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4 Tips When Planting Trees For Wildlife

A simple way to determine a suitable location is to look around your immediate area at the vegetation that already exists- if you see one particular spot that has taller or greener vegetation, plant your tree there.

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Mossy Oak Camo Rings: The Gift For Which You’ve Been Hunting

As the holiday season draws near, chances are that you’ve been hunting for the perfect gift for that special someone in your life. Or perhaps, you are looking for the perfect engagement or wedding ring set that captures the wilderness loving spontaneity of your unique relationship. Mossy Oak camouflage rings provide a “perfect catch” for that special someone, offering a beautifully diverse spectrum of digitally enhanced, highly realistic nature camo scenes in all of their

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Don’t Eat Bull Elk Tags When You Can Take a Cow

In June and July each year, you usually can buy leftover tags that haven’t been filled from the previous season. I usually pick the weekends that I want to hunt cows. I'm a fair-weather hunter. I don’t mind the snow and ice, but on the weekends when our area has 50 to 60 mph winds, I’d rather stay at the house. I've found that the most productive days to hunt in the late elk season

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How Many Cow Elk Do You Need?

Walk-in areas on private ranches that are managed by the Game and Fish Department are other places where I find good cow-elk hunting. The landowners in these regions get too much elk pressure on their lands and may ask the Game and Fish Department for help in removing some of those excess elk. Once the Game and Fish Department examines these properties and deems a certain number of elk need to be removed to keep

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Josh Van Vlack on Doubling Down on Late Season Elk

Josh Van Vlack, who lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been hunting elk since 2001 and has been a Mossy Oak Pro since 2006. Van Vlack is a double dipper during elk season. Like many western hunters, Van Vlack knows that an elk or two can supply plenty of meat – really delicious meat – for his family all year long for a very low price, and he gets the recreational value of hunting elk as

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Vera Handbag Offers Concealed-Carry Handbags in Mossy Oak® Blaze™

Vera Handbag has joined Mossy Oak, outdoor industry leader in camouflage design, to offer conceal and carry handbags, wallets and side bags in the vibrant Blaze™ pattern.

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Equipment Needed for a Late Season Elk Hunt

The first and most important equipment for a late-season elk hunt is a quality pair of waterproof boots. You don’t want to show up in camp with your new boots still in the cardboard shipping box. You should have your boots broken in and know that you can wear them without getting blisters and without getting your feet wet. You may want to consider bringing a pack boot that has a rubberized sole and bottom,

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What You Must Understand about Weather and Elk Hunting

If you don’t know when to continue or to discontinue the hunt and look for shelter, you can get in serious trouble. If you're hunting elk in the late season, you need to be prepared to hunt under some really tough conditions. If you’ve got the potential for rain or snow to hit while you're out hunting, you need to be prepared to either hunt in that weather or survive in that weather.

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Packing on The Pounds

Cold temperatures typically drive sugar production and turn brassica blends to their most palatable state. Once this happens expect this to be the hottest food source in the area. Brassicas are like candy to whitetails. Different brassicas tend to develop their sugar at different times. Radishes, rape, canola, turnips and kale are all great plantings, and if you have enough ground all should be planted. This way you will have the most attractive planting available

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

How to Find Elk When They're Not Talking

The real key to finding elk in the late season is being familiar with the travel corridors they use when they come out of the high country and/or when they leave the parks. Typically, elk will follow the same migration routes every year, depending on when cold weather hits and where the food source is that they normally go to. Those are the two main reasons that makes scouting over the internet and the telephone

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How Late Season Elk Hunting Is Different from Early Season Elk Hunting

In the late season, patience will be your number-one tactic if you're trying to take a herd bull. Often the herd bull will be covered up with cows. If you're bowhunting in the late season, taking a herd bull becomes much more difficult than if you're hunting with a rifle.

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Hunting and Taking Late Season Elk with Karl Badger

Mossy Oak Pro Karl Badger lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, and he has been hunting and guiding for elk for 25 years. During the late season for elk, Badger says, “You definitely have to change the camo pattern that you normally wear in early-season elk hunting. I've been wearing Mossy Oak Brush. But for the last 2 weeks in November, I've been wearing the new Mountain Country, and this new pattern really works well

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30 Years of Mossy Oak: Bill Zearing

I registered my trademark for Cody Turkey Calls in 1982 after building my first wood-pot style friction call in 1981. Today, I make glass, slate and box style turkey calls. I was honored to be asked by the folks at Mossy Oak to help out and guide for Mossy Oak’s very first turkey hunt in Texas.

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Learning the Primary Ducks in an Area and Hunting Private Lands

The majority of ducks we take in our section of Kentucky are mallards, pintail and gadwalls. If we’re hunting diving ducks, we’ll be taking bluebills, ring-necks, wigeons, redheads and canvasbacks. But we don’t see those ducks until later on in the year when the weather gets really cold.

Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak, Firearm

5 Tips for Improving Your Spot

With most every state’s hunting season in full swing, GameKeepers are spending hard earned time in the stand. After a few hours of treestand time, you might start noticing a few adjustments that could improve your hunting success. Whitetails are constantly adjusting to food and habitat changes and so should you. Here are 5 considerations to improving your stand and hunting success.

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Pheasant and Cornbread Pancakes

I was asked to create my version of chicken and waffles, and this is what I came up with. This recipe is simple, delicious and will keep your spouse, kids or guest coming back for seconds.

Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild, Mossy Oak Gamekeeper Butchery

BEARTOOTH by Callan Wink: Bottomland Book Club

Beartooth by Callan Wink is a novel that hunters and anglers alike will enjoy and find unputdownable.

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Predator Hunting in January: Capitalizing on Cold Weather and Hungry Coyotes

By Heath Wood December marks a prime time for predator hunters as the cold temperatures of late fall transition into winter, pushing coyotes into a heightened state of activity. Even though I enjoy coyote hunting all year and have had success throughout the year, December often marks the start of my “winter season” of coyote calling and is the beginning of what I believe to be the best time to hunt coyotes. With food sources

Predator, How-To, Video

3 Things to Know About Late-Season Buck Patterns

Understanding a few key patterns can give you an edge in the late season, setting you up for success when the pressure is on and the daylight hours are short.

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Stand Hunting During Late Season Cold Snaps

Success requires mastering the art of patience, staying warm, controlling wind scent, and adapting to frigid winter conditions and, in some cases, snow-covered landscapes.

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How to Extend Your Effective Shooting Distance

While shots can be missed at any distance, the further the shot is, the harder it is to make due to a broader range of influences.

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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 in December & 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.

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