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If your sights are set on big game hunting, go to the next level with our collection of big game hunting videos and articles. Made to inform and inspire your adventure of a lifetime, you’ll hear firsthand from the masters of high-altitude achievement, and begin your quest toward becoming a stronger & better-prepared big game hunter.

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8 Tips for Rifle Hunting Elk for the First Time

Going on my first elk hunt taught me some things. Here are some things that I learned that may be helpful to the first-time elk hunter:

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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.

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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

Ground Blind Hunting for Antelope in Mossy Oak Eclipse

Mossy Oak Capture Digital Productions went to Wyoming during the 2017 Eclipse to hunt antelope in a ground blind. Mossy Oak recently launched its new Eclipse camo pattern for ground blind hunting and set out to capture a memorable hunt.

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Can Mule Deer Be Managed Effectively?

A growing number of mule deer hunters are catching on to the fact that they can dramatically improve the quality of their herd and hunting opportunities by employing the same tried and true management methods of the QDMA. Just like whitetails, mule deer need food, water, cover and a spot where they are left alone. In recent years, I’ve been paying close attention to a ranch in Wyoming and how they have progressed. What they

Big Game, Conservation, Land Management, BioLogic

Mossy Oak Presents a Short Film “Leap Alaska”

Mossy Oak presents “Leap Alaska,” a short film that follows Tanner Coulter as he hunts Alaska for the first time with friend Andrew Wiseman. Their shared passion for hunting forged a friendship that led to this unforgettable hunt.

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Welcome to Mountain Country

It's September, which means we've already been West to hunt Mountain Country. Watch our first elk hunt of the season, featuring Chris Paradise, Senior Vice President of Mossy Oak.

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The Long Hike Elk Hunt

We investigated the spot where the bull had been standing when I took the shot. Although we didn’t find any blood, we saw the direction where the bull had run. He’d gone into some really thick brush. Because night was approaching quickly, we decided to leave the bull and come back and try and find him the next day.

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Krissy Knox’s Best Bull Elk

The second bull I took was during one of the greatest years we ever had elk hunting. Ryan and I decided to hike in six miles into the back country, set up a spike camp and then hunt out of the spike camp. We went to the deepest, darkest canyon we could locate the night before our hunt. We had found a herd of elk and put them to bed, before we went back to

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Hunting is a Family Affair for Krissy Knox

I’ve lived in Harrisburg, Oregon, my entire life, and our entire family hunts. After Ryan and I were both mentored into hunting by the older members of our family, we became hunting partners and have remained hunting partners throughout life while raising our own families.

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New Mexico Elk and California Bears

My favorite thing about elk hunting is calling the elk in to a bowhunter. There’s nothing quite like hearing an 800-pound animal screaming out a bugle as he’s coming to you, thinking you’re another bull elk trying to steal cows from his herd. Most of the time the bull elk coming in already has determined he will beat you up if he finds you. Hear what that's like.

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Elk and Mule Deer in Texas, New Mexico and Old Mexico

After we leave Texas and the enclosure elk hunt, I’ll be going to New Mexico to guide elk hunters for Mossy Oak. I’ll probably purchase a black bear tag to hopefully be able to take a black bear after the person I’m guiding fills his elk tag, depending on how many days are required to get my hunter the elk he wants to take with a bow.

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August Hunters Can Take Hogs, Elk and Deer in California

I always tell my hunters to take as many hogs as the number of arrows they bring and the amount of money needed to buy as many hog tags as they want to take in California. We have a year-round hog season in California with no limit on the number of hogs you can take. But you do have to have a big game hunting license and a hog tag. If you want to purchase

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Elk, Blacktail, Hybrid and Mule Deer Hunting in August

My first hunt was on August 1, and I was guiding a bowhunter on a private land management program. The State of California, in conjunction with outfitters and landowners, has a program that allows the landowner and/or the outfitter to improve their lands for wildlife. Then the state allots the landowner or the outfitter a certain number of tags, depending on the amount of property that he or she has improved for wildlife.

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Early Season Bowhunting in California

According to Cremeans, “Most of the country’s early bow seasons are in September and October. However, here in California, our bow season for Columbian blacktail deer begins the first of July, and we can offer some excellent blacktail bowhunts during July and August."

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