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Hunting Merriam’s Gobblers When They're with Hens

When I know the gobblers are henned-up, I don’t call to them when they're on the roost. When the hens have just started to get with the gobblers early in turkey season, I’ve learned that they’ll fly out of the tree and hit the ground running the opposite way from where I’m calling and pull the gobblers with them.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak

Hunting Gobblers in South Dakota

Jim Joint, a Mossy Oak pro for 2 years, names Obsession as his favorite camo pattern. Jim worked 37 years for General Electric in Nebraska. When he retired, he moved to Custer, South Dakota. He loves the area, especially the Black Hills. Jim does a lot of hunting in South Dakota, but he also hunts several other states including Pennsylvania, Missouri and Nebraska.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak

New Defender HD5 Side-By-Side Vehicle Brings Remarkable Value

The new tough, capable and clever Can-Am Defender HD5 side-by-side vehicle brings superior cargo and payload capacity and great value to the Can-Am lineup. BRP has expanded its line of Can-Am Defender utility-recreational off-road vehicles with the launch of the new Defender HD5 side-by-side vehicle. The Defender platform is now available with a mid-size engine, offering both value and performance while maintaining the Defender vehicle’s highly touted tough, capable and clever design.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Gear, Mossy Oak

Ronnie "Cuz" Strickland Joins QDMA Board of Directors

The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) is pleased to announce that Ronnie "Cuz" Strickland of Mississippi, Senior Vice President of Mossy Oak, has joined its Board of Directors. QDMA members can meet Strickland and welcome him to the organization at the 2017 QDMA National Convention, July 20-23 in New Orleans, where he is a featured speaker.

Big Game, Deer, News, Mossy Oak

Greatest Turkey Hunt of Them All in Massachusetts

Another hunt that I remember fondly was with my dad when I still lived at home in Massachusetts. This particular farm was 300-400 acres of rolling hills, and the technique that we used to hunt the turkeys was pretty much hunt-and-stalk. These turkeys could pitch off their roost on top of a hill and glide down to where we parked our vehicles in a couple of seconds.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Alex Cote’s First Turkey with a Bow

We have a fall season for turkeys in Vermont, and we can harvest hens as well as gobblers then. I was hunting with my bow on the opening day of bow/deer season, which occurred at the same time as the fall turkey season. I was pretty discouraged that I didn’t get a shot at a whitetail. But as I left the woods and reached the edge of a field, I saw what appeared to be

Big Game, Turkey, Bow

Establishing Spring Food Plots

Whitetails love the fresh growth that the woods and thickets explode with during that first few weeks of green up. There is no other time of year when there is such an overwhelming amount of fresh browse from such a variety of plants.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, How-To, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

No Turkeys to Too Many Turkeys in Vermont

On the way to work a couple of years ago in Vermont, I kept seeing a longbeard out in a field with a bunch of hens. When turkey season finally arrived, I asked my boss for permission to get to work a little late, so I could hunt that longbeard. He agreed to let me come in late. On opening day, I left the house later than I really wanted to, and I was afraid

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Mossy Oak and SnowLizard unveil the SLXtreme 7 case for iPhone 7 in Break-Up Country

Extreme iPhone protection in the wild has never looked so good. The new SLXtreme 7 case for iPhone 7 in Mossy Oak® Break-Up Country® camouflage was developed by mobile accessories trailblazer, SnowLizard. The new SLXtreme 7 is the only phone case on the market today that features water and drop-proof protection, rugged design and a built-in solar charger and integrated battery extender.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News, Mossy Oak

The Double Down That Worked on a Massachusetts Tom

One of my favorite hunts this past season in 2016 was with my friend 76-year-old Mike Yacino. I've been taking him turkey hunting every year for some time down on my family’s land in Massachusetts. Last year was our sixth year that we’ve hunted together. Mike is slowing down some, so, getting to our favorite place to hunt turkeys located on the edge of a cornfield on top of a knoll takes somewhat longer.

Big Game, Turkey, Firearm

Massachusetts and Vermont Gobblers

26-year-old Alex Cote of Londonderry, Vermont, harvested his first turkey when he was 12 years old while hunting with his father, and he is totally addicted to the sport of gobbler chasing. “Mossy Oak is always as effective as the day I’ve bought it. I've only been on the Mossy Oak Pro Staff for 2 years. Until that time, I was just wearing whatever hand-me-down camouflage clothing my grandfather had, as well as the Mossy

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak

Realizing the Old Way Still Works for Successful Turkey Hunting

When I’m hunting, I try to move as quietly as possible through the woods. I don’t give turkey calls but instead use locator calls, like crow and owl calls. When you use hen calls when you’re attempting to locate a tom turkey, you don’t know where that gobbler may be. He may be much closer than you think and may come running in to you, and you’ll spook him. So, if I spook a tom

Big Game, Turkey

Wading Water to Get a Turkey

I had heard a turkey gobble just before daylight on my 390 acres and was moving to him when I heard several other toms gobble down on the creek bottom, well away from where I was hunting. Since I didn’t get on the first turkey I’d heard, I decided to sneak down to the creek bottom where I’d heard the other turkeys gobbling.

Big Game, Turkey, Firearm

6 Steps to Cleaning a Wild Turkey

If you are lucky enough to harvest a wild turkey, the next step is to prepare it for the dinner table. Your options for cleaning a turkey are skinning or plucking with several variations in between. One of the most common and easiest ways is to skin the turkey and remove the meat in a way that it can easily be cooked to perfection. Before you get started you will need a good sharp knife

Big Game, Turkey, How-To, Video, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Taking a Double-Bearded Turkey on My 390 Acre Lease

The 390-acre farm I hunt homes numbers of fields that are mowed for hay. A creek runs through the land with some big hardwoods there too. The turkeys on that land like to roost over the creek and feed out in those pastures. Some folks think that about 400 acres is too small a property to hunt for turkeys. However, I’ve built two small food plots right in the middle of this land.

Big Game, Turkey

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

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Waterfowl, Mossy Oak Companions, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

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

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

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Waterfowl, How-To

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

From the Archive: Deer Calling Tips from the Pros

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