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Hunting Survival: 5 Tips for Encountering a Wild Animal

All hunters know and appreciate the beauty, prowess, and potential deadliness of wild animals. As an experienced hunter, knowing what to do if you come across a wild animal on your hunting trip should be an essential part of your knowledge-arsenal for maintaining your safety in the wild.

Big Game, Predator, How-To

Baked "Fried" Wild Turkey

I was inspired to create this appetizer while attending and evening wedding of a lifelong friend. It seemed everyone had tried chicken fingers with honey mustard sauce, and I thought this would work great with wild turkey.

Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Advantages of Fishing Light Line and Braided Line

I try to fish line as heavy as I possibly can use, because I believe that the heavier line allows me to land more bass than light line does.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua

Mossy Oak and American Buffalo Knife and Tool Company Announce Mossy Oak Patterned Knives

Mossy Oak and American Buffalo Knife and Tool Company have teamed up to bring hunters a trio of new knives with Mossy Oak patterned handles. All three knives are immediately available.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Gear, News

Foraging the Forest Floor: Asparagus, Chickweed and Stinging Nettle

Early spring brings a newness to the woods. Turkeys are beginning to gobble and the fish are biting. But along with the thawing ground and warmer weather, we have some nutritious foods that we can forage from the forest floor.

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

Bad Birds: When Turkeys Don’t Cooperate

And after more than 40 years of turkey hunting I still find birds that beat me. I cuss them out at first, but when reason returns I bless them for making me a better turkey hunter.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, How-To, Firearm

How to Trap Turkey Predators In Order to Increase Poult Populations

Ongoing predator control is a useful and often necessary tool for successful wildlife management. A regular relationship with a trapper will help you see a big increase in ground-nesting birds.

Turkey, Predator, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

How Tony Adams Catches Warm Weather Crappie

Tony Adams of Eufaula, Alabama, can produce a three-person limit of crappie on Lake Eufaula in less than 4 hours, and you can too by following his recommendations for crappie fishing on many crappie lakes across the country.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, How-To

Food Plots for Game Bird Success

Two aspects of wildlife management that are growing rapidly are the restoration of native habitat and growing crops with game birds in mind. I am of the opinion that “loss of habitat” may be the number one factor (on a list of many reasons) for the steady decline in quail numbers over the past several decades.

Small Game, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, How-To, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries

Gobbler Groceries: A Professional Hunter’s Guide to Wild Turkey Nutrition

Turkeys aren’t very picky eaters. They can eat a wide array of both plant and animal (insect) food and have adapted to survive on what’s most abundant at any particular time of year. Here we’ll help you build the right nutritional calendar to ensure big turkeys at hunting season.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Tackling Tardy Toms

Birds that aren’t culled out early wise up quickly and their once eager response to our plaintive pleadings soon ranges somewhere between reluctance and indifference. As the days grow longer, the randy toms’ breeding instincts start to wane, making them even harder still to hunt.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, How-To

Murphy and Gunn Partner to Win at the Bassmaster College Series Tournament

Gunn and Murphy won their first tournament they’d ever fished together on the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair. With that win, the two young men bonded and decided to fish together as partners.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua

Catching Flounder in the Spring with Mark Davis

The flounder is the ultimate ambush predator. Although you’ll hear numbers of stories about flounder coming up off the bottom and attacking a top-water lure or a spinner bait, what a flounder does best is lay on the bottom where water is being channeled in or out of an area.

Fishing

A Monster Spotted Bass Produces a Win at the College Series Tournament for Murphy and Gunn

In the 2019 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Tournament Presented by Bass Pro Shops on Lewis Smith Lake in north Alabama, March 21-23, 2019, 250 boats from 74 colleges in 28 states competed. At the end of the tournament, two young men from Michigan’s Grand Valley State University, Lucas Murphy, 22 years old from Walker, Michigan, and his partner 19-year-old Mitchell Gunn from Fenton, Michigan, stood on the winners’ stand.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua

Blocker Outdoors: Mossy Oak Performance Apparel for Any Hunt

Blocker Outdoors enters its 41st year with renewed commitment to make its premium line of ScentBlocker apparel better than ever. Including a diverse range of base layers, early-, mid- and late-season jackets and pants, and a complete line of caps, gloves, facemasks and headcovers.

Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Gear, News

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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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