Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

We Are Gamekeepers

Outdoors people across the world are aspiring to become conservationists, satisfied more by creating and providing habitat for wildlife than hunting. The harvest of wildlife is and always will be a highlight, but it’s more a part of the whole.

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Protecting Yourself From Ticks

Spring is here and with the warmer weather and gobbling turkeys, comes the dreaded tick. Any GameKeeper will tell you that there is nothing worse than after a day in the field to look down and find a tick. Follow these quick tips on protecting yourself from ticks and enjoy the outdoors! Preventing Ticks The first step in protecting yourself from ticks is prevention. These tips can help stop ticks before they have a chance

Deer, Turkey, Fishing, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Small Food Plots Can Still Increase Wildlife

More and more hunters are beginning to learn that small properties - often as small as 5-10 acres or as much as 500 acres - can be great places to hunt, to own and to increase the wildlife living on that property.

Deer, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties, BioLogic

Tips for Patterning Your Turkey Gun

Have you ever patterned your turkey shotgun? I mean really put it through the paces with several different manufacturers’ loads and shot sizes to determine what shoots the best through your gun? I can tell you that each gun is a bit different and something is going to perform best. Don’t just shoot what your local sporting goods store has on sale. Take an hour, some butcher paper or targets, cardboard boxes, maybe a realty

Turkey, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Firearm

Tips For Applying Grass Specific Herbicides

As winter winds down, some areas across the nation may have already started to see a few warm season weeds emerging. This is a sign that it may be time to start spraying your plots. This includes spraying perennial fields containing clovers, alfalfas, chicory and the like for grasses, as well as using non-selective herbicides for preparing fields for warm season annuals. Herbicide applications on weeds are much more effective when the target weeds are

Conservation, Land Management, How-To, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Plenty of Places to Hunt Predators

When I include the public game lands and the private farms where I have permission to predator hunt, I probably have between 100,000 and 150,000 acres where I can hunt predators. On public lands, hunters can take coyotes 365 days per year in Pennsylvania. We can’t use thermal or night vision here for predator hunting, but we can use hand-held and/or portable lights at night. To hunt coyotes, you just need a general hunting license.

Small Game, Predator, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Removing Predators, Increasing Deer and Turkeys

I don’t find many landowners who understand how many turkeys and deer fawns they can save by predator hunting on their properties. Here in Pennsylvania, we’re working hard to get our buck-to-doe ratio at a more balanced level. Our does usually start dropping fawns in April, and sometimes when we’ve been out mowing fields in July, we’ll jump up fairly young fawns then. So that tells us that the does in our region are dropping

Deer, Turkey, Predator, Conservation, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

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