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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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How to Stay Warm While Hunting

I have lived in North Dakota for 26 years. In that time, I have hunted some very harsh conditions. It’s never an easy hunt but the rewards can make it well worth the effort. There are many factors involved in comfortably hunting cold weather including proper preparation, quality clothing, individual tolerances and plain ole determination. Here are some of my tips for not just surviving a cold weather hunt but actually enjoying it.

Big Game, Deer, Predator, Gear, How-To

Mossy Oak’s Mastodon Extended Pack Offers Hunters Top Quality at an Affordable Price

The Mossy Oak Mastodon extended backpack makes previously cost-prohibitive western packs accessible to the everyday hunter. The Mastodon, available in the new Mossy Oak Mountain Country pattern, comes in at over 4000 cubic inches of capacity and includes an adjustable harness that fits torso lengths from 15-22 inches. Numerous additional mountain-specific features to highlight include a meat shelf for packing out, a full-length fleece-lined scope pocket, a side hip rifle boot caddy, and a front

Big Game, Mossy Oak Mountain Country, Gear, News, Bow

Pegtooth Daypack Shifts the Weight of Quivered Arrows Off the Bow and Onto the Pack

The Mossy Oak Pegtooth daypack is set to revolutionize treestand hunting for bowhunters everywhere. Bowhunters pay good money for their bows in an effort to keep weight down; however, when a quiver is mounted on the riser and filled with arrows, it can quickly negate that weight reduction. The team at Mossy Oak Hunting Accessories set out to find a solution to this problem and discovered a way to bring the total bow weight down

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak Mountain Country, Gear, News, Bow

Gifts for Hunters: 5 Things to Get Him

These five gifts for hunters are sure to make the outdoorsman in your house feel extra jolly this Holiday season.

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Hunting Oryx in New Mexico

The trophy oryx hunts, and the broken-horn oryx hunts are offered on the White Sands Missile Range, and those hunts are regulated by the estimated number of oryx there. The hunts are held on different sites inside the missile range, depending on the population numbers in various sections of the range. I think your odds to draw an oryx hunt as a non-resident are very good, but you’ll pay $1,500 to get the tag.

Big Game, Mossy Oak Mountain Country

Tips for Late-Season Elk Hunting in New Mexico

The late-season elk tags are much easier to draw than the tags during bugling season, because the largest group of elk hunters want to hunt when the bulls are bugling. If you're interested in taking a cow elk, you just about can draw a cow elk tag every year for the late season in New Mexico.

Big Game, Mossy Oak Mountain Country, How-To

Late-Season Cow Elk Hunts with Youth and Women

One of the advantages of hunting cows during the late season is they're often much easier to locate than the bulls are, and they’ll usually be in big herds. Early in the morning and late in the evening, they’ll generally be in the lower meadows feeding. Taking a cow elk can not only reduce the cost of buying meat for your family, but it also gives you another reason to be out hunting elk.

Big Game, Mossy Oak Mountain Country, Firearm

Hunting the Rut for Late Season Elk

An advantage of hunting late-season bulls is that since the peak of the rut usually happens in September, by the late season, very few, if any, elk hunters are still hunting. Because the time change has taken place, dark comes earlier in the late season than it did in the early season.

Big Game, Mossy Oak Mountain Country

Keep on the Sunny Side for Late Season Elk Hunting

One of the advantages of hunting late-season bulls is that they usually return to the same places they’ve been in the year before, making them much easier to find. However, the really big bulls, like the herd bulls, often move out to solitary areas away from the other bulls and cows. The bigger bulls generally will hang out on the sunny sides of mountains during the late season.

Big Game, Mossy Oak Mountain Country, How-To

Hunting Deer in North Dakota Weather

In the past, I’ve mostly hunted from tree stands, but this year most of my hunting will be from ground blinds - just to be able to stay warmer. For most of deer season, the hunter’s number-one concern is how to stay warm while hunting. We often have minus-zero temperatures in North Dakota and possibility of 100 inches of snow, all factors that discourage deer hunters.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow, Firearm

Matt Drury’s First Elk Hunt in Mountain Country

Thirty-six-year-old Matthew Drury, the son of Terry Drury, is the general manager of Drury Outdoors. Although Matt’s been on many turkey and deer hunts, this season he went on his first elk hunt. The lessons he learned and the experiences he had could help us all learn how to and when to take trophy elk. Matt also put the new Mossy Oak Mountain Country pattern to the test to see for himself how effective this

Big Game, Mossy Oak Mountain Country

Matt Drury Finally Gets a Shooter Bull Elk

I could see the moon starting to rise over the horizon, and we began glassing. I was using my Leupold 10x42 binoculars when I spotted a very good bull with about six cows walking toward us about 200 yards below. I showed Ammo the bull and asked, “What do you think of this bull?”

Big Game, Mossy Oak Mountain Country, Bow

8 Tips for Rifle Hunting Elk for the First Time

Going on my first elk hunt taught me some things. Here are some things that I learned that may be helpful to the first-time elk hunter:

Big Game, Mossy Oak Mountain Country, Gear, How-To, Firearm

The Birthday Hog Hunt with Only a Knife

For my birthday present one year, I didn’t get the usual jewelry, perfume, romantic dinner or tickets to a play many women like. My husband bought me exactly what I wanted – a wild hog hunting trip to Louisiana. I’d hunted wild hogs before, and this hunt was special because we were hunting with Mike Jones with dogs.

Big Game, Mossy Oak

Planting Food Plots Out West for Blacktails, Mule Deer and Elk

Now we’re seeing hunters in Washington State and Oregon planting green fields for blacktailed deer. We also have some hunters in the West planting green fields for mule deer. Mule deer travel more than whitetails do, but the muleys still like something green to eat. The hunters who have planted BioLogic are reporting good success with feeding different types of deer. So, the use of green field plantings has proved over the years to be

Big Game, Land Management, BioLogic