warmer options to camp this winter.

Camping

How Smith and Marbut Won the 2020 Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Championship

What type of equipment were you and your partner Hayden Marbut using to win the 2020 Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Championship?

Fishing, News, Mossy Oak Fishing

Winter Wonder Wear: 9 Camping Essentials to Keep Warm

To enjoy your winter camping properly, you must dress and pack for conditions. Taking the time to go through a checklist of your gear before departure pays off.

Gear, How-To

Three Bassmaster High School Championships at Kentucky Lake

At the 2020 Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Championship, Tucker Smith won his third National Championship with two different partners from Briarwood High School in Birmingham Alabama.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Fishing

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Field Judging Black Bears

Ask any experienced hunter and they’ll tell you that black bears are among the most difficult big game animals to field judge. Part of that is because they’re far less common than deer, so hunters just don’t get much experience seeing them. And part is just the nature of the beast. Any large, black carnivorous animal will look big, especially if you don’t have something for scale nearby.

Big Game, How-To

Black Bear Season Primer

Hunting tactics can be broken down into several schools of thought. Here's a 101-style overview on what to expect this fall if you're bear hunting for the first time.

Big Game, How-To

3 Hill Country Stand Locations for the Whitetail Rut

These key spots funnel deer into tighter spaces, condensing activity and greatly improving your odds of not just seeing more deer, but filling your tag when it counts most.

Deer

The Art of the All-Day Rut Sit

The rut is here, and with it comes the moment many of us have been waiting for all year–the chance to put in those all-day sits in the tree, hoping to cross paths with a mature buck cruising in daylight.

Deer

Mossy Oak Camo Hunting Bows and Bow Hunting Gear

We’ve got a great collection of bows and bow hunting accessories and gear in Mossy Oak camo. Whether you’re looking for a Bottomland or Country Roots bow or a new saddle or climber, this comprehensive list gives you all your options.

Big Game, Deer, Gear

Sheet Pan Dinner with Balsamic Marinated Venison Medallions

Who doesn't love the ease of a sheet pan dinner? This recipe uses venison medallions from Gamekeeper Butchery along with onions, beans, mushrooms and potatoes. Make it your own with your favorite vegetables.

Deer, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild, Mossy Oak Gamekeeper Butchery

3 Hunts Every Rookie Hunter Should Try

Our list of 3 hunts every rookie hunter should try has some great options to get you started on what many hunters consider the best hunts of the season.

Small Game, Deer, Waterfowl

Improving Savanna and Woodland Habitats in Forested Landscapes

Savannas are often overlooked components of North American forests that can be effectively managed to improve wildlife habitat and hunting opportunities through careful planning for the right combination of trees, grasses, forbs and disturbance regime.

Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries, BioLogic

Mature Whitetail Bucks: Why Don’t I See More?

Even under the best of circumstances your odds of killing a mature buck are fairly low. You can nudge them slightly in your favor by minimizing disturbance and maximizing the ability of your property to attract and hold more and older deer.

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

Mossy Oak Classics: Deer Hunting Videos from the Archive

It's Deer Season - and we've got some vintage VHS gold teed up and ready to go. Watch old Mossy Oak hunting videos with the original crew.

Big Game, Deer, Video, Mossy Oak Companions

BUILT: The Nosler Story

John A. Nosler revolutionized the bullet-making business in 1948 with his now infamous Partition bullet. Here's the story of how a frustrated and creative hunter and his company came to be icons in the hunting industry.

Big Game, Deer, Predator, Gear

5 Questions Answered to Help Develop a Scrape Hunting Strategy

When it comes to hunting mature bucks, understanding and utilizing scrapes can be a game-changer.

Deer, How-To

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