Big Game

IN PURSUIT OF SOMETHING BIGGER...

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.

Filter

Choosing an Elk Call

Mossy Oak ProStaff member Parrey Cremeans talks about choosing an elk call. Parrey goes over different types of calls and how they are used.

Big Game, Mossy Oak Mountain Country, Video, Mossy Oak

Owen Orthmann: Taking Bears and Bucks with a Puff of Air

One of my most memorable trips was when I had a bear in range. I was sighted in right behind its shoulder. I blew into my straw to fire the bow but nothing happened. I had forgotten to plug the device that fires the crossbow into the battery that powers my wheelchair.

Big Game, Predator, Bow

Owen Orthmann’s Mentor – Outdoor Writer Otis “Toad” Smith

My caregiver Heidi goes with me when I bowhunt for deer, because she likes to hunt as much as I do. When she’s hunting with a muzzleloader, I leave my crossbow at home and go with her. Fortunately, we know quite a few quadriplegics that live here in the Twin Cities who hunt, although not very many of them have my level of injury. I think one of the reasons that more quadriplegics don’t bowhunt

Big Game, Video, Bow

For the Love of Hunting with Mossy Oak Pros Owen Orthmann and Heidi Kern

Owen Orthmann lives in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota. With the help of his long time caregiver Heidi Kern, he has been a member of the Mossy Oak Pro Staff ever since it restructured by Tim Anderson. Orthmann strictly bowhunts and takes deer, bear and antelope with his crossbow. Even though he is paralyzed from the tops of his shoulders down, he’s refused to give up the sport he loves so dearly.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

The Pajama Mule Deer Buck

Colorado’s mule deer and elk season arrives at about the same time. I usually buy a tag for both mule deer and elk to try and take one of these animals for the freezer, because we enjoy the meat. I was at home one day last season taking a break from guiding. My boys woke up a little before I did on this particular morning. They came running into my bedroom, shaking me and hollering

Big Game, Deer, Bow

Mossy Oak presents SEEK ONE web series

Our goal is to show people that adventure is not constrained to wild remote places and that hunting is not defined by big woods and rural parts of the country. If you look hard enough, adventure can be found in the most unexpected places and can become part of your everyday life like it has for us. We have a "leave no rock unturned" policy, and that’s what has made us successful over the last

Big Game, Deer, News, Mossy Oak

Understanding Air Currents For Hunting Success

Whitetails use their extremely sophisticated sense of smell in every part of their life so learning to play the wind, or possibly more importantly, how whitetails play the wind, is vital to consistent hunting success.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

The Strangest Muzzleloader Elk Hunt Ever

With the muzzleloader season already having started on September 10, 2016, and lasting for 10 days, I remembered a muzzleloader hunter I’d had last year. We had covered a lot of ground on this hunt. Then we heard a large group of elk out in front of us, but night was fast approaching. So, we decided to go back to camp and make a plan.

Big Game, Firearm

Elk, Bears and Hunters Don’t Mix

“What the heck is happening? There's no reason that bull shouldn’t come in to my calling. He should be trying to herd cows, and I'm sounding like several cows. I'm giving that bull all the right calls he needs to come to me.” Then, I noticed something on the ridge behind us at about the same elevation as the bull - a mama black bear that was popping her jaws, looking at us and huffing

Big Game, Predator, Bow

Hunting Elk and Mule Deer with Mike Miller

“Can I call you back?” Mossy Oak Pro Mike Miller of Canyon City, Colorado, asked me when I called to interview him for the Mossy Oak website. “I've just finished field dressing and quartering an elk and am putting the meat in game bags. Then I've got to hike back to camp, get some horses, return here, load the meat on the horses and return to camp before daylight.” Miller has been a Mossy Oak

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Cuz Strickland, Will Primos and the Sears and Roebuck Video Camera

Just before I started working for Toxey Haas and Mossy Oak, a fellow named Will Primos from Jackson, Mississippi, was making turkey calls that he called a True Double-Mouth call for calling turkeys. Will was making those calls in a garage behind his house. About that same time, the first video camera that I ever saw or heard of arrived at the Sears and Roebuck store in Natchez, Mississippi.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak

30 Years of Mossy Oak: Bill Epeards

A friend of mine, Dick Kirby, the founder of Quaker Boy Calls, and I were friends for 40 years before he passed away. Dick called me one night and said, “Bill, there’s a new camouflage company called Mossy Oak. I'm wearing it now, and this stuff really works. Would you be willing to try it out?” I answered, “Sure.” So, within the next few days, I got a package of Mossy Oak clothing.

Big Game, Mossy Oak

How to Decoy an Antelope

Mossy Oak ProStaff member DJ Randolph talks about how to decoy an antelope. DJ shares what type of decoy works best and when to use it.

Big Game, Mossy Oak Mountain Country, Video, Mossy Oak

Knowing Deer Season’s Here and Deciding What You Need to Do

By the time you read this article, bow season in Georgia probably just will have opened. In Georgia where I hunt, we can take two bucks and 10 does each year. In the county I live in, there’s no antler restriction on the first buck I take, but the second buck has to have at least 4 points on one side. Because I only can harvest two bucks per season - but I can take

Big Game, Deer, Bow

Bowhunting Deer on Small Properties

Learn from the Mossy Oak pros about bowhunting deer on small properties. Read the advantages and disadvantages of hunting with a bow on small acreage.

Big Game, Deer, Bow