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Use Your Ears When Scouting Deer

On the first day of deer season, I went with one of my buddies and his 10-year-old son to help this young boy try and take his first deer with a bow. He had been practicing all summer long, and he could shoot accurately out to 30 yards.

Deer, How-To, Bow

Hunters Provide Millions of Meals

Most hunters know that QDMA is among the nation’s premier conservation organizations, working every day to improve America’s deer hunting. What these same hunters might not realize, though, is that QDMA and its members have provided millions of nutritious meals to those Americans most in need.

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

Harvesting Does in Early Season Benefits the Herd and the Hunter

If you don’t remove a portion of the reproductive segment of your herd, once the herd reaches the carrying capacity of the land, your bucks and does can’t grow to their full potential each year. That’s the reason we encourage people to take does during bow season. Harvesting does at the beginning of bow season also helps the archer get more comfortable with having deer in close and making accurate shots.

Deer, How-To, Bow

Introducing GWG's The Woody PK In Mossy Oak Break-Up Country

Girls with Guns Clothing is excited to announce the launch of their second boot collaboration with The Original Muck Boot Company - the Woody PK boot in Mossy Oak Break-Up Country!

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Gear, News

Deer Hunting with the Wind

Let Mossy Oak show you the right way to go deer hunting on windy days. Check out tips and learn how to hunt in and with the wind successfully today!

Deer, How-To, Bow

The Birthday Hog Hunt with Only a Knife

For my birthday present one year, I didn’t get the usual jewelry, perfume, romantic dinner or tickets to a play many women like. My husband bought me exactly what I wanted – a wild hog hunting trip to Louisiana. I’d hunted wild hogs before, and this hunt was special because we were hunting with Mike Jones with dogs.

Big Game, Mossy Oak

Marsha Raley Hunts with Brenda Valentine

Since taking those first two deer with my bow, I’ve taken wild hogs, turkeys and more deer with my bow. Wild hogs are getting to be one of my favorite animals to shoot with a bow. But one of my favorite hunts of all time was in 2015 when I went on a hunt with Brenda Valentine, the First Lady of Hunting.

Deer, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Planting Food Plots Out West for Blacktails, Mule Deer and Elk

Now we’re seeing hunters in Washington State and Oregon planting green fields for blacktailed deer. We also have some hunters in the West planting green fields for mule deer. Mule deer travel more than whitetails do, but the muleys still like something green to eat. The hunters who have planted BioLogic are reporting good success with feeding different types of deer. So, the use of green field plantings has proved over the years to be

Big Game, Land Management, BioLogic

Ott DeFoe Joins Mossy Oak Fishing Team

Mossy Oak has added professional bass fisherman Ott DeFoe to the Mossy Oak Fishing Team. Established this year in conjunction with the launch of Mossy Oak Elements, the Mossy Oak Fishing Team is growing with bassmasters KevinVanDam and Gerald Swindle and saltwater fisherman Mark Davis already on board.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, News, Mossy Oak

Bowhunting Patience and Persistence Pays Off for Marsha Raley

The year after I took my first buck, I told my husband I wanted to learn how to shoot a bow and bowhunt for deer. So, I got a bow. All summer long, I shot that bow continuously. Then I planned to be ready to hunt during the fall.

Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Marsha Raley Learned How to Hunt on Her Own

Marsha Raley of Maynardville, Tennessee, has been on the Mossy Oak Pro Staff for 4 years. She is a bowhunter as well as a gun hunter. She was born into hunting as her dad and her stepdad both were avid hunters. “Before I could hunt with either of them, I’d wait at the door for one of them to come home to see what they had in the back of their trucks,” she said.

Deer, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Ideal Tree Stand Locations: Using Funnels

Whitetail travel from place to place using cover and terrain to their advantage. Learning to recognize the transition areas, access points, and travel corridors of whitetails is crucial to choosing your ambush location. In fact, if you choose the right funnel during the chase phase of the rut it can seem like “God just pulled the drain-plug on a sink full of deer.”

Deer, Mossy Oak, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Deer Hunting Off the Beaten Path

To consistently and successfully harvest deer, you have to do what few hunters will do and go where few hunters will go. If I walk a mile and cross three ridgetops to reach my hunting spot, I’ll rarely if ever see another hunter.

Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Hunting in Streamside Management Zones

During bow season in Alabama, I’m looking for good stands of oaks that are producing a good number of acorns. Often I’ll find those oak trees in Streamside Management Zones (SMZs are areas of forests adjacent to bodies of water like ponds, rivers, creeks and intermittent streams that serve as filter strips for surface water runoff.) between two different ages of stands of pine trees.

Deer, Turkey, Mossy Oak

Wildlife Biologists Can Help Hunters

One of the reasons that I believe the wildlife biologist who’s responsible for that WMA can tell you the best place to find an older-age-class buck is that hunters check in their deer and turkeys on the WMA and are supposed to tell the biologists where they’ve taken the animals or birds.

Deer, Turkey, Mossy Oak

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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.””

Turkey

Wild Turkey Roosting Habits

Wildlife photographer Tes Jolly knows the ins and outs of turkey habits—she’s watched them as much if not more than anybody. Here’s what she’s learned about roosting preferences.

Turkey

Uncommon Panfish Fishing Techniques

If you’re having a slow day catching crappie or other panfish, try out these less common techniques that all the fish at your favorite spot may have not seen yet.

Fishing, How-To, Video, Mossy Oak Fishing

On Fishing Red Colors for April Bass

Fishing with red during April is tournament proven. Here's the why's and exactly what kind of red lures you should be throwing.

Fishing, How-To, Video, Mossy Oak Fishing

NWTF Presents: The Big Six

The National Wild Turkey Federation classified six major regions across 738 million acres to best identify the urgent needs of wild turkeys across the country.

Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

11 Strategies for Hunting Silent Gobblers

No challenge can be more frustrating than dealing with quiet gobblers. It can humiliate world-champion callers and beginners alike.

Jim Turlington--The Artist Behind the 2025 Mossy Oak Wild Turkey Stamp

Jim Turlington is a wildlife artist residing in Deltona, Florida. He's been hunting, photographing and painting wild turkeys for decades.

Turkey, Conservation, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Mossy Oak Wild Turkey Stamp Helps Fund Large-Scale Florida Wild Turkey Research

Dr. Marcus Lashley is leading a multi-year, multi-faceted wild turkey research project based Florida, one that he says is the largest and most comprehensive turkey study conducted.

Turkey, News

Spring Food Plots | What, When, and How

View our spring food plots for deer and turkey article to identify the critical months in a whitetail's life. Learn when bucks start the antler genesis process!

Turkey, Deer, Waterfowl, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic

Overcoming Early Turkey Season Obstacles

The early season provides some unique challenges to the turkey hunter, like cold weather, little to no foliage, and henned up gobblers.

Turkey, How-To

Wild Turkey Diseases: Avian Pox and LPDV

As responsible hunters and gamekeepers, we can help turkeys by being vigilant for birds that appear ill, whether we’re observing them or admiring one up close after a successful hunt.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

River Cane Ecology and Canebrake Management for Wildlife

River cane is one such species that is both a striking deviation and a biologically-unique component of Southeastern forest and grassland habitats.

Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries

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