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DEER SEASON, DONE RIGHT.

Before you head into the whitetail woods, browse our extensive collection of deer hunting videos and articles. For beginners and experts alike. From thrilling hunts to helpful hints, there’s always something to learn from watching the country’s top whitetail hunters ply their craft — and whole a lot to enjoy.

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4 Steps For A Successful Spring Food Plot

Planting spring food plots? Check out all the latest ideas to a successful plot. Learn how to control weeds, find the right seed blend and more at Mossy Oak!

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Improving Wildlife Habitat is About More Than Big Bucks

By manipulating the habitat, increasing food for wildlife, building ponds, managing predators and doing the other recommendations of the GameKeepers program, we've not only improved the land for us to hunt and fish, but also improved the amount of wildlife we have. We've improved it to the point that our family can enjoy the time we've put in as GameKeepers to provide more wildlife for more people.

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Growing as a GameKeeper: Predator Control and Education

Becoming a GameKeeper is seeing how all the different parts of habitat management come together to make ideal habitat for deer and turkeys. Predator control is one aspect of managing wildlife that’s often overlooked. Besides foxes, coyotes, coons and possums, the Smiths also trap beavers.

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Managing Deer Pressure, Duck Holes and Clover for Turkeys

Bob and Suzie Smith of Lexington, Tennessee, joined the Mossy Oak GameKeepers ProStaff in May 2017, when they were recommended by another ProStaffer, Jason Patterson. One of the limiting factors of attracting deer and holding them on your property is hunting pressure. “We really struggle with that element of game management,” Susie said. “Last season I spent a lot of time in the Buzzard Box trying to take the Swamp Monster . However, when I

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Smiths Started GameKeeping Using Trail Cameras

“When we first started putting out trail cameras, we’d only see one or two bucks all year long,” Suzie said. “But in the 2017 season, after managing our property for wildlife, we got trail camera pictures of 22 different bucks on our property.” By creating travel corridors and food plots for the deer, the Smiths realized that they drastically could increase the number of bucks coming to their property during deer season. They also instituted

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Husband and Wife Team Manage for Wildlife

Bob and Suzie Smith of Lexington, Tennessee, joined the Mossy Oak GameKeepers ProStaff in May 2017.

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Six Steps To Weed-Free Perennials

It’s a sickening feeling. You put in long hours of hard work on your food plot—removing rocks, fertilizing, tilling, cultipacking, sowing seed, and carefully nurturing the plants until you have a gorgeous field of nutritious forage for the deer on your land. Then gradually you watch as weeds and grasses take over. Soon your lush green field becomes barely recognizable as a food plot for deer. Every weed and grass imaginable seems to have found

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Pickled Deer Heart

The organs can be some of the most nutrient-dense pieces of any wild game animal. Especially, the heart!

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Advantages of Supplemental Feed for Deer

Read our feed for deer blog post at Mossy Oak and know why providing a year-round source of supplemental nutrition for your whitetail herd is very important!

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Basic Venison Chili

Any time of the year is a good time for chili, especially venison chili. As with any recipe, you can always adjust the amounts of ingredients to your personal tastes.

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Understanding Patterns and Calling for Predator Hunting

I once caught five bobcats out of the same trap placed in the same location. The following year, I caught four bobcats in that same trap. So, I learned that you can pattern predators much like you pattern deer. Year after year, predators will return to some of the same places where you’ve caught them previously. Predators are much like cockroaches and wild hogs – you can beat their numbers back, but you’ll never entirely

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Fewer Predators, More Deer and Turkeys

To have more wildlife on your property, especially deer and turkeys, you must manage predators. Mossy Oak GameKeepers ProStaffer Michael C. Johnson of Plainfield, Georgia, started trapping and harvesting predators about nine years ago. Johnson has been a Mossy Oak ProStaffer for three years. Michael Johnson | Mossy Oak ProStaff I started hunting and trapping coyotes, foxes, raccoons and possums, because they were keeping turkey and deer numbers down on the properties my family and

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Venison Sloppy Joes

Ditch the Manwich and cheap hamburger buns. You and your hunting buddies (or house guests) will appreciate the extra TLC that goes into this hearty, home-cooked sloppy venison sandwich. It’s still easy and inexpensive to prepare, but it’s a major step up from the Sloppy Joes you ate as a kid. My latest batch came from a tasty Montana mule deer.

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GameKeepers Can’t Overlook the Importance of Water for Deer

As GameKeepers, we often emphasize planting and habitat management, but we can’t forget the importance of having plenty of water on the property we’re managing for deer and turkeys. Although wildlife gets much of its water from the foods they eat, in drought conditions, the deer can become very stressed or may have to travel long distances for water.

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Establish a Deer Management Plan as a Team

Managing deer hunting pressure on your land is key to the number of bucks you can hold on your property, no matter how large or how small the land is. If we identify a buck we’d like to take in a certain part of our property, we don’t hunt that buck except when the wind, the weather and the hunting conditions provide us with the best opportunity to see and take that buck.

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