Predator

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT PEST CONTROL.

From coyotes to feral hogs and all sorts of pesky predators in-between, our assortment of videos and articles will help you hunt, spot, stalk, call in and kill with lightning efficiency. Get expert tips on what gear to use and what calls to make, while learning both basic and advanced techniques from the most lethal predator exterminators in the game.

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The Importance of Base Layers for Cold and Warm Weather

Outerwear is an important consideration in protecting yourself from the elements but it’s what you wear under there that could arguably be the most important component of your hunting wardrobe. Thus it’s no mere coincidence that base layer apparel is also the area of greatest innovation in recent years.

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Coyotes Impacting Deer Fawns

It is no secret that during the spring and summer months of the year, one of a coyote’s favorite meals is a whitetail fawn. But how much impact do coyotes really have on a deer herd? And what can one do to protect fawns on their land?

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Why Every Hunter Needs an SLXtreme iPhone Case

This tough iPhone case is waterproof and certified military grade protection, so you’re covered if it falls from your tree stand, into a puddle or out of your pocket. And the Mossy Oak Break-Up Country Camo design allows you to use your phone without flashing colors or reflections that might scare game away.

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Facing the Bear

That night by the glowing lantern it was Karels, still pale and shaky from his ordeal, who had the best bear story. He humbly offered that he only did what he had to do to survive, and that it was Martin’s advice that had probably saved his life. But to the others he suddenly seemed much larger than his 6' 3", 220-pound frame.

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Plenty of Places to Hunt Predators

When I include the public game lands and the private farms where I have permission to predator hunt, I probably have between 100,000 and 150,000 acres where I can hunt predators. On public lands, hunters can take coyotes 365 days per year in Pennsylvania. We can’t use thermal or night vision here for predator hunting, but we can use hand-held and/or portable lights at night. To hunt coyotes, you just need a general hunting license.

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Removing Predators, Increasing Deer and Turkeys

I don’t find many landowners who understand how many turkeys and deer fawns they can save by predator hunting on their properties. Here in Pennsylvania, we’re working hard to get our buck-to-doe ratio at a more balanced level. Our does usually start dropping fawns in April, and sometimes when we’ve been out mowing fields in July, we’ll jump up fairly young fawns then. So that tells us that the does in our region are dropping

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Predator Hunting is Enjoyable and Beneficial

I enjoy hunting predators, but I also know its benefits for increasing the amount of wildlife on properties. I do most of my predator hunting on public lands. Up until five or six years ago, I was about the only one around my area who hunted public lands for predators. But then central Pennsylvania started conducting a large predator hunt for money, and today during that time, you can hardly go into the woods without

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Growing as a GameKeeper: Predator Control and Education

Becoming a GameKeeper is seeing how all the different parts of habitat management come together to make ideal habitat for deer and turkeys. Predator control is one aspect of managing wildlife that’s often overlooked. Besides foxes, coyotes, coons and possums, the Smiths also trap beavers.

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Trapping Beavers, Coyotes and Bobcats

My partners and I have some landowners we were trapping for who were having problems with beavers flooding much of their hunting lands. When they asked us to trap beavers, we agreed and bought some Conibear traps. We learned that trapping beavers was a lot of hard work. You have to break the dam, which takes about three hours, set the trap and catch the beaver. But then those beavers left will return and have

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Hunting and Trapping Predators as a Family

My purposes for trapping are two-fold. I use trapping and predator hunting to improve our hunting lands for wildlife and to spend quality time with my children. Our children aren’t just spectators in our trapping, they’re also participants. All three of them can set dog-proof raccoon traps and cage traps. There’s nothing more fun for us and them than running our traplines. On those trapping excursions, we spend quality time with our children, and we’re

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A Record Year for Predator Hunting and a Raccoon Recipe

Two years ago, in 2016, my hunting partners and I had our best year of predator hunting and took 15 coyotes, 25-30 gray foxes, five red foxes, 18 bobcats and at least two to three dozen possums and the same number of raccoons. I’m often asked what I do with the raccoons and possums after we skin them. I’m not going to eat a possum, but I did get a recipe from an older man

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Understanding Patterns and Calling for Predator Hunting

I once caught five bobcats out of the same trap placed in the same location. The following year, I caught four bobcats in that same trap. So, I learned that you can pattern predators much like you pattern deer. Year after year, predators will return to some of the same places where you’ve caught them previously. Predators are much like cockroaches and wild hogs – you can beat their numbers back, but you’ll never entirely

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Fewer Predators, More Deer and Turkeys

To have more wildlife on your property, especially deer and turkeys, you must manage predators. Mossy Oak GameKeepers ProStaffer Michael C. Johnson of Plainfield, Georgia, started trapping and harvesting predators about nine years ago. Johnson has been a Mossy Oak ProStaffer for three years. Michael Johnson | Mossy Oak ProStaff I started hunting and trapping coyotes, foxes, raccoons and possums, because they were keeping turkey and deer numbers down on the properties my family and

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Nighttime, Wild Hogs and Thermal Optics

I stopped and dropped to one knee, caught my breath and got the REAP-IR onto the hog. He was still heading for the road, unaware of my presence. I used my right knee for a brace, and slid the rifle’s safety to “FIRE.” The hog got near the road, disappeared for a second into a low spot, and then was on the road itself, nose down, sniffing.

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Mossy Oak and QDMA Proudly Feature America’s No. 1 Pattern

Since Mossy Oak introduced Break-Up Country in 2015, it has become the no. 1 pattern of choice for deer hunters across North America.

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