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GameKeeper Quick Tip: Managing Your Bass Pond

For a recreational bass fishing pond to reach its full potential and maintain that peak, it must be managed throughout the year. One major component of managing a fish pond is controlling the fish population. If a pond gets overpopulated, there becomes a lack of food and there will be a corresponding decrease in fish size and health.

Fishing, Conservation, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties

Wild Turkey Recipe: Grilled Southwestern Wild Turkey Roll

Grilling wild turkey can be challenging. There are a handful of crafty methods for retaining moisture and tenderness in your bird while it’s resting over a pile of dry, smoky coals. This recipe employs a few of them: pounding, marinating and foil tenting. By pounding out the breast, you can cook the meat faster at a higher temperature without giving it too much time to dry out. Marinating in milk puts lactic acid to work

Turkey, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Ground Blind Tips

Here are some tips and tricks for setting up a ground blind for different hunting situations and a few dos and don'ts of ground blind hunting.

Country Roots, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Gear, How-To, Bow, Firearm

Mossy Oak Properties Announces 2018 Award Winners

Office of the Year, Agent of the Year and Fox Haas Awards Presented at 2018 Land Summit Mossy Oak Properties Office of the Year 2018: Mossy Oak Properties Land Sales and Services Frazeysburg in Frazeysburg, Ohio Mossy Oak Properties, Inc. is pleased to announce that Brian Peck of Mossy Oak Properties of the Heartland-Land and Lakes Marshfield in Marshfield, Missouri received its “Agent of the Year” award, Mossy Oak Properties Land Sales and Services Frazeysburg

Land Management, News, Mossy Oak Properties

Mossy Oak Announces New “Country Roots” TV Series on Outdoor Channel

Mossy Oak's Country Roots brings the thrill of the passions found in every facet of the outdoors and experiences them through the eyes of the people who live these obsessions in every season of the year.

Deer, Turkey, Waterfowl, News, Video, Mossy Oak

How to Clean and Fillet Tuna

Captain Kevin Beach of The Mexican Gulf Fishing Company takes you through the steps of filleting and storing fresh-caught tuna.

Fishing, How-To

How To Find and Catch Deep Water Crappie

Mitch Harrison explains how to catch crappie in deep water. Finding deep water crappie requires good electronics. You can cover 70-80 feet on each side of the boat, find a depth range of 18-25 feet and set your boat right on top of that spot, and check the imaging for fish. To find these locations, look for creek channels and drops and where they may intersect. You want to find “tops,” either manmade or natural

Fishing, How-To

One GameKeeper's First Steps for Managing A New Property

The first thing I did when I bought this land was establish our property lines. Before we acquired this land, everyone picked mushrooms, ran their dogs, hunted squirrels and deer, ran their four wheelers and rode their horses across that property. I visited all the neighbors and told them we had bought the land and weren’t having any hunting there – at least for the first year – to learn what wildlife we had on

Small Game, Deer, Conservation, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties, Nativ Nurseries

2018 Mossy Oak Properties Fox Hole Shootout Surpasses 2017 Numbers

Nearly 600 dinner attendees, 80 shooters, 136 golfers, 50+ volunteers and approximately 40 sponsors assisted in raising a net of $165,000, surpassing the $115,000 raised in 2017, which will be distributed to the three charities.

Land Management, News, Mossy Oak Properties, Firearm

Managing Your Deer Herd Basics

Understanding the balance of your deer population is essential to having a healthy deer herd. By enhancing your land’s deer carrying capacity and monitoring your doe population you can produce a healthy deer herd with bigger bucks.

Deer, Conservation, Land Management, How-To, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Barometric Pressure’s Influence on Whitetail Movement

Many hunters want to know, “what are the triggers that make mature bucks get up and move during legal hunting hours?" This way we can maximize our hunting time and we don’t need to burn our pristine hunting locations when the odds aren’t in our favor. The problem is there are many influences dictating whitetail movement; however, some are more important than others.

Deer

Fish Nutrition: A Doctor's Diagnosis to Go Fishing

Is fish good for you? What are the health benefits of fish? When it comes to fish nutrition, what do I need to know? As a specialist in health and nutrition, I get asked a wide variety of questions about the amounts of nutrition that come from various plants and animals. One of the topics that frequently comes up is fish nutrition and whether or not is very good for the human body.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, News

Tractor Implements for your Hunting Property

Landowners use tractors to facilitate property improvement and maintenance. Implements allow a tractor or ATV to complete numerous tasks for a landowner. This could beg the question, “what came first, the tractor or the implement?” The following is a look at popular implements, the function and scope of each and an average price range. For reference, we will consider those implements commonly associated with tractors in the 30 to 60 horsepower (HP) class.

Land Management, Gear, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Take Your Pond Fishing Game to the Next Level with These Two Lures

Most of the time, learning to fish begins by catching bluegill and perch with the usage of worms, grasshoppers and grubs as bait.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, How-To, Mossy Oak

Stuffed Wild Turkey Breast

This buttery and herb-filled wild turkey breast recipe will give your family the flavor filled meal they crave. Once your family tries this recipe, they’ll be begging for more which means more time turkey hunting for you!

Turkey, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild, Mossy Oak

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Instant Pot Squirrel Dumplings

This one-pot squirrel dumplings recipe is easy and delicious. A filling and satisfying dish, these dumplings really hit the spot!

Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Tailgate Talks: Duck Hunting with Jim Ronquest

by Jessi Cole Walters Jim Ronquest is a certified legend in the waterfowl world. He's a world champion duck caller and a heckuva duck hunter. If there's anyone that can convince a mallard to come visit your little section of the flooded timber, it's Jimbo. Jimbo and Drake Waterfowl invited a group of writers down to Arkansas this December for a couple of days of world-class duck hunting at a storied waterfowl cabin aptly named

Tailgate Talks, Waterfowl

Remington Core-Lokt Copper Bullets Review

Our gun-guru and self-proclaimed “accuracy nut” Bill Gabbard is back to talk about and test Remington’s interesting new solid copper bullets.

Big Game, Deer, Predator, Gear

Late Winter Small Game Hunting

Beat the winter in-between seasons blues with squirrels, rabbits, and upland birds this year. Here’s our outline on hunting these small game critters.

Small Game

Assessing Your Property Post-Whitetail Season

A post-season assessment not only provides valuable insights into your land management efforts but also sets you up for success when the 2025 hunting season rolls around.

Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Pheasant and Cornbread Pancakes

I was asked to create my version of chicken and waffles, and this is what I came up with. This recipe is simple, delicious and will keep your spouse, kids or guest coming back for seconds.

Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild, Mossy Oak Gamekeeper Butchery

BEARTOOTH by Callan Wink: Bottomland Book Club

Beartooth by Callan Wink is a novel that hunters and anglers alike will enjoy and find unputdownable.

Big Game, Bottomland Book Club, Deer

Predator Hunting in January: Capitalizing on Cold Weather and Hungry Coyotes

By Heath Wood December marks a prime time for predator hunters as the cold temperatures of late fall transition into winter, pushing coyotes into a heightened state of activity. Even though I enjoy coyote hunting all year and have had success throughout the year, December often marks the start of my “winter season” of coyote calling and is the beginning of what I believe to be the best time to hunt coyotes. With food sources

Predator, How-To, Video

3 Things to Know About Late-Season Buck Patterns

Understanding a few key patterns can give you an edge in the late season, setting you up for success when the pressure is on and the daylight hours are short.

Deer

Stand Hunting During Late Season Cold Snaps

Success requires mastering the art of patience, staying warm, controlling wind scent, and adapting to frigid winter conditions and, in some cases, snow-covered landscapes.

Deer

How to Extend Your Effective Shooting Distance

While shots can be missed at any distance, the further the shot is, the harder it is to make due to a broader range of influences.

Deer

Strategies For Hunting the "Second Rut"

Often, the first to mid-December, white-tailed does, and bucks go into what many hunters refer to as the second rut. Some hunters do not like to use the term second rut to describe the re-occurring breeding activities that occur during this time because the rutting activity is far different from that of the primary rut.

Deer, How-To

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