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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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David Welch Takes Pork Chops on the Hoof

I snuck-up on a big sounder of at least 50 wild hogs in that open terrain. I was able to take one of those hogs with my bow. Mossy Oak Brush camo blended-in so well that I just looked like a big clump in the grass to the pigs. The hog I took was a 200-pound boar.

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Shoot That Buck!

The flash of white antlers brought me to full attention. The buck was less than sixty yards away and slowly making his way through the cane thicket towards my stand. I recognized him with the first clear look through my binoculars. This buck was on our “shoot list.” This was the first daylight look at this beautiful east-central Alabama buck. Looking through my Nikons it took only a few seconds to make a decision, I

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Go Farther, Stay Longer and Hunt Harder

Because of the internet and the different hunting forms, learning about public-land hunting now is much easier than it was in the past. We have better equipment today than ever before, and since the equipment is so light, we can get farther back in the wilderness with less effort. Most people don’t like to hunt public lands due to the high hunting pressure. However, there’s a new world for the hunter out there in the

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Given the growing interest in Quality Deer Management (QDM) it’s not surprising that more and more hunters are talking with their neighbors and establishing QDM Cooperatives. A QDM Cooperative is a group of landowners and hunters working together to improve the quality of the deer herd and hunting experiences on their collective acreage. Cooperatives vary in size, number of participants, and structure depending on the needs and objectives of members. A primary benefit of cooperatives

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Cuz and Lauran Strickland Celebrate High School Graduation on a South Dakota Turkey Hunt

I took my youngest daughter, Lauran, to South Dakota, to try and take a Merriam’s turkey, for her senior trip after graduation from high school. One of the things I like about South Dakota is the ground is flat. Where we were hunting had very little vegetation, and we could see the turkeys at great distances.

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Redneck T-Post Gravity Feeder

When I first saw this feeder, I had so many applications in mind that would allow me to scout many different locations even if they were wet. The T-Post feeder is lightweight and easy to set up. It is a one-person only job. The concave back and grooves on the back of the T-Post feeder are made for ratchet straps to mount to a tree. I was able to set it up out of the

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Rubbed the Right Way

The best hunters will use trail-cam photos in correlation with what they learn from reading physical sign – and rubs are one of the best forms of tangible sign we have to help put you close to a mature buck. They divulge to you more than other forms of sign, and when used in union with other markers they can help to make you deadly.

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The Water Buck: Cuz Makes a Promise to Toxey

As long as I have lived, that video has been the most-embarrassing thing I ever have done. When we put the video together, Toxey reminded me, “We want to tell the whole story.” I knew he was right. I can honestly say that was the coolest hunt ever for me.

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Cuz Turkey Hunts with the Rock – Ryan Welch

The most-memorable turkey hunt that comes to mind first is a hunt I went on with the “Catch a Dream Foundation,” and a young man named Ryan Welch. “Catch a Dream” is an organization that takes seriously-ill children on whatever type of event the child wants to attend in the outdoors. Ryan’s dream was to go on a turkey hunt with either me or Will Primos. Ryan had a brain tumor and had quite a

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Antler Accounting

When it comes to maximizing your ROI by allowing a buck to live another year, what’s the best age to cash-in and harvest a particular buck? The answer requires more than basic financial skills, but a broader discussion regarding your management objectives, number of acres under management, habitat quality, etc.

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Dave Parrott’s Game Camera Evolution

I have a technology background and have worked on computers and phone systems. So, I understand the technology that’s required to build a trail camera. When I started studying digital trail cameras, I told myself that I should be able to build one and save myself some money.

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Dave Parrott Explains How to Bring Deer into Your Trail Cameras

I did some research using my homemade attractant and cover spray. I learned that if I put corn out in front of my camera, a buck would stay in front of the camera about 3 minutes and then leave. When I used my spray, as I recommended and put it on everything, the bucks would stay in front of my camera for 8 to 10 minutes.

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