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Josh Wade Tells How to Take Deer When There Are Few Deer to Take

I start hunting deer at the end of turkey season and put out trail cameras to help me find deer to learn where they’re at, and where they’re moving. I move my cameras around to get as much information as I can about the land I hunt. Each year I review what I’ve learned from previous years.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Firearm

GameKeeper Life Hacks: Make Life Easier with our Spring/Summer “To Do” List

By this time of the year, most everyone’s hunting season is over or starting to wind down and not many guys are thinking about growing plots or feeding their deer. With some cold and nasty weather still possible for the next few weeks, it’s a great time to sit down and start planning for the upcoming growing season. There may be some things you thought of while sitting in your deer stand this fall that

Conservation, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic

Why John Wade Hunts Midwestern Deer

I met a friend in college, Jacob Kraft,from Freeman, Missouri, right on the Kansas border. He invited me to come home with him and hunt Missouri and Kansas. I went home with him a few times, and we hunted the Sugar Creek Conservation Area in Missouri, which is public land, and we saw a ton of deer there. I’d see more deer in a week in Missouri than I’d see in the entire hunting season

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Bowhunting Whitetails on the Open Prairie

I moved to North Dakota 24 years ago from southeast Ohio. I had grown up hunting hills and hardwoods. The open farm and ranch land of North Dakota presented a whole new challenge. I knew there were big deer here, but I wasn’t sure how to go about hunting them. I had to learn to think like a prairie whitetail.

Big Game, Deer

New Hampshire’s Josh Wade Hunts Deer Out of State

Coming from New Hampshire, I always wanted to believe that other states had more deer than we did in New Hampshire. On many of the outdoor shows on TV, the host might see three or four bucks in a day or maybe five or six does. I wanted to see if there was that type of deer hunting available in other states, because I could hunt hard and not see a deer in 2 weeks

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak

Hunting Deer When They’re Hard to Find

Josh Wade from Charlestown, New Hampshire, has been a Mossy Oak Pro for 7 years and been hunting whitetail for 18 years with a bow, a rifle and a blackpowder gun. “Here in New Hampshire we don’t have many deer, so we primarily have to hunt states like Missouri, where we can hunt in all three seasons.”

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Remembering How Brent Lafreniere’s Bowhunting Career for Deer Began

I started shooting a bow when I was very young and began hunting with a bow when I was 13. I’d gotten my hunting license when I was 12, so the first deer season when I was actually able to hunt with a bow was when I was 13. I took my first doe with a bow when I was 14 in 1998, and my first buck with a bow in 2001 when I was

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak, Bow

Brent Lafreniere’s Vermont Moose with a Bow

In Vermont has a lottery for moose tags. The person who draws the tag is the shooter, he can invite a second shooter to go with him, and they can pick a third person to be their guide. The guide doesn’t necessarily have to be a paid guide. I’ve been fortunate enough to go on four moose hunts either as a guide or as a shooter. Three of those hunts were unsuccessful, but I was

Big Game, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Bow

Understanding Brent Lafreniere’s Technique for Hunting Public Lands

I first started traveling to other states to hunt when I was in high school. My dad used to go to Pennsylvania with some friends of his to hunt Pennsylvania’s early bow season. A few years after he started going to Pennsylvania, he’d get me out of school on Thursday, we’d drive to Pennsylvania and bowhunt the rest of Thursday, Friday and Saturday. At that time, Pennsylvania’s early bow season would start when Vermont’s season

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak, Bow

More Food and Cover the Easy Way

Winter is the perfect time to add extra browse to your property by hinge-cutting (also known as half-cutting) select trees, or simply felling trees you need to take down. Browse consists of the leaves, buds, stems and twigs of woody deciduous trees and shrubs, but they may also choose conifers such as cedar or white pine. It’s very intriguing because even if they have ample quality foods available, for some reason they still need this

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Learning about Brent Lafreniere’s Biggest Vermont Buck

My biggest buck was an 8 pointer that weighed 176 pounds, which is a really big whitetail, and it was taken in Vermont in 2010. My Dad and I have 110 acres where we have permission to hunt. In Vermont, if the land isn’t posted and posted correctly, then anyone can hunt on it. We had talked to the landowner and had permission to hunt on this land where I took my biggest buck ever.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak

Hunting in Vermont

Brent Lafreniere lives in Williamstown, Vermont, and has been a Vermont resident his entire life. He’s been a Mossy Oak Pro Staffer for 6 years, has hunted deer for 25 years and hunts primarily public lands. Tough winters and a loss of habitat really have impacted the deer population in Vermont.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Improving the Quality of the Bucks on the Monarch Ranch

The ranch has been working hard to improve the quality of the bucks that it’s producing. Apparently our management system is producing fewer non-typical racks, we’re feeding a lot of protein to the deer, and we've increased the number of does that we have on the property. Primarily in the past, you would see bucks and no does on the Monarch Ranch.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Calling Deer on a Trophy Whitetail Ranch

When you like to deer hunt as much as I do, being able to see and hunt whitetails as much as you can is a dream come true. As a guide, I don’t carry a gun, but I get to find and call in those big whitetails for the hunters who do carry guns. When my hunter takes that buck of a lifetime, I feel as successful as the man who’s squeezed the trigger, because

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak

Hunting the Free Ranging Axis Deer, Fallow Deer and Nilgai of Texas

My favorite exotic animal to hunt is the axis deer. I love to bowhunt, but I hunt axis deer with a rifle. I have a friend who has 100 acres in Kerrville, Texas, with low fences. All the exotics that come on his property are free-ranging. One day when I was down there hunting, an axis buck appeared. When I saw the beauty of that animal and took a really-nice axis buck, I became excited

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak, Firearm

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

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

Duck Confit Garlic Fries

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

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Mossy Oak's Woodsman Series is Back

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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.

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How a Fistful of Dirt Started a Revolution

"That day was the beginning of a revolution in hunter concealment. It was the beginning of Mossy Oak, America's most effective concealment system."

Turkey, Deer

From the Archive: Ask the Pros! Mossy Oak Experts Answer Key Questions

"Pay attention as Mossy Oak Pro Staffers Will Walker, Mark Drury, Mike Fine and Stan Oakes--archery hunting's A Team--delve deep into the sport for insight and info that only they can provide."

Deer, Bow

From the Archives: Tune-Up Clinic

Originally published in the 1994 edition of Mossy Oak Bowhunting Magazine, this article discusses how to make sure your bowhunting set up is perfect come season.

Big Game, Deer, Bow

From the Archives: Bob Dixon and Steve Burnett on the Art of Mix and Matching Camo

By Terry Madewell, originally published in the 1994 edition of Mossy Oak Bowhunting Magazine As big whitetail bucks are inclined to do, this one had done the unexpected. I'd studied this buck's pattern for a couple of weeks, being extremely careful not to leave any scent in the wrong places. I'd selected a stand site where the dense underbrush funneled into a 40-yard-wide strip. I was sure this was where he would walk and I

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