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Mossy Oak Pro Lisa Thompson Tells How to Take Bull Elk on Colorado’s Public Lands

In 12 years, I've harvested eight, 6-point bull elk in Colorado all on public lands. I don’t hunt from a vehicle. I get off the beaten path. When I climb out of my vehicle, I hike back into steep and rugged ravines that most elk hunters won’t hunt. I realize going in that if I harvest a bull, I'll have to carry him out on a frame pack, and I'm okay with that. I bone

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Mossy Oak’s Lisa Thompson Remembers Her Best Elk Hunt Ever

Mossy Oak Pro Lisa Thompson of Littleton, Colorado, who’s married to her hunter husband Keith and has twin daughters, is one of the most-knowledgeable and physical elk hunters you'll ever meet. She’s also a mom, a business woman, a basketball player and an expert woodswoman. A member of Cabela’s and Nock On, that produces lighted nocks for arrows, pro staffs, Thompson’s successful at taking big bulls on public lands. If you'll apply the tips and

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Reed Hansen Says He Wakeskates to Go Hunting

As I look to the future I want to wakeskate as long as I can, and I want to use my position as a World Champion Wakeskater to help tell people why I love hunting, why I like Mossy Oak, and why I wear Mossy Oak anytime I go hunting when I’m not competing.

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World Champion Wakeskater Reed Hansen Was Born a Skier

A big community of water skiers are in the Chicago area, and my dad grew up skiing for the Wonder Lake Water Ski Show Team. That ski team still puts on shows today. My dad decided he wanted to go to Sea World and make a living as a professional water skier. So, my dad and mom met at Sea world, fell in love and got married. Before long they had my older brother Trevor,

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Champion Wakeskater Reed Hansen on Mossy Oak and His Love of Hunting

Many people want to know when I started hunting. I started hunting about the same day I began to walk. My dad took me hunting before I was old enough to hunt by myself. I’d go out and sit with him on the deer stand while he was hunting. I’ve always had a love for deer hunting. That time spent with my dad, seeing deer and watching him take deer is what has created my

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5 Steps To Creating A New Food Plot

Summer is upon us and many gamekeepers are starting to get the fever for the fall hunting season. If you have a new lease or have acquired some new property to hunt you may have some new opportunities for places to establish a food plot. A question we are often asked is how do I clear a new food plot or reclaim an old field and turn it into a productive food source?

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

How ProStaffer Reed Hansen Learned the Sport of Wakeskating

When I was 14-years old, I had been wakeboarding for 11 years. My older brother was a wakeboard champion, and my mom and dad owned a wakeboard school in Groveland, Fla. But then I discovered wakeskating and really got into it, which really went against the grain of my family because my entire family was wakeboarders.

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Life on the Land: Craig Kelley

Buying or selling land can be an easygoing and satisfying process if you have the right team backing you up. There are a multitude of complex tax laws and intricate industry-specific terms that can make an average landowner unsure if he or she is making the right decision when transferring land. However, with the aid of a Mossy Oak Properties certified land specialist, owners and investors of land can navigate through this potentially tricky process

Conservation, Mossy Oak Properties

Wakeskating with ProStaffer Reed Hansen

Twenty-five-year-old Reed Hansen of Clermont, Florida, is the current reigning and seven-time World Champion Wakeskater and is one of the newest members of the Mossy Oak Pro Staff. The sport of wakeskating was born about 15-20 years ago, and Hansen was one of the pioneers of this new water sport. Like you, many at Mossy Oak didn’t know what a wakeskater was until Hansen gave us his information. Reed Hansen probably has one of the

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Mossy Oak BioLogic Signs Sponsorship For Moultrie's The Hit List

Mossy Oak BioLogic, the leading provider of seed and food plot management products for 17 years, has signed a two-year sponsorship deal with Moultrie's The Hit List on The Outdoor Channel.

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The Biggest Bull Elk and the Strangest Elk Hunt Ever with Ralph Ramos

I'm a middle school principal, and all my hunts are 3-day hunts. I leave on Friday afternoon, hunt Saturday and Sunday and sometimes on Monday. Then I'm back at school. I average guiding about seven hunters for elk season. So far, we've been 100 percent on taking bull elk. Primarily, I hunt in the Gila National Forest and the Lincoln National Forest in Cloudcroft, New Mex. In the Lincoln National Forest, the bulls will score

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Ralph Ramos Explains the X Zone for Hunting Elk

I believe using the X Zone is the best way to put an elk in front of a hunter. As soon as we locate an elk and hear him bugling, chuckling or growling, I like to move in quickly to get within 150 yards of a bugling bull. Once I get there, I’ll set my hunter up. If he's a right-handed shooter, I’ll have him kneel on his right knee to have 180 degrees where

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Ralph Ramos on How He Hunts Elk - Tactics and Calls

I like working ridge lines. Usually, I try to get on top of a ridge before daylight and call on both sides of the ridge. Also, as I walk down the ridge line, I can call into different draws and cover more prime elk territory than if I stay in the bottoms. I try to get to the ridge as quietly as possible. When I start cow calling, I like to call as softly as

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3 Ways to Quietly Enter and Exit Your Hunting Stand

Stand approach is extremely important. If not executed properly, you can destroy all chances before you ever make it to your tree stand or blind. However, getting there is only half the battle. You also need to retreat out of your area without bumping animals.

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Ralph Ramos Uses Excess Cow Calling to Trigger Bull Elk to Bugle

About 25-years ago, I had an opportunity to hunt with Larry D. Jones in the Gila National Forest near Reserve, New Mex. At the first of the season, the weather was really hot, and the elk weren’t bugling. We sat down for lunch, and Larry said, “Let’s start sounding like two bulls up here on the top of this mountain. Let’s bugle back and forth like bull elk challenging each other. In the middle of

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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.

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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.””

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