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CAN-AM OUTLANDER MOSSY OAK HUNTING EDITION 570

The 2017 Can-Am Outlander Mossy Oak Hunting Edition 570 package features a budget friendly price as well and enhancements to improve a hunter’s day in the field. This ATV was designed in cooperation with the camouflage concealment and hunting expert Mossy Oak, including direct input from its Mossy Oak Pro Staff team. The Can-Am Outlander Mossy Oak Hunting Edition 570 reinforces the Can-Am brand’s leadership in specialized vehicles and makes its family of Mossy Oak-themed

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Gear, Mossy Oak

Top 5 Must Have Turkey Hunting Gear

Most of today's turkey hunters are guilty of buying some type of new hunting gear every spring in hopes of giving them that so-called "edge" on easily bagging a trophy tom. I wear a turkey vest filled with my turkey calls and multiple accessories on every hunt. However, there are a few must have pieces that I faithfully use that I feel make me a better turkey hunter. Here is my top 5 list of

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Obsession, Gear, Mossy Oak

Use a Push Button Call for Your First Turkey Call and Pattern Your Gun

In seminars, I'm often asked, “If a fellow never has been turkey hunting before and wants to start this season, what turkey call will you tell him to buy?” I’ll suggest the Easy Yelper, the Trigger Finger or some other type of push button call. All these calls are box calls that only require one stroke of your finger to create a turkey yelp. Very little practice is required, and the sounds that these push

Big Game, Turkey, Firearm

Be Patient When Hunting Turkeys

According to national statistics, between 65 and 70 percent of all outdoor readers are new to the sports they read about, which is especially true of turkey hunters. Often, we forget that we need information for the new people in our sport every year.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak

Mossy Oak® Properties touches down in California

Mossy Oak Properties is pleased to announce that it has opened its first California office with the opening of Mossy Oak Properties California Farm & Ranch in Bakersfield. Mossy Oak Properties California Farm & Ranch is led by the father-son team of Ron and Derek Sprague. With over four decades of experience, Ron has developed a broad and extensive expertise in nearly every aspect of real estate, including the sale and leasing of agricultural and

News, Mossy Oak, Mossy Oak Properties

Joe Brown Says Take Youngsters Turkey Hunting

I have an 8-year-old son named Garrett, who took his first gobbler when he was 5 years old. He shot that gobbler at 10 yards with a little 2-3/4-inch 20 gauge shotgun. I had a red dot scope mounted on the shotgun for him, and I had him practicing on a turkey-head target. He knew when he put that red dot on that turkey’s wattles that he could take that gobbler.

Big Game, Turkey, Firearm

Habitat Structure for Producing and Holding More Fish

Some fish species relate to bait more than structure. But even when that’s the case, the bait they’re after usually relates to structure of some kind. So giving your fish something to relate to in the form of structure is a huge step forward to producing and holding more fish. Some try to sink trees, others try to build structures and “cribs,” but why do all that work when it can be as easy as

Fishing, Conservation, Mossy Oak, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Late Season Gobbler Tactics with Joe Brown

As I’ve mentioned, toward the end of the Kentucky’s turkey season, the gobblers will expand their ranges. Often we’ll get new gobblers coming onto our property that we don’t have any pictures of, and some of our gobblers will be in locations where we've never seen them previously. The good news is that those gobblers still will be vocal, and we can locate them.

Big Game, Turkey

Stampede Offers Mossy Oak Break-Up Country Automotive Accessories

Stampede Automotive Accessories, a brand of Lund International®, is pleased to announce that our popular sidewind deflectors, hood shields and fender flares are now available in Mossy Oak’s new Break-Up Country camo pattern. With dramatically larger limbs, leaves, bark, branches and other digitally enhanced natural elements, Break-Up Country offers a fresh, new look like no pattern that has come before it.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Gear, Mossy Oak

Joe Brown Knows Before Turkey Season Opens Whether the Season Will be Good or Bad

In 2016, we didn’t have as many gobblers to hunt as we'd had in previous years. I'd been talking to one of the state’s wildlife biologists and asked him, “Why do we have some years where we have booming turkey populations, and some years when we don’t seem to have as many gobbling turkeys as in the past?” He answered, “I don’t know, but seeing the gobbling turkey population go through a boom or a

Big Game, Turkey

Joe Brown Explains Kentucky Turkeys from the Field to the Fork

Joe Brown of Breckinridge County in north central Kentucky, on the Ohio River, has been hunting turkeys for 24 years. When we called to interview Joe, he was in his backyard frying turkey breasts. He shares with us this week about hunting turkeys in Kentucky.

Big Game, Turkey, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

What Happens Once the Hunter Makes the Shot and the Turkey’s Flopping

I’ll tell my hunter before we leave the lodge to go hunting that day that if we see a turkey, and he shoots him, I’ll jump up quickly, grab the hunter’s gun, start running toward the tom and get my foot on the tom’s head to make sure he can’t run off. I don’t think that I’m in a safe position when I have my back to a hunter, he has a shell in the

Big Game, Turkey, Firearm

How the Hunter Prepares to Shoot When the Turkey’s Closing Ground

I don’t want my hunter to have to hold his gun for a very long time, and I don’t want him to get fidgety. So, I make sure he’s in a good shooting position with his butt flat on the ground, his back supported by a tree trunk, his knees pulled up, and the gun resting on his knees, with his cheek against the stock and scanning and searching for the turkey.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Zink Calls unveils new gear with NWTF logo

Just in time for spring turkey season, Zink Calls, Plano Synergy and the National Wild Turkey Federation have teamed up to bring turkey hunters high-tech gear featuring the NWTF logo. No matter where Zink Calls turkey hunting products are purchased, hunter conservationists across the United States will be positively impacting the NWTF Save the Habitat. Save the Hunt. initiative.

Big Game, Turkey, Gear

Managing Whitetails with Minerals

A very simple but favorite management chore of mine in the spring is establishing new mineral sites. The anticipation of what might show up that year as the antlers begin to develop is always super high. I have even found myself in the past few years putting out mineral rocks and supplements in urban landscapes and backyard woodlots just to see what deer frequent the area even though I have no intention of hunting there.

Big Game, Deer, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

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Saving the Gizzard Stones

Looking for a unique way to save the memories of your bird? Start saving the gizzard stones for a colorful way to collect more trophies from your bird each spring.

Turkey, How-To

Crappie Tactics: Insight from Pro Angler Whitey Outlaw

We talk to Whitey Outlaw, a retired professional angler who spent 42 years on the crappie tournament circuit. He’s got as good of advice as you’ll ever hear.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Fishing

Redbud Jelly and Foraging for Redbuds

Redbuds make for an easy forage and some great-tasting jelly. Our friend Beka Garris gives us her jelly recipe and tips!

Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild, Nativ Nurseries

Black Crappie vs White Crappie

A lot of anglers lump the black crappie and the white crappie together as one species, but knowing the differences can help you catch more fish.

Fishing, How-To, Mossy Oak Fishing

Crappie Fish Tacos

When the crappie are biting, fry them up for a fresh and flavorful taco night.

Fishing, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

How to Make a Wingbone Call

Wingbone calls are one of the coolest ways to remember a hunt and honor a turkey, and all in all you can get one done with about 2-3 hours of work (with some waiting in between.)

Turkey, How-To, Video

Foraging for Dandelions

Foraging for dandelions and want to know where to find them? Read Dr. Brooks Tiller's blog post at Mossy Oak and learn all about dandelion harvesting today!

How-To, Wild Game Recipes, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Ingredient Wild

Morel Mushrooms Foraging

Morel mushrooms are the ultimate find in the spring woods. Here's advice on how to find them.

Conservation, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Companions, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Ingredient Wild, Nativ Nurseries

Tips for Hunting the Morel Mushroom

Check out Mossy Oak's morel mushroom hunting tips to learn what gear you need, how to eat them and much more. Read Your Obsession blog today!

How-To

A History and a How-to for the Trumpet Turkey Call

Turkey hunters are a rare breed. They tend to cherish the past, as well as strive for a better tomorrow, like no other hunting community out there

Turkey, Video

BUILT: Cody Calls Turkey Calls

Bill Zearing firmly cemented his place in the turkey history books with his creation of the wooden sounding board for turkey pot calls and his thoughtful innovations continue to carve the path for modern call makers today.

Turkey, News, Mossy Oak, Mossy Oak Companions

Proven Strategies for Tough Gobblers

“There are those birds that seem downright un-killable. When you encounter them, it might be time to think outside the box call, throw the book away and try something more “unconventional.””

Turkey

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