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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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Biologist Bill Gray on Types of Deer Management for Private and Public Lands

Any form of deer management can’t be enacted, unless you first manage the people who’re going to hunt the deer. We have a unique situation here in Alabama, because for many years, we've had a liberal buck harvest, a liberal doe harvest and a huge deer population.

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Biologist Bill Gray on What’s the Best Deer Management Plan for Alabama’s WMAs

Bill Gray, a longtime wildlife biologist and supervising biologist for District IV for the State of Alabama, gives us insights on why deer hunters in Alabama have such a liberal deer season and can harvest 121 deer per season.

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Alabama’s Jackson Woodson Goes on a Buck Diet and Doe Feast Plan

Since Alabama deer hunters can harvest 121 deer per season, per hunter, many sportsmen who hunt deer in states that don’t have limits as liberal as Alabama don’t understand why Alabama deer hunters don’t totally decimate the deer herd. But the average deer hunter in Alabama historically only has harvested 1-1/2 deer per season.

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Top 4 To-Do’s For January

Deer season is dying down in January, but the work never ends. Here are four things you should be doing in January to support future hunting opportunities.

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A Management System for Overpopulated Deer Herds

Some areas of south Alabama never have had a closed deer season, even during the Great Depression of the 1930s. So, when restocking was occurring in north Alabama, deer populations continued to grow in south Alabama. At that time, the accepted philosophy on building up deer herds in Alabama was, “Don’t shoot the does, or you won’t have as many bucks.”

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Jackson Woodson on Legally Harvesting 100+ Alabama Whitetails Yearly

Mossy Oak Pro Jackson Woodson is from Spanish Fort, Alabama - one of the southernmost parts of the state. Alabama is one of the few states that has a February deer season, including Florida, Maryland, Mississippi and Ohio, so Mossy Oak asked Woodson and Alabama biologist Bill Gray why.

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You Need to Be Careful Not to Spook Late Season Deer

Since Minnesota’s deer often bed close to their food sources, then having somewhere to put up a tree stand in between their food sources and their bedding areas, almost will be impossible. To solve this problem, we’ll usually get one of our friends to drive us along the field’s edge, so that the vehicle spooks the deer. Due to the deer bedding near the agricultural fields where we hunt, they see trucks and tractors regularly

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The Importance of Noticing Small Things in the Late Season to Be Successful

Most often if you’re hunting in the afternoon in the late deer season, the does and the fawns will come into the field first. Then the smaller bucks will appear. Finally the big bucks you’re interested in taking will show up. To get a shot at a buck during the late season, you must be very conscious of all those deer noses, eyes and ears.

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Mistakes Afield Amplify in Cold Weather

I’m primarily a bowhunter, and I’m often asked how I draw effectively in below-zero weather. The first step I take is as soon as I get to my stand, I screw in my bow hanger. I want my bow to hang, so I have to make very little movement to take the bow off the hanger when I’m ready to make the shot. Many times a number of deer may be in front of me,

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Mossy Oak® and NWTF launch new Obsession® pattern

As the Official Camo of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF), Mossy Oak introduces the new Obsession pattern that includes the NWTF logo and true-to-nature elements from the spring woods.

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Taking Care of Your Equipment in Extreme Cold Weather

The secret to successful late-season deer hunting is dressing well and using numbers of handwarmers to stay comfortable, mobile and flexible for long periods of time in a tree stand. Since I hunt with a bow, I must be very conscious of keeping my muscles warm and flexible to make the shot, if and when a big buck deer comes in to where I’m waiting.

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Pat Reeve on Taking Late Season Buck Deer

Pat Reeve of southeastern Minnesota has been a Mossy Oak pro for almost a decade. His TV show that also features his wife is “Driven TV” on the Outdoor Channel. Reeve has been involved in outdoors television production for 25 years. Pat and Nicole hunt deer all across the U.S. and Canada.

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Mossy Oak Pro Staffer of the Year Bill Lewis on Why He’s a Bowhunting Mentor

The State of Nebraska has an archery mentoring program. To be a part of this program, a person has to be a certified bowhunting education instructor. Then the state signs up young people with a memorandum of understanding about what they’re going to learn, and what they're going to be able to achieve and provides a mentor to teach them. We teach them hunter safety, how to shoot the bow with both field points and

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Bill Lewis's Most Gratifying Experience

Even though I make a living with computers, I really enjoy getting young people away from their computers, drawing them out in the woods and teaching them how to hunt, where to hunt, how to put up a tree stand, how to shoot accurately from a tree stand and how to take deer with bows.

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Post Season Management Tips

With only a few weeks left in the deer season, it is a good time to start thinking about what can be done to improve your property, lease, or hunting club during the late winter. For folks that are really looking to improve body weights, antler growth, and overall health in their deer herd, the late winter is a great time to start supplemental feeding.

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