Using Mock Scrapes For the highest concentration of buck pictures, place your cameras on active scrapes or create a mock scrape or two. Read More Deer, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers
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Mossy Oak Break-Up Country Selected as Official Camo Pattern of QDMA The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) has selected Mossy Oak Break-Up Country as its official camouflage pattern. Effective immediately, QDMA and Mossy Oak will synergize their efforts to defend the attacks that come against the health of the nation’s white-tailed deer herd and the overall right to pursue them. Furthermore, they will work together to increase hunter recruitment and retention. Read More Deer, Conservation, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News, Mossy Oak
6 Tips for Using Deer Decoys There aren’t many hard and fast rules when it comes to decoying deer; however, you can put the odds in your favor by using these tips. Read More Deer, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers
Preseason Scouting Tactics with Bob Walker When we talk about preseason scouting for deer, we assume that everyone knows what the term preseason scouting means. However, that’s not necessarily true. Unless you know what to look for, where to look and why to look, you'll get very little information from scouting on how to find and take older-age-class bucks when deer season arrives. Read More Deer, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic
Top 4 Tips for Treestand Placement Many hunters have questions about treestand placement. Every situation is different and there aren't any rules where there aren't exceptions. However, there are some general practices that will help in most situations when placing a treestand. Read More Deer, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers
Check for Landscape Changes Before Deer Hunting I have an old friend who lives near this WMA, and he told me that some type of tree bug had killed quite a few trees on this WMA, and those trees had fallen down. I want to check out those spots to make sure I can get to a place that I want to hunt, and I want to see how the deer are navigating through those downed-tree places. Read More Deer, Land Management, How-To
Use Your Ears When Scouting Deer On the first day of deer season, I went with one of my buddies and his 10-year-old son to help this young boy try and take his first deer with a bow. He had been practicing all summer long, and he could shoot accurately out to 30 yards. Read More Deer, How-To, Bow
Hunters Provide Millions of Meals Most hunters know that QDMA is among the nation’s premier conservation organizations, working every day to improve America’s deer hunting. What these same hunters might not realize, though, is that QDMA and its members have provided millions of nutritious meals to those Americans most in need. Read More Deer, Conservation, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News
Harvesting Does in Early Season Benefits the Herd and the Hunter If you don’t remove a portion of the reproductive segment of your herd, once the herd reaches the carrying capacity of the land, your bucks and does can’t grow to their full potential each year. That’s the reason we encourage people to take does during bow season. Harvesting does at the beginning of bow season also helps the archer get more comfortable with having deer in close and making accurate shots. Read More Deer, How-To, Bow
Deer Hunting with the Wind Let Mossy Oak show you the right way to go deer hunting on windy days. Check out tips and learn how to hunt in and with the wind successfully today! Read More Deer, How-To, Bow
Marsha Raley Hunts with Brenda Valentine Since taking those first two deer with my bow, I’ve taken wild hogs, turkeys and more deer with my bow. Wild hogs are getting to be one of my favorite animals to shoot with a bow. But one of my favorite hunts of all time was in 2015 when I went on a hunt with Brenda Valentine, the First Lady of Hunting. Read More Deer, Mossy Oak, Firearm
Bowhunting Patience and Persistence Pays Off for Marsha Raley The year after I took my first buck, I told my husband I wanted to learn how to shoot a bow and bowhunt for deer. So, I got a bow. All summer long, I shot that bow continuously. Then I planned to be ready to hunt during the fall. Read More Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow
Marsha Raley Learned How to Hunt on Her Own Marsha Raley of Maynardville, Tennessee, has been on the Mossy Oak Pro Staff for 4 years. She is a bowhunter as well as a gun hunter. She was born into hunting as her dad and her stepdad both were avid hunters. “Before I could hunt with either of them, I’d wait at the door for one of them to come home to see what they had in the back of their trucks,” she said. Read More Deer, Mossy Oak, Firearm
Ideal Tree Stand Locations: Using Funnels Whitetail travel from place to place using cover and terrain to their advantage. Learning to recognize the transition areas, access points, and travel corridors of whitetails is crucial to choosing your ambush location. In fact, if you choose the right funnel during the chase phase of the rut it can seem like “God just pulled the drain-plug on a sink full of deer.” Read More Deer, Mossy Oak, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers