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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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The Benefits of Being a Female Hunter

I’m on the outside looking in, and I’ve always hunted deer with my dad. So, my understanding why other women don’t hunt is hard. But I guess it’s like one of my girlfriends who never had hunted or known anyone who did. After meeting me and moving into our town where the culture in our town is that everybody hunts, she started hunting and really likes it.

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How to Stay Warm While Hunting

I have lived in North Dakota for 26 years. In that time, I have hunted some very harsh conditions. It’s never an easy hunt but the rewards can make it well worth the effort. There are many factors involved in comfortably hunting cold weather including proper preparation, quality clothing, individual tolerances and plain ole determination. Here are some of my tips for not just surviving a cold weather hunt but actually enjoying it.

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Balancing Work, Family and Hunting

I really love hunting with my dad. I've hunted with him ever since I could walk in the woods. Since I've had children myself, finding time to hunt with my dad has become more difficult. But most of the time we usually get to hunt together at least once a week, which is great.

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Reconsider Hunting Public Lands

Private-land hunters are taking a tremendous amount of pressure off public lands, and this factor may be the reason we’re starting to see some really-nice bucks coming off New York’s public lands. I just learned recently that there’s much more public land in the State of New York than I ever realized. That’s the reason our family is starting to look into how much public land is available to be hunted.

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Rochelle LeClaire Makes Time for Hunting for Her Family

Rochelle LeClaire lives in Schaghticoke, New York, in eastern New York, and has been a member of the Mossy Oak ProStaff for five years. She hunted with her dad, grandfather and brother, until she was old enough to get a hunting license. Although married and with two small children, Rachelle hunts as often as possible and enjoys preparing and eating wild game.

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Mossy Oak's Top 10 Articles of 2017

Here are ten of our most popular articles on MossyOak.com for 2017. Deer hunting, food plots, land management, new pattern and a chili recipe.

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Public and Private Land Hunting in Pennsylvania

In the past, finding a place to hunt where you didn’t see a large group of other hunters was an issue in Pennsylvania. But if the hunters will spend more time and do more research, they can pinpoint places now where there’s less hunting pressure and more deer, and the odds of taking an older-age-class buck are much better.

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Pennsylvania Deer Hunting Restrictions Has Its Pros and Cons

The biggest buck I've ever taken in Pennsylvania scored about 130 inches. Back when I took that buck, he was considered a trophy buck. Today however, because of Pennsylvania’s antler restrictions and liberal un-antlered season, we’re seeing much bigger bucks in Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania Deer Hunting Seasons

Before Pennsylvania’s legalization of crossbow hunting during deer bow season, I could hunt public state game lands and only see one to three bowhunters during the entire bow season for deer. But since crossbows were legalized for hunting deer, I see many more hunters during bow season than I’ve ever seen before. However, even with the legalization of crossbows, I still see fewer deer hunters during archery season than I do during gun/deer season.

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Finding a Place to Hunt in Pennsylvania

Private land hunting in Pennsylvania always has been difficult. Generally, if your family doesn’t own private hunting or farm land you can hunt, if you don’t know somebody who has private land to hunt who will let you hunt there, or if you haven’t gone out well before the season and convinced a landowner that you’re an ethical hunter and you'd do all you can to help him take care of his property, then getting

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Deer Hunting in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania always ranks within the top five states in the United States for number of deer hunters. I have hunted Pennsylvania for 40 years, where you'll usually see more hunters than deer. Pennsylvania’s deer herd statewide has been in a process of change for the last several years.

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Post-Rut Deer Hunting is a Concerted Effort

We’ve learned that on the day when deer are moving after the rut, there usually will be a tremendous buck movement on that same day on other properties close to the land where you're seeing bucks. After I took my buck, we sent Taylor a text that said, “Bingo, I've got my buck. Now it’s your turn to take one.”

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Terry Drury's Post-Rut Muzzleloader Hunt in Iowa

I took my next post-rut buck during the second firearms season in Iowa. I was hunting my brother Mark’s farm on December 9, 2017, only two days after I’d harvested the Missouri buck. When I'm hunting Mark’s farm, I don’t try to guide the guide. I just go where Mark tells me to go and do what Mark tells me to do.

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Terry Drury’s Post-Rut, Crossbow Buck

I'm almost certain the reason this buck came out and presented the shot is because we were hunting with cold temperatures and a full moon. We had a north-by-northwest wind, a bluebird day and a rising barometer about 30.28. All the conditions were right for bucks to be on the green fields.

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Jake Meyer's First On-Camera Texas Buck

This was the first morning of my 8-day hunt just outside of Eldorado, TX. We were setup up in a well-known travel corridor catching the deer coming from their primary food source back to their bedding area. We were seeing a large amount of deer since first light.

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