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Why You Should Practice Herd Management

Managing your doe population is key to seeing more bucks during the rut. Here are 3 reasons for why should manage your deer herd.

Big Game, Deer, Conservation, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

The Early Bird Gets the Worm and the Buck

As I’ve mentioned yesterday, most public-land hunters want easy hunts. They’re more concerned about one or two extra hours of sleep than getting to their stands before daylight. If I know the woods will start to lighten-up at 7:00 am, I want to be in my stand by 5:00 am. I know that I’ll need 30 to 45 minutes to get from my truck to my stand site. So, I want to arrive at the

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak

Secrets for Public Land Deer Hunting

Fifty-year-old Kevin Hutchings, from Howell, Michigan, which is located close to Ann Arbor, has been hunting deer as long as he can remember. He was one of the original Mossy Oak Pro Staffers.

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Increasing the Size of Your Food Plots Every Year

Because does are having fawns every year, and your food plots are pulling deer off other properties, you need to grow more food for the additional deer coming to your lands to eat. The other factor you have to consider is that if the deer you're pulling off other properties find food and sanctuary on your land, then they have no reason to leave after they find the food and sanctuary.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, BioLogic, Mossy Oak

The Best Deer Management Is...

Any time we have land we’re planning to hunt, first, we survey the property and determine which portion of the property should be a sanctuary. After we have our sanctuary set-up, we plant green fields and/or crop fields where we can take bucks going into or out of the sanctuary. Sanctuary is the most-important factor in holding older-age-class deer.

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Having More Bucks Than Does on Your Land

Before winter sets in, I estimate that we may have as few as six does living on our property. However, during the winter months, we may see as many as 40 does feeding in our standing bean and corn fields. For the majority of the year, I really believe we've got our buck-to-doe ratio as close as it can be to one buck and one doe. So, if there are 25 to 30 bucks on

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A Great Way To Capture Late Season Bucks On Camera

Deer in the northern and Midwest part of the states are starting to wind down a little from the rut and move back into a little bit more of a seeking food pattern. For guys in the south, the season hasn’t even started to get good yet for the most part but deer are already feeling the early season hunting pressure. It can be pretty tough to get pictures of certain bucks you may be

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Holding On To Bucks to Watch Them Grow

Illinois has the soil types and the agriculture and the deer genetics to produce big deer year-after-year. The management system we use to attract and hold mature bucks is working. We use Covert trail cameras to identify and keep up with the movement patterns of the bucks on our property. The main farm is 134 acres, and drainages run into some timber on the property, forming an island surrounded by agriculture, about 1/2-mile from the

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The Promised Land of Deer Hunting

Mossy Oak Pro Steve Noble lives in Deckerville, Michigan, an hour east of Saginaw. He’s been hunting whitetails for 26 years and been a member of the Mossy Oak Pro Staff for 4 years. He’s also one of the hosts of “Maximum Outdoor TV” on the Sportsman’s Channel and the Pursuit Channel. The show is primarily about hunting whitetails, but also includes mule deer, moose, elk, antelope and bears and turkeys in the spring, as

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Three States with Three Weapons

To be a good conservationist, in many areas, you have to harvest a certain number of deer - both bucks and does - to keep the deer herds in balance, since most of the natural predators that feed on deer have been removed. To accomplish this, I set up bucket lists for each method of hunting I enjoy. For instance, for bowhunting, my bucket list is to try and take a buck that will score

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We Don’t Hunt Our Best Deer Stands until the Rut

In recent years, we’ve relied heavily on our trail cameras to create a hit list of the bucks we’re hoping to take on the properties we lease. However, we’ve discovered that the deer’s movement patterns seem to change more now than they ever have in the past. On some of the properties we hunt, our neighbors like to put their deer stands on the edges of the properties’ lines. I'm sure none of you have

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Taking a White-Tailed Buck Scoring 156

The biggest buck I've ever taken scored in the mid-150s, and I took him in Kansas. I was hunting back in the late 1990s right after Thanksgiving. As I sat in my stand, I was starting to be concerned about getting back to my home in Missouri, which was about 1 hour and 45 minutes from where I was hunting. I'm the basketball coach for my two daughters’ basketball team.

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Mossy Oak now the Official Camo of the NWTF

Turkey hunting and camouflage go together like turkey and dressing. And this holiday season, the NWTF is excited to announce a bigger-than-ever partnership with Mossy Oak that includes a feast of support for conservation and hunting and names Mossy Oak as the Official Camo of the NWTF.

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Where to Hunt Bucks in the Second Rut

To know which tactics will best serve you during late season it’s best that you “take your herd’s temperature.” That means you need to know the status of the herd. Everything will hinge upon temperatures, if you have snow and whether or not there are does left that haven’t been successfully bred yet.

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Temple Prefers to Hunt Closer to the Buck’s Food Source

I know all types of methods are used to pinpoint older-age class bucks. However, if I locate the deer’s primary food source, I've learned that I’ll find the bucks. I know that many hunters prefer to hunt closer to the bedding area than to the food source, and I’ve tried that tactic a few times. Maybe it didn’t work because of my lack of experience in hunting that way, but I've noticed, if I get

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