Land Management

REAP WHAT YOU SOW.

Watch and read along as some of the world’s most knowledgeable and experienced hunting land managers show you proven strategies for turning your property into a hunting paradise. Get expert tips on everything from seasonal food plot placement and plant species selection to the state-of-the-art equipment that helps you to tend it.

Filter

Timeline for Developing Hunting Land

For the past five years, I’ve been able to take my limit of two shooter bucks for the year off these three properties.

Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

You Only Need Enough Land for a Deer to Put Four Feet Down

The size of the property isn’t nearly as important as where the property is and what you do to attract and hold wildlife on that property.

Deer, Land Management

Flipping Hunting Lands: Improve, Hunt, Sell

We buy small properties, improve them for hunting, hunt them for 1-2 years and then sell them for a profit.

Turkey, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Properties

5 Core Trail Camera Uses for Deer Managers

If you follow these five core uses for trail cameras you can turn your cameras from a recreational toy to a gamekeeper’s tool. Use your trail cameras to help make management decisions this season.

Deer, Conservation, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

3 Whitetail Management Strategies

There are generally three categories of herd management: Traditional Deer Management, Quality Deer Management, and Trophy Deer Management. Let’s look at the differences.

Deer, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

4 Tips for Trapping More Wild Hogs

As landowners with skin in the game of controlling feral hogs, my wife and I have learned a few tricks that make us more successful and make the job a little easier. Here are a few tips that will help you.

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

The Deer Hunting Problem with No Solution

One of the biggest fears that many hunters have about planting food plots, managing timber stands and putting trail cameras out is that hunters on neighboring properties may take the bucks that they’ve been photographing and raising.

Deer, Land Management

Liquid Micronutrient Applications for Food Plots

Liquid forms of micronutrients can be applied to the soil as well as the plants themselves. One study showed a liquid soybean application of micronutrients resulted in a 50-percent absorption by the plant within 2-10 hours.

Deer, Conservation, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic

What to Plant, When to Plant It and How to Pattern Buck Deer with Mark Drury

You may be wondering how I’ve figured out what to plant where, and I’ve done this by studying the photos from my Reconyx trail cameras each season.

Deer, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic

How Mark Drury Manages Deer 365 Days a Year on His Properties

To have older-age-class bucks on the property you hunt, you have to put in time on the land starting in February and continue to improve the land and the herd all year long.

Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

How Mark Drury Consistently Takes Big Buck Deer Every Year

I think if you’re serious about deer hunting, you may want to consider having various places where you can lease or buy land for less money than you’ll have to spend buying one large property on which you manage deer.

Deer, Land Management

Wildlife Bridges

There are countless benefits of having wildlife corridors on your property. The key is understanding where they should be and creating a plan that develops practical habitat that is wildlife friendly.

Deer, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Managing Predators for More White-Tailed Deer

There is a lot of information out there about the impact of predators on many of the animals we love to pursue.

Deer, Predator, Conservation, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Manage Your Property and More with the OnX Hunt App

The OnX Hunt App includes all you need to manage your hunting property. Mark waypoints, entrances and exits, tree stand locations, food plots and more.

Deer, Turkey, Fishing, Land Management

Bear Kelly Hunts Big Game with Bows, Guns and Muzzleloaders

In 1996, the late Dick Kirby, creator of Quaker Boy Calls and longtime Mossy Oak enthusiast, started mentoring Bear Kelly as a trapper. Bear primarily bowhunts, but he also hunts with a gun, a muzzleloader and a crossbow.

Deer, Predator, Land Management, Bow