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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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Tips for Helping Whitetails Feel “Safe” In Your Food Plots

Have you ever had a really nice food plot that the deer just didn’t seem to use that much, especially during the daylight? One really easy way to encourage whitetails to use a food source is making them feel safe. The older age class of both bucks and does can be really shy of big, open fields or food plots that are void of close cover. Here are a few suggestions you can try to

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Allen Treadwell’s Best Buck Deer Scored 164

We were hunting in Oklahoma and had talked to some bowhunters who had seen a big buck on the edge of a milo field. They said there was no way they could hunt this good deer with their bows. One of the problems with the word “a good deer” is the person that’s qualifying the size of the deer. “A good deer” by some hunter’s standards may be a buck that scores 110 inches. When

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The Double Barrel Loader: Your New Insurance Policy

The hunting industry is growing year after year with more products available for us as hunters. Each year I come across a few products that truly help me be more productive in the field. I call these products “game changers,” because they are unique and designed to help the hunter harvest more animals. The Double Barrel Arrow Loader is one of those “game changers” that I will be using year round on my bow.

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Allen Treadwell Tells Us How 30 Days of Preparation Enabled Him to Take the Big 8

While hunting in Kansas, one of the toughest bucks that I ever took was Big 8. I found him in the early season. My outfitter saw Big 8 in a part of the ranch that he never had seen him before. The buck was with a doe during the rut. So, the first thing we did was to put out some trail cameras to try and define Big 8’s home range

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Allen Treadwell Gets the Edge on Taking Big Bucks Right Now

Right now, we’re creating mineral sites. I prepare a game plan to have the food the deer love best planted somewhere on my property, during the time they prefer that food. Luckily Mossy Oak BioLogic has food plot plantings that can help deliver the food the deer prefer best in the area you hunt, at the time of year you’ll be hunting.

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Allen Treadwell on How He Became a Professional Hunter and Perhaps You Can Too

I'm often asked, “How does someone become a professional hunter like you?” I can’t speak for other professional hunters. The way I got on with Bass Pro Shops, eventually working with two of their shows, and being on their Pro Staff was through competitive and Olympic shotgun shooting. The second thing someone generally asks me is, “How does competitive shooting relate to being a professional deer hunter?” The answer is quite simple.

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Allen Treadwell: Secrets of a Professional Hunter

Allen Treadwell from Seligman, Missouri, was a world champion in the international skeet shooting discipline and was on the Olympic team as a shotgun shooter. He was first sponsored by Bass Pro Shops as an Olympic shotgun shooter, then on the Bass Pro Shops’ professional hunting team and the company’s “King of Bucks” TV show. He’s also been featured on the “Winchester Rack Masters” TV show. His main focus is white-tailed deer. Treadwell says, “I

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3 Top Plant Types for Whitetail Food Plots

Many of the most attractive plantings for whitetails end up also being some of the most nutritious too. Timing and placement dictate when and how they will be used from north to south. While there are dozens of crops that can be attractive to whitetails, here are the top three plant types that will attract whitetails at different times throughout the season.

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Ashley Jay – A City Girl with a Country Heart

I didn’t grow up in a hunting family or in the country where I would have had a lot of opportunity to hunt. I was born in Miami, Florida, just outside the Everglades. But I always had a passion for the outdoors and being outdoors. So, my parents bought me a horse.

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QDMA Reaches Record Membership

QDMA set an organizational record for winter and spring membership growth, recruiting more than 7,000 new members in the first four months of 2014 and reaching a record level of nearly 55,000 members in the United States and Canada. “QDMA is in the strongest position in the organization’s history,” said CEO Brian Murphy. “Membership is growing faster than at any time in our history, new volunteer Branches are on the rise, and we are having

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Check Out the Many Different Species of Deer in California

We probably have the most diversity of deer in the United States here in California – six different species. We have California mule deer, Rocky Mountain mule deer, feral mule deer, southern mule deer, Columbian black-tailed deer and a cross between a black-tailed and a mule deer.

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Everything You Need to Know About Planting Food Plots

Do you plant food plots? Are you interested in planting food plots but not sure where to start? If so, this is your lucky day! The GameKeepers of Mossy Oak are offering a free download of their Food Plot Planting Guide. It’s 96 pages of useful information on how to platn and manage food plots to improve the hunting on your property. Whether you’re up north or down south, you’ll find these tips and techniques

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Brenda Valentine: First Lady of Hunting

Brenda Valentine, the "First Lady of Hunting" ™ - from Puryear, Tennessee, represents women in the outdoors for the (NWTF) National Wild Turkey Federation and co-hosts Bass Pro Shops' outdoor TV shows on the Outdoor Channel and the Sportsman Channel. She’s been a member of Bass Pro Shops National RedHead Pro Hunting team for 17 years, a Mossy Oak ProStaff member, a pro staffer for Hunter Safety Systems and Orca coolers and a past national

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Mossy Oak Pro John Phillips – Deer Hunter, Student and Professional Football Player

A good deer hunter studies the land he’ll be hunting. He gets clues from the deer signs in the woods. Maybe he has trail-camera pictures that actually show him the buck he’s trying to take. Then the deer hunter tries to determine when and where that buck will be the most vulnerable. Professional football is much like being a good deer hunter. You do everything you can to put yourself in a situation to win

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Turkey Thugs, American Veterans and Mossy Oak Pro John Phillips of the San Diego Chargers

A friend of mine in Dallas had set-up a hunt, and we took veterans with us to hunt whitetails and hogs. Last year, we hunted turkeys with the veterans. This year, the Mossy Oak Turkey Thugs came in to help guide veterans on hunts. I thought, “What a great thing for a company like Mossy Oak to do – send in its team of turkey hunters – the Turkey Thugs – to help us take

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