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.

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Wildflowers: 6 Improvements to Your Hunting Property

Wildflowers are the in-thing for land and wildlife management, and for good reason. Here are six reasons you should incorporate them onto your own slice of heaven or backyard.

Land Management, How-To

Getting Private Land to Waterfowl Hunt

I'm often asked, “How do you get permission to hunt those big agricultural fields in Missouri?” The answer is really simple. I own an excavation company. So, I work with landowners every day. I understand the problems that they have with waterfowl hunters, and I've learned how to solve the problems that cause landowners not to let watermen hunt on their properties.

Small Game, Waterfowl, Land Management

3 Tips For Tree Planting Success

Tree planting time has been here for everyone in the South, and will be cranking up soon further North. Raising trees is addictive like other gamekeeping activities, but it often seems folks who have never tried it (or tried once and failed) put it off every year and year after that. Food plotting has become main stream and for most is an annual or bi-annual ritual, but tree planting and management “in the woods” still

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Biologist Bill Gray on Types of Deer Management for Private and Public Lands

Any form of deer management can’t be enacted, unless you first manage the people who’re going to hunt the deer. We have a unique situation here in Alabama, because for many years, we've had a liberal buck harvest, a liberal doe harvest and a huge deer population.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak

Alabama’s Jackson Woodson Goes on a Buck Diet and Doe Feast Plan

Since Alabama deer hunters can harvest 121 deer per season, per hunter, many sportsmen who hunt deer in states that don’t have limits as liberal as Alabama don’t understand why Alabama deer hunters don’t totally decimate the deer herd. But the average deer hunter in Alabama historically only has harvested 1-1/2 deer per season.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management

Top 4 To-Do’s For January

Deer season is dying down in January, but the work never ends. Here are four things you should be doing in January to support future hunting opportunities.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

A Management System for Overpopulated Deer Herds

Some areas of south Alabama never have had a closed deer season, even during the Great Depression of the 1930s. So, when restocking was occurring in north Alabama, deer populations continued to grow in south Alabama. At that time, the accepted philosophy on building up deer herds in Alabama was, “Don’t shoot the does, or you won’t have as many bucks.”

Big Game, Deer, Land Management

3 Tips to Prepare for Spring and Summer

One of the first things I like to do in February and March is pull soil samples on my plots and get them sent in to see if I need to add any lime and see what fertilizer will be needed for my warm season annuals that will be planted in late April/early May. If you had soil samples taken this fall you will already have an idea of where your plots are in needing

Land Management, How-To, BioLogic

Post Season Management Tips

With only a few weeks left in the deer season, it is a good time to start thinking about what can be done to improve your property, lease, or hunting club during the late winter. For folks that are really looking to improve body weights, antler growth, and overall health in their deer herd, the late winter is a great time to start supplemental feeding.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Hunting with Drew Keeth and Honey Brake Lodge

Sometimes when I’m waterfowling, I really don’t want to shoot. I’d rather just watch. One of those times was the first time I went waterfowling at Honey Brake Lodge in central Louisiana. I saw 100 or more ducks lighting in the decoys, and I was so excited that I wanted to observe that spectacle as long as I could before the ducks started dropping, and the other ducks raced to get away from the lead

Small Game, Waterfowl, Land Management, Mossy Oak

4 Tips When Planting Trees For Wildlife

A simple way to determine a suitable location is to look around your immediate area at the vegetation that already exists- if you see one particular spot that has taller or greener vegetation, plant your tree there.

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Packing on The Pounds

Cold temperatures typically drive sugar production and turn brassica blends to their most palatable state. Once this happens expect this to be the hottest food source in the area. Brassicas are like candy to whitetails. Different brassicas tend to develop their sugar at different times. Radishes, rape, canola, turnips and kale are all great plantings, and if you have enough ground all should be planted. This way you will have the most attractive planting available

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

5 Tips for Improving Your Spot

With most every state’s hunting season in full swing, GameKeepers are spending hard earned time in the stand. After a few hours of treestand time, you might start noticing a few adjustments that could improve your hunting success. Whitetails are constantly adjusting to food and habitat changes and so should you. Here are 5 considerations to improving your stand and hunting success.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Bow

Cutting Brush Before Waterfowl Season

Browse our duck blinds brushing ideas and check out the pros' system on cutting brush and getting prepared. Get ready for waterfowl season with Mossy Oak!

Waterfowl, Land Management, Firearm

Plan Your Stand Approach

Even if you have the best spot in the world, if you alert whitetails to your presence before you get there, it really doesn’t matter. Stand approach is an often overlooked aspect of the hunt. You must get to your ambush site without alerting any animals. Obviously wind direction and thermal current have to be considered, but masking your sounds and making sure you’re not seen are equally important. There are many strategies that can

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers