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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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What Causes Hunters to Not Take Trophy Bucks with Giles Island’s Jimmy Riley

One of the reasons many hunters don’t harvest more trophy bucks is when they see those big-body deer with big antlers, they often go into panic mode and get stressed out. To help solve that problem, our hunters sit with their guides, and their guides are accustomed to seeing big deer. They try to help calm the hunter down, before he prepares for the shot. Another reason hunters stress out is they put way too

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Secrets for Producing Trophy Bucks Each Year with Giles Island’s Jimmy Riley

Let me explain from the beginning, taking trophy bucks whether they’re on Giles Island or anywhere else involves a lot of luck. The management system we have in place for our deer herd is the reason many of our hunters are so successful. First of all, we want to make sure we have plenty of deer for the hunters to hunt, and we want to be certain no one harvests our bucks, until they reach

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Early Season Whitetail Social Groups

Knowing the social structure of the herd during the time you intend to hunt is a key to getting calls, decoys or scent to work for you. In the “whitetail world” the time during early season (typically late August through October) is all about being social with other deer. However, they may not be social with the specific deer that you might think.

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Why Giles Island Has So Many Big Bucks and the One Named the Rock

We’ll harvest about 75 bucks per year off Giles Island. We classify our bucks as management bucks or trophy bucks – all shooter bucks. Less than half the bucks we take are management bucks. We define a management buck as an older-age-class buck with antlers that will score less than 125 on Boone and Crockett. We classify a trophy buck as a buck that scores more than 125.

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Giles Island Monster Bucks

Giles Island in the middle of the Mississippi River is famous for two reasons. On a sandbar on Giles Island is where the famous Jim Bowie, who fought in the battle at the Alamo in Texas, earned his reputation as a knife fighter, and where the legend of the Bowie knife started. Giles Island is also a legendary place to hunt and take big bucks. The lodge manager for Giles Island is Mossy Oak Pro

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Hank Parker Explains Why He Partners with Mossy Oak

In my opinion, Mossy Oak is more of a fraternity than it is a camo company. Wearing Mossy Oak identifies a person as living the outdoor lifestyle. When you wear Mossy Oak, it’s like being an Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio, Utah or any other college football fan or any professional football fan. We wear those team’s colors to show our loyalty and to be a part of that fraternity. So, for me

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Hank Parker: History Repeats Itself with More TV Shows

Cuz set-up a meeting between Toxey and me. As I listened, Toxey started talking about his dad, his kids, his business, what was important to him, and what he saw as the picture of Mossy Oak. I didn’t sit in that room very long before I realized that Toxey was talking about the same things I believe in, and I was completely blown away by the man Toxey Haas, who started Mossy Oak, and what

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Early Season Antler Rattling Tips

Although used during the rut, a rattle bag is a valuable tool in the early season. Find out when to start rattling for deer to optimize your hunting season.

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Craig Morgan Remembers His Favorite Hunts and Tells Why He Likes to Hunt

My most memorable hunts and the ones I look forward to the most are the hunts I go on with my family, my children and America’s wounded warriors. We try and do quite a bit with the military folks. During the summer, my kids go on the road with me some. But during the school year, they have sports and other activities at home - just like young folks everywhere do.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Rangefinder

Over the last few years, the technology behind rangefinders has skyrocketed. The quality, ease of use and effectiveness is mind blowing. I have compiled a few tips and tricks of how to get the most out of your rangefinder all season long.

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3 Key Reasons You Should Manage Your Deer Herd

Controlling expanding deer numbers in areas that need it is a great way to get kids, women, or a first time hunter involved in the sport. Do your part this year and make a point to take a under privileged kid or someone from a non-hunting family to the woods and show them why we are GameKeepers.

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Craig Morgan: More Than Country Music

Craig Morgan has been hunting for 35 years, has been on the Mossy Oak Pro Staff for the last 4 years, hosts “Craig Morgan: All Access Outdoors” on the Outdoor Channel and is one of the nation’s top country music songwriters and recording artists. This week we’ll take a closer look at this man who wears the Mossy Oak brand.

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In many areas deer won't come to crop fields or green plots until dusk or after dark. Or you may see deer leaving these agricultural areas just at daylight. So putting up a tree stand on the edge of a field may not pay buck dividends. You might need to pinpoint the trails the deer use to come and go and plan an ambush.

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Levi Morgan: Stress Doesn’t Kill – It Helps You to Succeed

I know my tournament experience has made me a better bowhunter. For instance, when I’m down to shooting my last arrow in competition, and that arrow can possibly produce $50,000 for the win, that’s a lot more pressure than I face when I'm in the woods aiming at a big buck. So, tournament archery has helped me develop a way to control my emotions and my nerves. When that one shot can make the difference

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Levi Morgan: Where His Love for Bowhunting Came from and Where He’s Going Now

Although I’ve had an extremely-successful career in tournament archery, most people don’t know where the love of archery came from for me. I was very fortunate that my dad, Mark Morgan, started me hunting when I was just a kid. When I was about 3, I can remember him dragging me through the woods, and I loved every minute of it. When I was 5-years old, Dad started taking me to archery tournaments - and

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