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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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Wyoming's Old West Invitational Turkey Shoot

It's 4 a.m. and snowing so hard that I can barely see the road. We have 40 miles of gravel through Wyoming's Black Hills to reach our hunting spot. Thankfully the GPS lady in my phone knows the way, because I am in 4-wheel drive and struggling to see the road. It takes a while longer than usual, but we finally reach the ranch we are assigned to hunt. An hour later the sun is

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An Antelope and Duck Hunt for Maddy

Donnelle Johnson, also a Mossy Oak Pro Staffer, and I were teaching a hunting course at Cabela’s. We met 20-year-old Madelyn (Maddy) Crowley, a student at the University of Wyoming. Maddy was working at Cabela’s and took some time off to come over and watch our “Introduction to Archery” seminar. Maddy asked us if she could go an archery hunt with us.

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Lisa Thompson Tells About Her Family of Four Elk Hunt

I was able to purchase an over-the-counter elk tag to hunt in Walden, so Keith, my husband, and I took Kassidi and Kelli, our twin girls with us to hunt because they like to be in the out-of-doors. We take both girls every October and generally get a bull tag and a cow tag. Keith was hunting by himself and Kassidi, Kelli and I were on the edge of an open park, waiting for that

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Lisa Thompson on Hunting Turkeys, Deer and Antelopes

Mossy Oak Pro Lisa Thompson lives in Littleton, Colorado. Growing up, Lisa was fortunate enough to be in a family where hunting and fishing were major parts of their lifestyles. “My grandparents, uncles, aunts, Mom and Dad all liked the outdoors,” Thompson says. “Hunting and fishing were a way of life for our family.” Lisa’s husband, Keith, also grew up in Colorado in an outdoor family. Lisa hunts primarily big game, elk, antelope, mule deer,

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Paul Butski’s Favorite Turkey Hunts

Although newcomers to the sport of turkey hunting often make mistakes, spook gobblers and miss gobblers, I really enjoy hunting with newcomers who never may have seen a wild turkey before. Watching them see that turkey come in strutting, drumming and putting on a show is one of the things I like most about turkey hunting.

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Paul Butski: I Turkey Hunted With Roy Rogers

Since I hunt all over the country, I'm often asked, “What subspecies of wild turkey do you like to hunt the most, and which subspecies do you like the least?” I mainly hunt eastern wild turkeys and Osceola turkeys, which are my two favorites. Because of the steep mountains, the deep valleys and how much hiking you have to do to get to a Merriam’s gobbler, I guess he would be the gobbler I like

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The Silent Gobbler and the TV Show with Paul Butski

I guess some of the most frustrating hunts I've had were hunting and taking turkeys that didn’t gobble. On one hunt this year, I had scouted and seen plenty of turkey sign, and I knew turkeys were in this particular area. If you’ve hunted turkeys long enough and you understand how to scout for turkeys, oftentimes you'll walk into an area, and even though you haven’t seen or heard a gobbler, you just know there

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The Turkeys That Get Away with Paul Butski

Because I'm a member of the Mossy Oak Turkey T.H.U.G.S. TV team, I usually hunt 10-different states on an average each season for the show. I'm often asked, “Is there any difference in hunting turkeys by yourself and hunting turkeys for a TV show?” I explain, “Yes, there is a huge difference.”

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Hunting Turkeys with Paul Butski

Paul Butski from Niagara Falls, New York, has been hunting turkeys for 47 years and entered his first turkey-calling contest in 1978. He has won three National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) Grand Nationals, six U.S. Open Championships and the Levi Garrett Open twice. Butski was one of the first turkey-calling contestants who signed with Mossy Oak at the very beginning of the company. Butski is also one of the hosts of the “Mossy Oak Turkey

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Going To School on Turkeys with Mike McGreevy

Growing up we didn’t have many turkeys here in New York. But as the flocks increased, I became very interested in wild turkeys, because I could hunt them in the spring when there wasn’t anything else to hunt. Our deer season closes in mid- December, so I had a long wait until I could get back in the woods again. Today, our turkey season starts on May 1 and runs through May 31.

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Bruce Hooper on How to Outhunt State Land Turkey Hunters

Close to our house there’s a little field right beside a veterinarian clinic. On top of a hill beside the small field and the vet clinic is a piece of state land. The veterinarian owns that field that’s about the only access to the state property. Once you clear the field, you can walk up a little hollow to get on top of the 60-70-acre ridge owned by the state. I'm pretty certain that no

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Hunting Turkeys in the Northeast with ProStaffer Bruce Hooper

Bruce Hooper lives in Gansevoort, New York which is located 30 minutes north of Albany and 10 minutes south of Lake George. Hooper has been hunting turkeys for about 12 years, and he's been a Mossy Oak pro for 8 years. During the 2016 season, he wore Mossy Oak Break-Up Country camo.

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Jason Pollack Tells Us How He Deals With Turkey Hunting Pressure

I've harvested turkeys on Sugar Hill, which is state property that anyone can hunt. Sugar Hill has 8,900 acres, but this particular public land doesn’t get a lot of hunting pressure. When I'm hunting there, I may only see two or three other hunters. The number of turkeys in our area seems to have been on the decline. So, on Sugar Hill, we don’t seem to hear as many gobblers as we once did. Since

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Jason Pollack Tells Us about Taking His Greatest New York Gobbler

I've only mounted one turkey as long as I've been hunting, but that old bird was really special. I had set up on this turkey several times during turkey season and actually gotten him to within gun range one of those times. However, I was hunting with a turkey scope on my shotgun in a driving rain. As I looked through my scope, I noticed that the front lens of the scope had rain all

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Jason Pollack Remembers His Toughest Turkey Fight in New York

I found this gobbler just before youth season one year on about 400 acres. I hunted him regularly throughout the season right up until the next-to-the-last day of turkey season. Every time I called to him he'd gobble and gobble and gobble. He’d come in to about 50 or 60 yards and hang up. Some days, he'd fly up on a limb to look for the hen who was talking to him. I was able

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