Your Obsession

Feed Your Obsession

This is your destination for all things outdoors, and the captivating content that keeps you educated, inspired and informed. Whether you’re preparing for your next successful season by picking up new tips and techniques, or just browsing our articles and videos for your viewing entertainment, there’s always something worthwhile here for you to take in and enjoy.

Filter

Iowa Has Had a Strange Turkey Season in 2017

During Iowa’s youth season, the weather was fairly warm, and the bugs were out. On April 24, 2017, we had a light snow that was enough to cover the roofs on a few houses, and the bugs seemed to disappear. The weather has been fairly cool here at the end of the season, but we’ve hunted here in the snow in Iowa during early May.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak

Tenzing Packs for Mountain Country Hunting

Mountain hunters face a variety of unique challenges; the greatest of which are the increased physical demands created by elevation and steep terrain. Mountain hunters must wholly commit themselves to the physical and mental training required to perform in these beautiful, game-rich, yet challenging environments. Gear must be equally up to task.

Mossy Oak Mountain Country, Gear, Mossy Oak

Perry Peterson’s Toughest Tom

I hunted one tom hard during our second season and finally gave up on him. Then I hunted him for 10 days during the last season before I was able to take him. This ole gobbler was the big dog on campus. I think he had all the hens as a part of his harem from across much of the area. In the mornings, when I tried to hunt him, he always would have at

Big Game, Turkey, Firearm

Perry Peterson Hunts the Fat Turkeys of the Midwest

Perry Peterson is Mossy Oak’s Regional Pro Staff Manager for the nine states in the upper Midwest. He’s been a Mossy Oak Pro ever since the beginning of the Mossy Oak Pro Staff and lives in Iowa. Iowa’s youth season started in April and turkey season runs until May 22, 2017. His 10-year-old son bagged an eastern gobbler that weighed 28 pounds during the youth season, and a friend of Peterson’s hunting on his farm

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Lynn Worwood Explains Why He’s on the NWTF’s Board of Directors

I like the conservation programs that the NWTF offers. The NWTF is not only about turkeys and turkey hunting, it’s about getting people outdoors and participating in outdoor sports, whether they're shooting 3D archery, shooting at targets with their rifles and shotguns, or going hunting.

Big Game, Deer, Turkey, Mossy Oak, Bow, Firearm

Rated Red Gives Can-Am Commander a Test Drive

See Rated Red Test out the Can-Am Commander Hunting Edition on the trails at Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky. The Commander Mossy Oak Hunting Edition boasts Mossy Oak’s Break-Up Country Camo and a host of other great accessories.

Gear, Mossy Oak

Utah’s Lynn Worwood Makes Turkey Hunting Memories

Some of the most memorable turkey hunts I've ever been have been the hunts where I’ve taken my children and grandchildren. There's just something extra special about introducing a family member to turkey hunting, and being there when they harvest their first gobbler.

Big Game, Turkey, Firearm

GameKeeper Quick Tip: Leftover Scent & Lures

If you have lures and scent left over from whitetail hunting season that haven’t been opened, they can often be stored until next year. Keep them in a cool, dark place and sometimes they can last several years.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Lady Turkey Hunters and a Blackpowder Turkey Hunter in Utah

My job with the NWTF here in Utah is to help promote turkey hunting with the youth, the women and all first-time turkey hunters, as well as our Wheelin' Sportsmen program. I promote Jake events. I've worked with the youth for the past 20 years as the Jake coordinator, but I’ve had a hard time getting women involved. However, I had a friend who got a shotgun, and she said that she wanted to go

Big Game, Turkey, Firearm

Lynn Worwood Tells What’s Happening with Utah Turkeys

Up until 25 years ago, I wasn’t really a turkey hunter. I loved to hunt mountain lions and bears with hounds. Back then, in the area of Utah where I lived, we didn’t have turkeys until about 1991 or 1992. One day my brother told me, “Let’s go hunt turkeys.” I told him, “I think turkeys are probably the dumbest critters on the face of the earth. When I'm hunting mountain lions or bears, my

Big Game, Turkey, Firearm

5 Gobblers Each Season As A Turkey Guide in Utah

Fifty-five-year-old Lynn Worwood of Nephi, Utah, helped the state release the mountain goats he hunts today. He has been hunting turkeys for 25 years. Worwood is a member of the Board of Directors for Utah’s National Wild Turkey Federation that helped release the turkeys he’s now hunting.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak

My Toughest Hunts

I'm 62 years old and young at heart, but not so young as my hairline goes. So far this season, I haven’t missed a day of turkey hunting. I hunt in South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Nebraska. I put in about 50 days of turkey hunting each year. I’ll start archery hunting for turkeys on April 1. Then when gun season comes in, I’ll hunt South Dakota or one of the other states until about

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak

One of My Most Favorite Hunts

Jerry Foster and Greg Butler are two of my favorite friends, and getting to spend time with them hunting turkeys always is a great pleasure and a joy for me. The turkeys were gobbling good this morning. I put Jerry and Greg out in front of me, and I called the turkeys. We had two different groups of gobblers come in to my calling. But before they could get within gun range of my hunters,

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Overlooked Benefits of Planting Brassicas

It’s common knowledge that Brassicas such as radish, rape, and turnips make for attractive deer food plots. However, as gamekeepers we need to focus on more than just using food plots as a tool to bring deer in closer for a shot. So what are brassicas good for other than being a favorite fall/winter food item?

Conservation, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Three Keys to Bagging More Merriam’s Gobblers

I hunt both the Black Hills and the prairie here in South Dakota, but I love to hunt the Black Hills the most. I like the terrain of the Black Hills, and I enjoy hunting mountains and hollows. Most of the prairie is private ground. I do have some private property I can hunt down there, but there seems to be less turkey hunting pressure in the Black Hills – probably because most people don’t

Big Game, Turkey

Latest Content

Waterfowling Tips For Hunting The Mississippi Flyway

Whether a novice to the area or veteran hunter, there are a number of variables that dictate duck movements, and numbers and subsequently can spell success or lack-of-success to waterfowlers.

Waterfowl, How-To

Dealing with the Lockdown Phase

The reference is to the two-to-three-week period when sightings and encounters with bucks in the woods has slowed down dramatically or come to a screeching halt.

Deer, How-To

Make it a Mossy Oak Wild Game Thanksgiving

We asked our friend Jeremiah Doughty from From Field to Plate to write up a couple of Thanksgiving recipes that we’d be proud to hang our hat on, and he’s certainly done just that.

Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild, Mossy Oak Gamekeeper Butchery

Mossy Oak Camo 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

Mossy Oak’s Annual Fox Hole Shootout Hits Record-Breaking Year with $290,000 Raised for St. Jude, Catch-a-Dream, Conservation

This year, the annual Fox Hole Shootout raised an incredible amount of $290,000– the highest amount raised in the event’s history.

Turkey, Fishing, Small Game, Deer, Waterfowl, Conservation, Land Management, News, Mossy Oak Properties

Waterfowl Population Surveys: How Wildlife Managers Assess Waterfowl Populations

Among the most important components involved in calculating how many birds can and will be taken in a given year is the annual waterfowl population surveys.

Waterfowl, Conservation, Land Management

Duck Hunting Rice Fields in Arkansas: The Rich History and Modern Strategies

Although mallards had been descending on the bottomland hardwoods, bayous, and swamps of Arkansas long before the 20th century, the legend of duck hunting in the natural states tends to coincide with the advent of rice farming.

Waterfowl, Mossy Oak Companions, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Mossy Oak's 2024 Christmas Gift Guide for Hunters and Anglers

Whether you need Christmas gift ideas for fisherman, Christmas gift ideas for deer hunters, or Christmas gift ideas for camo lovers, there's a great selection of products on our list here.

Fishing, Big Game, Small Game, Deer, Waterfowl, Gear

Duck Confit Garlic Fries

Duck confit is a cooking method that leave the meat insanely silky that just melts in your mouth. So, get in the kitchen and try something new.

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

Toxey Haas's Tips for Brushing in a Duck Blind

Toxey Haas loves to hunt ducks. In these videos, he takes us through his essential kit for brushing in and repairing a duck blind as well as how he prepares his duck blinds every year.

Waterfowl, How-To

Mossy Oak's Woodsman Series is Back

The Mossy Oak Woodsman Series is Back. Rooted in everything core hunters expected from us in the early days, the Woodsman collection is thoughtfully designed, constructed with quality materials, quiet fabrics, sturdy stitching and of course, our timeless camouflage patterns. We're proud to celebrate the core of hunting, woodsmanship, and with seasonal collections on the horizon, we're excited to open the archives, add a few things and re-introduce these classic designs. The Mossy Oak Woodsman

Turkey, Big Game, Small Game, Deer, Waterfowl, Predator, Conservation, Land Management, Gear, Mossy Oak

From the Archive: Deer Calling Tips from the Pros

Originally published in the 1994 Mossy Oak Bowhunting Magazine, this article talks to professionals like Will Primos on calling in deer.

Deer

Explore All Posts