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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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Bamboozle Mr. Snooty with Fake Scrapes

Mock scrapes are great for attracting mature whitetail bucks. Learn more about mock scrapes and how to make your own from Mossy Oak.

Big Game, Deer, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Mike Monteleone Explains Other Places Bucks Bed

During early bow season in September and October, bucks have the same problem hunters have: bugs. Bucks often will bed on the tops of hills or mountains for two reasons. Generally the air will be cooler the higher they move-up a mountain, plus there may be a slight breeze. Both of these conditions help to keep bugs off the deer. However, generally, does, for some reason, tend to bed in low areas where there are

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

How to Pattern Bucks on Small Properties with ProStaffer Mike Monteleone

At any given time, I’ll have 10- to 15-different pieces of property to hunt. The properties I hunt primarily are small, from 8 to 400 acres. I put out Covert trail cameras that run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year, even on properties I’ve hunted for years. From my cameras, I’ve learned where to put up my tree stands, when to put them up and when to move

Big Game, Deer, How-To, Mossy Oak, Bow

To Take Big Whitetail Bucks

Mike Monteleone lives in Westminster, Maryland, and has worn Mossy Oak camo since 1988 and hunted deer since he was 13-years old. He also is a member of PSE’s Pro Staff and is the Mossy Oak area staff manager for Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and New Jersey.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak

Does Count with ProStaffer Parrish Elliott

By taking does in the early season, I get tuned-up to hunt a buck. I then can better handle the excitement of having a deer within bow range, steadying my nerves and making a good shot. I like to put three or four does in my freezer at the first of the season. Then, I become a Hunter for the Hungry, giving the surplus does that I harvest to the food bank. Most of the

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Do Trail Cameras Spook Deer

Arguably trail cameras are one of the top new tools introduced in the hunting industry in the past 30 years. Trail cameras are a loyal hunting companion that will sit there in the rain, snow and wind and record every animal that passes by that point. Even if you're not using them for scouting, what about the education they can give you? Despite the extraordinary advantages trail cameras give you, there are some hardcore trophy

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak

The Rocky Mountain Challenge

Planting food plots for mule deer in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, who would have thought the “Rockies” were a good place for such a plan? Apparently no one except me! I found that out while doing research to plant one such plot. I also learned that the details on Rocky Mountain food plots was about as limited as the details on plant species mule deer require and what they prefer in a food plot

Big Game, Deer, Land Management

ProStaffer Parrish Elliott and His Hit List Buck

One of the advantages of using game cameras, if you use them effectively, is you can get pictures of about 90 percent of the deer living on the land you hunt, or that pass through the land that you hunt. One of the advantages for hunting small places, I can put seven cameras on places as little as 8 acres or as much as 60 acres and see almost every deer that lives or passes

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Food Plot Crops that Bring Down Big Bucks

During late summer and fall planting season much of what will be sewed are seeds that grow plants meant for attraction. Some of the plants also have great nutritional value too, but most hunters really don’t think about that. They want a plot that will give them harvest opportunities. For this type of a “hunting plot,” plant selection, plot design and timing your plantings are very important components for success.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management

The Downtown Buck Deer with ProStaffer Parrish Elliott

I took a nice 10-pointer inside the city limits where I live. A friend of mine had permission to hunt 70 acres and invited me to hunt with him one day. I knew this area fairly well, because it was near where I had grown up. The deer always had been on these 70 acres. I could remember seeing deer on this property back when I was a teenager.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak, Bow

Parrish Elliott Says to Stay Away From the Deer

Before opening day of bow season, the deer in my area are usually in the agricultural fields. I try and stay as far away from those deer as I can and still be able to see them. I use my binoculars and generally remain in my truck to observe the deer. I have a spot, on one place that I hunt, that is 300-yards away from the agricultural fields. I can sit there in my

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Strictly Personal

In the popular mafia flick The Godfather, the line of “it’s not personal, it’s strictly business” is frequently used to differentiate between matters of business and friendships. It’s a great concept; certain things are intended to be handled on a personal level, while others are to be taken seriously. David Westmoreland of Kansas’ Prairieland Outfitters runs his operation as the antithesis of the above notion; he places an emphasis on personal relationships and a client-first

Big Game, Deer, Nativ Nurseries

Take Early Bow Season Deer

Parrish Elliott of Fairview, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville, has been a Mossy Oak Pro for 7 years, a deer hunter for 25 years and a bowhunter for 20 years and has taken more than 80 deer with his bow.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak, Bow

David Welch Is Eyeball to Eyeball with a Big Bull Elk

I knew I couldn’t get another arrow on the string and draw without him seeing me, so we had a staring contest at about 40 yards. After the bull had looked at me for a long time, he just turned around and walked off. I don’t know what he would have scored. When I get in close to a bull, I try not to look at the antlers after I decide he’s a bull that

Big Game, Mossy Oak, Bow

David Welch Is Face to Face with a Blacktail Deer

I was hunting blacktail deer in the wilderness area of California on the side of a steep ridge where the deer were holding. This ridge had no cover but manzanita bushes, granite rock and oak brush no higher than my knees. On this day, I was wearing Mossy Oak Bottomland camo and working my way to another area early in the morning, hoping to find a buck. I was going up over a little rise

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak, Bow