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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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3 Reasons Deer Management Creates Hunting Opportunities

Keeping the population down to a manageable density and balancing the buck to doe ratio is key in creating a more intense rut and increased competition for does. Keeping deer numbers down to manageable levels is also beneficial to your native browse and food plots.

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Booking Your Canadian Dream Hunt

I'm often asked, “Cody, you’ve lived in Canada all your life. Many whitetail hunters dream of going to Canada one day and hunting the big whitetails and mule deer that live there. What advice will you give someone on how, when and why to hunt with a Canadian outfitter when he or she finally decides to take that Canadian deer hunt of a lifetime?”

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A Life in Outdoors Television

Another of Jim’s Shockey’s friends was Arley Claypool, a deer-hunting guide at Jim Shockey’s deer camp. Jim knew that I had hunted and guided a lot of territory around my home. He thought I might be able to help Arley find a big mule deer and video the hunt. So, Arley and I spent quite a bit of time together, but Arely’s reputation had preceded this hunt. Arley Claypool was known far-and-wide as having four

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The Hindquarter Elk Slide

As far back as I can remember, anytime my dad took an elk, he'd call my mom and me, and we’d go and help him pack the elk out. They always let me pack out the head. I thought it was neat to be able to take a big ole elk’s head and antlers out in my pack. I had a .243 Remington, the smallest caliber allowed for big game hunting. I had shot a

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Passed on 3 Bulls and Then...

I was 17-years old, and I was on my first bowhunt for elk. My dad wouldn’t let me hunt with a bow until I could pull back 55 pounds, and I had to be able to hold that weight for 30 seconds. He was really strict about that test. After I let that 4x4 walk past me, my Dad got on my case. He told me, “Hunting elk with a bow is much harder than

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Make A Small Plot. See Big Bucks.

For most of you, archery season will open in the next few weeks and a lot of hunters will be looking for an edge to get that easy 20 yard shot on a buck. One very effective tactic for filling an early season tag is to have a small food plot in an area you know that buck will frequent. Basically you are taking the food to the deer.

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Elk Hunting & Football

I played football in high school. As you may know, football practice starts in August, and we play throughout the entire elk season. So, I had to divide up my time between football practice and elk hunting. One morning my dad, Dale, and I decided to go elk hunting early, and then come back for football practice late in the afternoon. We hunted close to home. Before we started hunting, we walked in 4-1/2 miles

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Taking Big Bulls on Public Land

In the last 5 years, I've seen more archery elk hunters in the woods than I've ever seen since I've been hunting. I think this influx of elk bowhunters is partially due to the fact that bow companies have started building faster, more-accurate bows than we’ve had in the past. Also, we've got better sighting systems than we’ve had in the past, and more and more archers are practicing shooting at 100 yards and even

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3-Elk Family Hunt

My dad, Dale, and my little brother, Darren, were hunting with me. As we were walking in, we started calling and heard a bull behind us. We froze and waited to see what would happen. While we were still and quiet, the bull walked up about 10 yards behind me and started bugling for about 15 minutes. Sitting there listening to that bull bugle 10 yards behind me was the most nerve-racking experience I'd ever

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The Garden Muley

Every year, my wife, Meghan, and I grow a garden. We still can our vegetables in the fall. This particular year, just as our sweet corn was just about ready to be picked, the deer got into our sweet corn and ate every bit of it. So, I made the decision. Instead of putting sweet corn in the freezer, I was going to put one of those bucks in my freezer.

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Hunting Antelope in Wyoming

One of the frustrating aspects of antelope hunting is if you're riding down a road between two different wildlife units – let’s say one of those units is Unit 55 on the left-hand side of the road, and the other is Unit 56 on the right-hand side of the road. Perhaps the trophy antelope always seems to be on the side of the road in the Unit where you don’t have a tag. Also, remember

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Trophy Elk Without The Trophy

Out here in Wyoming, elk season usually starts September 1 and ends in December. The best way to find out what areas are open. and when they’re open for archery, muzzleloaders, and modern rifle is to go on the Wyoming Game and Fish webpage. It has that information available every year. Usually, in September, there are still a few regions that open up for archery and a few areas open up for rifle season. Before

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Hunting Moon Instead of Honeymoon

My husband, Eric, and I hunt public lands here in Montana during archery season. Quite a few archers come to Montana to hunt elk. However, there are about five times as many rifle hunters as there are bowhunters. We spend a good amount of time scouting and looking for places to hunt elk where most other bowhunters won’t hunt. One of the advantages we have where we hunt is that we hunt many places we've

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Bucket List Buffalo with Mossy Oak Pro Jim Stephan

Hunting American bison in a fair-chase situation always has been on my bucket list. I grew up in Michigan. Of course, we didn’t have any bison there to hunt. When I got the opportunity to move to Wyoming, I began to see all the different types of animals that lived there. Then, I learned that I could apply for a buffalo tag and actually get to hunt one of these critters.

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Wendy Drake's Biggest Bow Bull Elk

Last year I took the biggest bull elk I ever have taken. The bull was a 5x5, and he almost scored 300 Pope & Young points - in the 290 point range. My husband, Eric, and I had driven to the eastern side of Montana to hunt. The first morning of the hunt we spent scouting to try and decide where we wanted to set-up to take a bull. That afternoon Eric and I hiked

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