Big Game

IN PURSUIT OF SOMETHING BIGGER...

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.

Filter

Michigan’s Michael Adams on Turkey Tactics

Michael Adams from Linden, Michigan, has been a Mossy Oak pro for 7 years. The director for television station WJRT Channel 12 in Flint, Mich., he’s been hunting turkeys for 10 years.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak

Kentucky Elk Offering Kids a Shot

One of the most coveted tags in all of the outdoors, Kentucky’s quota elk hunt offers the public a chance to chase wild elk in the Bluegrass State. The annual lottery is open to the public, but chances of a non-resident drawing a rifle bull tag run in the neighborhood of one in 600. A handful of tags are allotted by the state’s wildlife commissioner to charitable organizations to be raffled or auctioned for a

Big Game

Taking Home a Memory of a Lifetime and a Gobbler for the Table

Since the hunt is over when you squeeze the trigger, why not get the most fun, excitement and joy that you can out of a turkey hunt? By being a little bit more patient and watching that turkey do all he can do before he leaves, or you harvest him, and waiting on the turkey to fight the decoy and then watching that fight, I think takes turkey hunting to an all together different level.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak

Wait for the Fight to Get the Most from Your Turkey Hunt

In my opinion, the single most-important ingredient to have a successful turkey hunt is not your calling ability or the way you position your decoys - it’s learning and practicing patience. Any turkey hunter who has been hunting turkeys for any length of time has had at least three or four turkeys that he’s thought have left and aren't coming in that have spooked when he’s gotten up and not seen them.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak

J.J. Kent Says to Change Your Decoy Spread Each Time You Set Up to Call Gobblers

During the spring, our Rio Grande turkeys have a set pattern. They gobble from the roost. Then when they come off the roost, the hens will come to them, and they’ll often breed the hens close to the roost tree. When they find a hen to breed, or they learn that none of the hens want to breed, the next thing they do is go and feed. To take a turkey, you’ve either got to

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak, Firearm

3 Tips for Taking a Tom

While there are numerous important points that can mean the difference between a 25-pounder hanging on a limb by its spurs and an unused tag, the following three subjects are among the most vital.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Why J.J. Kent Likes a Two Blind Set-Up and to Set-Up Decoys at 12 To 14 Yards

I’ll set-up my hunters in a pop-up blind with Mossy Oak Break-Up Infinity camouflage. I can have one or two hunters in one blind, and I’ll set-up a second blind right beside and touching the hunter’s blind. I’ll sit in, call, video and shoot digital pictures from this blind that has a window on both sides as well as a window that opens to the front. The hunters will zip down their sides, and I’ll

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak, Firearm

How to Get the Most Out of Your Turkey Hunt

J.J. Kent owns Kent Outdoors in Pottsboro, Texas about one hour north of Dallas where his hunters have about 20,000 acres to chase turkeys like he has for 32 years. The Regional Mossy Oak Pro Staff Manager for Texas, he's a Pro Staffer for Zink Calls and Avian-X decoys.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Obsession, Firearm

Tracy Groves on When Turkey Hunting Is More Than Bagging a Gobbler

I really love spending time in the woods with anybody who gets emotionally torn up when a turkey gobbles and becomes even more excited when a turkey moves in close. We don’t always have to harvest a bird to have a successful hunt. Again, that’s the difference in a woodsman and a turkey hunter. Often, a turkey hunter feels like he fails if he misses the shot, or if he doesn’t get the shot. But

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak, Firearm

The Importance of Passing the Turkey Hunting Heritage On to Family and Friends

A woodsman learns the double joy associated in calling in turkeys or finding deer for his/her family member, newcomers to the sport and people who’ve never had an opportunity to hunt and take gobblers. The woodsman knows where to set-up, when to call, what calls to use and when to stay silent. He often knows how to manipulate the turkey (if that’s possible) to put the gobbler in front of the person he's guiding. When

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Tracy Groves on Whether or Not to Shoot Coyotes, Bobcats, Foxes and Other Predators During Turkey Season

When you're calling turkeys, you're also calling predators. If I see a coyote or a bobcat coming in to my calling, and if I’m hunting in a state where harvesting coyotes and/or bobcats during turkey season is legal, I’ll shoot the predator and let the turkey go free. I know that I can come back to that same spot another day to hunt a turkey, and more than likely, I’ll harvest the turkey then. But

Big Game, Turkey, Predator, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak

Tracy Groves Tells How to Recognize a Crow Convention

Most hunters know that one of the ways you often can make a turkey shock gobble is to blow a crow call. So, they may pay attention and listen when they hear a crow call. However, when a woodsman hears what sounds like a crow convention going on, he needs to realize that those crows may have spotted a turkey out in a field or in the woods. For some reason, crows like to drive

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak

Why the Woodsman Takes More Turkeys

One of the things I've noticed is that many hunters overlook the sounds of the other critters that tell a turkey hunter about a turkey. For example, the gray squirrel gives us insight into what’s happening around us in the turkey woods. Many hunters don’t pay attention to the gray squirrel. But when a squirrel starts barking from a tree,and you’re totally camouflaged in Mossy Oak, and know he hasn’t seen you move, realize he's

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak

Steve Coon on Whether the Bird’s Bad or the Hunter

I think that turkeys get a bad rap. Sometimes they’re labeled as bad turkeys when they're really not. Sometimes I think the hunter makes mistakes, or the hunter just doesn’t know how to bring a gobbler within gun range. Here are some tips that may help you take bad birds and also good birds.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Steve Coon on How to Take a Silent Gobbler

If a turkey becomes silent, then neither the predators or the hunters know where the bird is. So, when I have a bird gobbling on the limb, then while he's still in his roost tree gobbling, I want to get that bird as excited as possible. After he gobbles, I want to call back to him so aggressively and quickly that he’ll nearly choke himself trying to get another gobble out of his mouth.

Big Game, Turkey, How-To, Mossy Oak