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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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Preacher Jacob Aranza Bags an Osceola Turkey

I had guided Randy Nader to his gobbler on Saturday, and the next day on Sunday afternoon, a new group of hunters arrived. My hunter for the second Seamark hunt at Dee-Dot was a pastor from Louisiana, Jacob Aranza. He was a great guy to spend time with in the woods, and we went to another food plot and set up for an afternoon hunt.

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[VIDEO] Friction Call Materials

Mossy Oak ProStaff Member and turkey hunter Scott Hinojosa talks about the different materials turkey friction calls are made of.

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Keith Kelly’s Turkey Hunt at Florida’s Seamark Ranch

Seamark Ranch, a faith-based ranch that’s a children’s home, is located in Clay County close to Green Cove Springs, or about an hour from Jacksonville. Every year we have a charity hunt at the 26,000 acre Dee-Dot Ranch that I manage for the Seamark Ranch. It’s not far from the property I manage, and all the money that hunters pay to go on this hunt goes to help support the Seamark Ranch.

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Keith Kelly Talks Decoys for Osceolas

In south Florida, the terrain is much more open, and decoys are almost a necessity because we hunt these south Florida turkeys like you hunt field turkeys in other states. However, when I say, “Decoys are almost a necessity,” you can take Osceola turkeys without using decoys, if you hunt with a buddy who’s also a good caller. We hunt Osceolas by using decoys to lure them in to where we are.

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Turkey THUG Keith Kelly Gives Back

Keith Kelly from Jacksonville, Florida, says, “I’ve had an unbelievable turkey season in 2016.” Kelly, a Mossy Oak Pro Staffer, has been one of Mossy Oak’s Turkey THUGS for the past 5 years and is one of the hosts of the Mossy Oak Turkey THUGS TV show. A hunter for 35 years, Kelly has managed the 26,000 acre Dee-Dot Ranch of private land only, and hunted by private hunters for 18 years. Kelly’s favorite Mossy

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[VIDEO] Turkey Hunting Camo Patterns

Mossy Oak Prostaffer, Scott Hinojosa, tells us what Mossy Oak camo patterns work best for turkey season.

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Lessons David Hale Has Learned in Turkey Woods

Back when I was hunting in the Land Between the Lakes, which is a public-hunting area, if there were 1-15 turkeys harvested during the entire turkey season that would have been declared a great year for turkey hunting. Everyone else had left the woods on this particular day when at noon, I heard two turkeys gobble and went to them. As I drew closer to the birds, both longbeards would gobble, but I also noticed

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The Perfect Turkey Hunting Plan

By having a plan, managing time and exercising a little self-discipline, I have become a much better turkey hunter, maximizing my efforts to the areas turkeys move to throughout the day. Many of the toms that I have harvested were taken after 10 a.m. and may have been on my second or third tract of property hunted in a single day. For the greatest success afield, it’s best to hunt where the birds go throughout

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David Hale Explains When and Why to Use Turkey Decoys

If I’m hunting on a piece of property I’ve never hunted before, especially in a swampy or an open timber area, I may put a decoy out in front of my stand site, slightly off to my right or left. I don’t want to ever be sitting behind a decoy, even if it’s a hen decoy. A decoy is a visual that may be misidentified by a hunter as a live hen or gobbler. I

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Talking Turkey with David Hale

Mossy Oak Pro David Hale of Cadiz, Kentucky, started his turkey-hunting career in 1966. He’s a co-founder of Knight & Hale Game Calls, and Commonwealth Productions and cohosts the “Ultimate Hunting” TV show on the Outdoor Channel.

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Jim Shockey: Every Man’s Dream

I've been told, “You're one of the luckiest men alive to be able to hunt or participate in outdoors shows for 305 days of the year.” I guess I am, but people don’t see the toll this takes on my family. I've been married to my wife, Louise, for 31 years. If Louise wasn’t an amazingly confident and secure person, my being gone from home that long would put a strain on our marriage. However,

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Turkey Decoys in the Wind

During turkey season the weather can be windy especially in western states. To keep your decoys from spinning in the wind, Mossy Oak ProStaff Member Scott Hinojosa shows how to keep decoys from moving too much.

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The Hunt I'm Looking Forward to the Most in 2016

I'm going to Pakistan and going up the highway toward Islamabad. Next I’ll come off the highway and make a three day trek to the far mountains toward Afghanistan. I’ll be hunting an animal called the cashmere Markhor (a bovid mammal closely related to a wild goat). In the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece from Greek mythology, the goat he was after was a Markhor like the one I'm planning to hunt. Taking

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Jim Shockey’s Most Difficult Hunt Last Season

My most difficult hunt last year happened when I was hunting in Chad. Chad has been closed to hunting for several years, because the last outfitter hunting there was speared by a local tribesman. The country arrested the outfitter with a spear in his leg. Chad is located in central North Africa, and the countries around Chad are very unstable So, I knew there was an element of danger before I left to go on

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Jim Shockey’s Greatest Hunt of Last Season

Hunting always has been my passion, but my new passion is hunting more. Last year I was on the road traveling all over the world for 305 days,including the time I spent at trade shows and consumer shows promoting hunting and working with my sponsors like Mossy Oak. So,those 305 days weren’t just days in the air or days in the woods. Some of that time was related to the hunting business, which I also

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