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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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Ryan Koelsch’s Tactics to Hunts Bucks and Trophy Whitetails

In Kansas, a resident hunter either can take a white-tailed buck or a mule deer buck. If you draw an imaginary line through the center of Kansas and decide to hunt west of that center line, you’ll have really good mule deer hunting and whitetail hunting. What’s made this area even better is there’s an abundance of public walking areas for hunting.

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Ryan Koelsch Takes Big Buck Deer Early in the Season

30-year-old Ryan Koelsch of Saint John, Kansas, had a problem, “My work was interfering with my deer hunting, and this problem was created by Mossy Oak.” Koelsch has been a Mossy Oak Pro for 5 years, starting to work for Mossy Oak Properties after graduating from college. “When I graduated from college, I had to go to work and spend a lot of time learning the real estate business. I quickly learned that just before

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Justin Losee Trusts Mossy Oak Camo to Hunt Elk Successfully

Today I always try to stand in front of a tree when an elk is coming to me. Then when the elk is in bow range I want to already be at full draw, pointing my bow right at the bull. When he presents the shot, all I have to do is barely touch the mechanical release on the string.

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The Wind Is Justin Losee’s Friend When He Hunts Elk

For me, elk hunting is like a chess game. I try to get into a bull elk’s head to make him think I’m coming after him, and that I anticipate his moves. An older bull elk is a very-intelligent animal and knows when another bull elk is coming to him and ready to fight to take the herd bull’s harem. That herd bull wants to know all he can about the bull that’s challenging him

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Justin Losee Fights Elk

I believe that until you get in to the bull’s house (120-150 yards from him), he is not really concerned about you. But by bugling and going straight to that bull, I will let the bull know that I’m in attack mode, and he is either going to fight me or move his cows away from me.

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30 Years of Mossy Oak: Mark Drury

2016 is Mossy Oak’s 30th year anniversary. The true value of any company is the people who work with and for that company. This new feature celebrating Mossy Oak’s 30th anniversary will be added for several months about some of the people who have become a part of Mossy Oak since 1986, grown with the company and are still a part of Mossy Oak today. In this article we hear from Mark Drury of Drury

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Kelly Hicks’ Backyard Mule Deer Buck

During the general rifle season, the mountains near my home are full of red and orange, with hunters standing on about every ridge. My neighbor Rush had wanted me to guide him on a mule deer hunt, so I told him to be at my house before daylight, and we’d go to a public-hunting area. I was confident he could take an animal there. The next morning, we arrived at the top of the mountain,

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Kelly Hicks’ One-Hour Mule Deer Hunt

The mountains behind Salt Lake City in Utah are called the Wasatch Mountains. If you get an archery season tag, the State of Utah offers what is called a Wasatch front extended deer hunt. The extended season is because these mountains are so close to Salt Lake City and home a large mule deer population. The deer during the winter month, go down to the suburbs around Salt Lake City, get hit by cars and

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Kelly Hicks Didn’t Know What a Whitetail Deer Looked Like

I always hunted mule deer, I grow up in town called Mountain Green near Morgan, Utah, and I started hunting with my BB gun as soon as I could walk. There was a stream behind the house where I could catch fish all day long, and I stayed in the woods or on the water as far back as I could remember. My mom had a big bell in the back yard, and she would

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How Kelly Hicks Hunts Mule Deer and Elk and Guides Other Hunters

Kelly Hicks of Bountiful, Utah, is a hunter of opportunity. Each season he buys mule deer tags and elk tags. Then when he has the opportunity to take either a nice mule deer buck or a nice bull elk, he’ll be able to harvest these animals, because he finds both species in the same places. Hicks has been a Mossy Oak Pro for the past 3 years.

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What You Should Tip Your Elk Guide

One of the questions I'm most often asked is, “What do you tip the guides?” Before I go on a hunt, I’ll ask my outfitter, “What does the guide expect for a tip?” Occasionally, we have people who hunt all week with us, and they don’t tip. I believe those people are just not aware of how the system works, or how a guide, a cook or a wrangler gets paid. My rule of thumb

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Why You Can Count on Your Guide to Make Up for Your Mistakes

I've often been asked, “What equipment do you take when you guide that most hunters forget?” When you're doing your interviews with your potential guide, learning that the guide may have extra equipment that you’ve forgotten to bring is important. I've guided more than 100 hunters to elk in the last 20 years, and I know what elk hunters often forget. However, we do send an equipment list out to all our hunters telling them

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How to Make Sure Your Elk Hunt Fits Your Physical Condition

If I'm choosing a guide or an outfitter and going to a place I've never hunted before, I want to talk to the guide before I arrive to hunt. One of the biggest problems in selecting the best guide for you is putting a man who is 60 years old or older with a guide who is a top-of-the-mountain kind of guide. On our hunts, we send out questionnaires with our contracts. On the questionnaire,

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What to Expect from Your Elk Guide or Outfitter

If I have a successful hunt, I'll expect the guide to help me field dress, quarter and get that animal back to camp. If I'm going on an early-season elk hunt, which may be in September, the weather will be warm. I’ll expect my guide or outfitter to help me get my meat cooled down or under refrigeration fairly quickly after I've harvested a bull. The guide or the outfitter is probably not going to

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How to Choose the Best Elk Guide

Parrey Cremeans of Redding, California, has been hunting elk for 30 years, guiding for elk 20 years and has been a Mossy Oak Pro 9 years. Each season Cremeans generally hunts three states for elk, depending on which tags he draws. This year he will be hunting four states for elk. He has previously hunted elk in Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and will hunt Arizona this year. “The only two states I haven’t

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