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Bucky Hauser’s Best Trophy – A Buck for Tillee

On November 28, 2014, 2 days before Tillee’s, my youngest daughter’s 8th birthday, she and I went deer hunting to try and take Tillee’s first deer. We have 100 acres right behind my house, and that’s where Tillee and I planned to hunt.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Gerber SPAN Shotgun Tool

Every Thanksgiving I put my bow down and head out to the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Refuge in northern Utah with family and friends. Almost always, this traditional event requires some type of work to be done on my shotgun. This year was no exception. Fortunately, I'm now carrying in my pocket the new Gerber SPAN Shotgun Tool.

Gear, Mossy Oak, Firearm

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

Always Fertilize Newly Planted Trees

We get tons of phone calls and emails daily, and one of the most common questions about seedlings is “do I or don’t I fertilize my seedlings” the first year? The correct answer is: Yes, you do. Many nurseries will recommend not fertilizing the first year, and that just makes zero sense to me. What does make sense is that those nurseries don’t trust their customers with fertilizer.

Conservation, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries

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.

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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.”

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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,

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Mossy Oak Celebrates 30 Years

Thirty years ago, it began with a simple fist full of dirt. That same passion for hunting and love for the outdoor lifestyle that inspired the creation of Mossy Oak is still the driving force behind the company today. “Mossy Oak sprang up out of my love for hunting and being obsessed with getting closer to critters,” said Toxey Haas, Founder and CEO of Mossy Oak. “I never dreamed that we would be where we

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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

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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.

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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

Bill Daniels Calls the Shots for Louisiana Ducks and Geese

During the last few weeks of duck season, we change up our tactics. By then, we’re often hunting yoyo ducks - ducks that have migrated from the north to southern Louisiana. Once a warm front comes through, they migrate back toward northwest Louisiana. These ducks have seen northern blind set-ups and decoys, and they’ve heard southern callers and seen their set-ups and decoys. Ducks at the end-of-the-season are the most highly-educated ducks that we hunt

Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak Shadow Grass Blades

Snow Geese Are Tough to Harvest

I'm often asked about hunting snow geese. Generally, we don’t hunt snow geese during duck season. When snow geese come in, they have certain fields where they want to light. If they light in a field we don’t have permission to hunt, we’re just out of luck, because those snow geese will stay in one field, until they’ve eaten all the food there. Then, they’ll move to another field.

Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak Shadow Grass Blades, Mossy Oak

Bill Daniels Loves To Hunt Louisiana’s Specklebelly Geese

Specklebelly geese come to calls much like mallard ducks do. They like to circle the blind several times before they decide to come in and cup their wings in front of the blind. I call to specklebellies by trying to get one goose to pull away from the flock. Then, I do some clucks and yodels, and I listen to hear how that goose is answering back to me. Once he answers my call, I

Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak

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