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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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My First Bow Buck with Taylor Drury

When I was very little, Dad had started me off shooting with a plastic bow-and-arrow set. When he finally thought I was strong enough to pull a very-small compound bow, he got me my first bow. When I got older and could pull a compound bow and shoot an arrow fast enough to penetrate a deer, my dad took me hunting. I never will forget that first deer I took with a bow.

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Taylor Drury: Growing Up Outdoors

No, Taylor Drury, the daughter of Mark Drury of Drury Outdoors, wasn’t wrapped in Mossy Oak when she came home from the hospital. But according to Taylor, “There is a picture of me hanging at home of me in Mossy Oak when I was 6-months old. So, I feel like I was born in Mossy Oak.” Now 18-years old and a freshman in college, this week Taylor Drury will talk about growing-up as a hunter.

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Love Thy Neighbor

Hunting season is a great time to run into neighbors, doing the same as you, enjoying the great outdoors. As long as you’re on good terms with your neighbor, it makes for an opportunity to tell them about your goals for your property and convince them into also improving their property, if they aren’t also already following sound Gamekeeper principals. Like-minded people can accomplish much more than one property owner trying to battle those around

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Two of ProStaffer Bucky Hauser’s Strangest Deer Hunts

I was in my stand, being quiet and sitting still when a power-company truck came in and started cutting and clearing the right-of-way on the property. They could see me in my tree stand less than 100-yards away from their chain saws and bush hoggers. They really thought it was funny that I was trying to hunt while they were cutting the right-of-way. When they finally finished and were leaving, they honked their horn, waved

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Bucky Hauser Tells about His Daughter Taylor’s 8-Point Buck

I have two daughters, Taylor, 13, and Tillee, 5. We have a corn and soybean field behind our house. Taylor’s grandfather, Fred Hill, had come to our house to take her deer hunting. She was 10 at that time, and I had been taking her hunting with me since she was 6-years old.

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Bucky Hauser Says to Get Off the Couch and Go Hunting Buck Deer

The day I decided to take off was the first day of the second archery season. My wife, Kelly, came in and saw me on the couch. She said, “Hey, Bucky, you need to get up and go hunting.” I didn’t really want to go, but she just kept insisting. This 120-inch 8-point buck only went about 125 yards. My wife was right in getting me up and sending me out to hunt.

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Maturing as a Deer Hunter

Mossy Oak ProStaffer Bucky Hauser lives in Claudville, Virginia. During the early years of his hunting career, he was a multi-state hunter and often hunted 4 days per week or more from October until deer season ended. He hunted on two farms in Virginia and also Canada, taking many fine bucks and enjoying great outdoor adventures. Bucky lived the hunter’s life we all dream of, but after he turned 40, his hunting focus changed drastically.

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You’ve got to Get There First

Keeping pressure low is a key to hunting undisturbed whitetails that will move freely throughout your property during legal hunting hours, and stand approach is the “front line” of the battle to keep pressure low.

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Finding the Stand Site That Produced 5 Bucks That All Scored 150 or More

The next year, in 2011, I set up two tree stands in that same tree and took my 15-year-old son, Jake, to hunt there. As fate would have it, the buck Joe White wouldn’t let me shoot the year before started coming toward Jake. My son took that buck. This was his third deer taken with a bow, and his second bow buck. He scored 158 inches P&Y.

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Dan Gritzner’s First Pope & Young Buck and the Secret to Finding Big Bucks on Any Property

In 2007, we began to see bigger and better bucks on our property than we ever had seen previously. About then, I started studying aerial maps to find out-of-the-way places on our property where nobody hunted. I looked for a funnel or an edge where no one else had been hunting. I wanted to identify these spots and then determine how to hunt them.

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How Mossy Oak’s Dan Gritzner Grows Trophy Bow Bucks Every Season

In about 2005, we increased the number of does we were taking off the land and started planting corn and soybeans for the deer. We also planted green fields with Mossy Oak BioLogic. We had some CRP property in the club, so we started taking better care of that. We have 240 acres on the farm and an adjoining 600 acres where we have permission to hunt, but we don’t plant any food plots there.

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Family Is What Hunting’s All About

As I remember that hunt, what I remember most is my dad and I in the woods together, trailing that buck, finding him, sharing the experience of taking the biggest deer of my life and dragging out the buck. I guess this is where I learned that the real joy of hunting is spending time with your children and sharing experiences that last a lifetime.

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Filling the Freezer Stage

I took my hunter safety course in 1994. I was 9 years old and in the fourth grade. Of course I learned plenty of valuable lessons during my 4 days in the class, but for the past 20 years I have always remembered learning about the Five Stages of a Hunter. The theory is that as hunters we all change throughout our lives and during those changes, we use different factors to determine what is

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Grow and Harvest Trophy Bucks

One of the most-significant hunts I’ve ever had was when Mossy Oak came out with the Treestand pattern. I do a lot of late-season bowhunting here in Iowa’s hardwood forests. One year I was sitting in my tree stand late in November, and our area didn’t have much snow cover. I had a buck walking straight toward my stand from a direction I hadn’t expected. As he came to me, he looked into the tree.

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Jon Lester Says Hunting is More Than Taking Game

I’ve learned that hunting is less about taking the animals and more about the people you’re with, the time you share together and the memories and relationships that come out of a hunt. In 2010, Tim and I went on anther hunt together in Alabama. Once again I was able to spend time with my friend Tim Anderson, meet more Mossy Oak people and become more involved in the company.

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