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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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Reason for the Season

Most of us have at least a couple weeks or more of deer season left to hunt this year and many of us have filled our freezer and more by this time of year. If you live in the southern states you are gearing up for the rut and ready for a shot at the bucks you have protected all year. Guys and gals in the north and Midwest who haven’t filled their tag yet

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Lisa Jane on Why She Likes Bowhunting and How the Sport Empowers Her

I’m often asked, “Why do you believe women should consider shooting a bow?” I believe all women should have at least a rudimentary working knowledge of firearms as well as archery. However, I like the challenge of a bow. You have to be aware of so many things about the bow from your form to anchor point to be able to shoot it successfully. I think every woman should shoot archery, because the sport is

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Lisa Jane: Non-Hunter to Avid Hunter

Lisa Jane Barron, known as the Writing Huntress, and her husband currently live in a township of 16 people in North Dakota, a far cry from her hometown of Rochester, New York. She’s been writing and spreading, according to her, “Social media hunting cheer,” for the past 3 years through her blogs Hunt Like You’re Hungry and Ask the Writing Huntress.

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Supplemental Significance

Providing nutrition the entire year-round for your whitetail herd is very important. Insufficient nutrition levels leads to weight loss, poor conception rates, lower fawn recruitment, increased vulnerability to disease…and where it counts to some gamekeepers most - poor antler development and increased mortality rates. Food plots are extremely important, but many managers have a difficult time supplying food plot forage during the winter months in the north, or in areas where you simply cannot supply

Big Game, Deer, Conservation

New World Record Alaska-Yukon Moose

A new world record for Alaska-Yukon moose has been recorded by the Boone and Crockett Club, one of the official record-keeping organizations for big game in North America. On September 25, Heinz Naef of Dawson City, Canada bagged a moose that has been scored at 263-1/8 net at the meeting of the Stewart and Yukon rivers that can be only described as enormous. Even after a lifetime of hunting moose, Naef said that the animal

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Jeff Propst on Big Whitetails, Bulls, Family and Mossy Oak

Honestly, what I love best about being a Mossy Oak Pro Staffer and a hunter and videographer for “Bow Madness” is having that one-on-one time with my son every fall and spring. I’ve been able to watch him grow as a hunter and an outdoorsman. I’ve been with him on some of his greatest hunts, and he’s been on mine. Chris understands why we hunt and that hunting is a conservation practice; he respects the

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Jeff Propst on the 7-Yard Public Land Bull Elk

Although hunting public land can be a pain for some, I enjoy hunting public land for elk, especially in New Mexico, because I like to be in control of the hunt. New Mexico’s elk season spans 10 days on the land that I hunt. Hence, I can go there and hunt all 10 days of the season.

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Jeff Propst on Here Comes the Bull Elk

In 2008, my son, Chris, and I were elk hunting in Montana. On the morning of the fifth day of the hunt, we switched gears and began to spot-and-stalk. The afternoon found us sitting over water holes. We’d heard many bugling bulls were around the ranch we were hunting, so we followed the bugles from one bull to the next, trying to get a shot.

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Jeff Propst’s 195-Inch Iowa Monster Bow Buck

Just as I was sitting down, I heard Chris say, “Dad, get your bow ready. Here comes a giant buck.” I looked around to where Chris was motioning and was slightly dumbfounded. Walking with purpose in our direction was an absolutely monster-sized buck.

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Hunting with Jeff Propst of Bow Madness TV

After lunch, as we headed back to our spot, Chris wanted to do some practice shooting with his field tips to ensure his bow was still in tune. We were quietly discussing our plan for the afternoon sit when Chris, pulling one of his arrows out of the ground, whispered, “Here comes a big buck, dad.” Sure enough, I turned and noticed a nice buck walking right toward us.

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We’re Not Hunting Hoot Owls

The hunters I hunt with always have been more fun and more enjoyable than any-other aspect of the hunt. If you’re a seasoned veteran of hunting, and if you want to put some spice into your hunting, this year, take someone with you, who never has hunted before. You both will make memories that will last a lifetime.

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Putting On The Feedbag

As this runs, the rut in the north is, for the most part, finished, but things are still “happening” in the south. For whitetails, this time of year is all about perpetuation of the species and putting on enough weight and fat to survive the winter. Even though bucks cut their food intake for a period surrounding the peak of breeding, does continue “putting on the feed bag” throughout the fall months and into early

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You Can Get Too Excited Hunting Turkeys

I’ve seen people get excited on turkey hunts before, however, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a fellow make himself sick, because he’s gotten excited hunting, but I guess that is a good thing.

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Cuz Says a Dead Turkey Isn’t Always Dead

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a cartoon any funnier than these two hunters leaving their guns on the ground where they had been kneeling beside the turkey then picking up rocks and sticks, as they ran and throwing them at the turkey, until they finally caught-up to the bird and put him down.

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Cuz Says a Dead Deer Isn’t Always a Dead Deer

I was doing an interview with this hunter and had to change tapes in my old video camera. The whole time we were walking up to the deer, I was concerned, because I couldn’t see an entrance or an exit point of the bullet. But the deer had dropped right where he stood like he’d been shot in the spine. As I turned around to take my used tape out and put a fresh tape

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