Small Game

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If one of your biggest passions involves hunting small game, you’re in the right place. Our small game hunting videos and articles will provide you with key insights and information on how and when to hunt your small-sized quarry, and more effectively put you hot on the trail of sought-after squirrels, rabbits, pheasants & doves.

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When Dove Shooting Becomes Dove Hunting

With the proper equipment and knowledge about doves, outdoorsmen can enjoy one of the best wing-shooting sports. Opening day of dove season often can result in a frustrating frenzy of fast shooting, plenty of birds and much spent powder. But after opening day, the wild and timid surviving doves know how to dodge hunters. Dove shooting then becomes dove hunting, an altogether different sport.

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Practice and Learn Why You’re Missing Doves

If you're serious about your dove shooting, go to a trap, a skeet or a sporting-clay range. Have a qualified instructor watch you shoot. In 5 to 10 minutes, he'll be able to see the mistakes you're making and help you drastically increase your ability to shoot doves more proficiently.

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The Difference in Shooting Doves and Hunting Doves

Start with shooting skeet and get proper instruction to become a better dove hunter.

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Dove Hunting Strategies for Success

Finding a good place to dove hunt can be a challenge. To ensure you add these delectable edibles to your next dinner menu, take matters into your own hands by including the following dove hunting tactics into your strategy.

Small Game, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic

Planting Waterfowl Seed Mix

BioLogics Guide’s Choice is possibly the most advanced waterfowl planting ever. This proven waterfowl seed mix includes Japanese Millet and Sorghum. With a little know-how you can be on your way to a more successful duck hunting experience.

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Planting for game birds: A little goes a long way

Early June is a great time of year to think about getting some food planted for turkeys, quail, or other birds you plan to hunt. WhistleBack is a warm season blend of sorghum, three varieties of millets, Egyptian wheat, and sunflowers. This mix is designed to produce massive amounts of seed and at the same time offer cover for many species of upland birds. WhistleBack contains varieties that all grow and mature at different heights

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Remembering J.J. Kent, Mossy Oak ProStaffer

J.J. Kent has been a member of the Mossy Oak ProStaff since 2011. We are saddened that his life ended much too soon. The week of his passing, we posted a blog series about him and his many hunting endeavors. We will always appreciate J.J.'s passion and dedication to the outdoors. We know he affected many lives for the outdoors and truly loved hunting and guiding hunters.

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Kent Outdoors Homes Plenty of Deer and Turkeys on Their Properties

Besides waterfowl hunting, we also offer deer hunting at Kent Outdoors. Many guests want to know how we can have duck hunters who like to shoot at the same time deer hunters are at Kent Outdoors who don’t want to hear anything but deer snort or small hooves in the leaves. We have several different guides working with us.

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Geese, Blinds and Plenty of Waterfowling Fun at Texas’ Kent Outdoors

I’m often asked about goose hunting, and I believe that goose hunting is more weather-dependent than duck hunting. Sometimes our geese will show up right after Thanksgiving or possibly after Christmas. We do get a few snow geese that come through north Texas. However, generally, they usually come down the flyway further west or further east of us.

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J. J. Kent Tires of Deer Hunting and Learns to Hunt Texas Ducks

Years and years ago I was sitting in a deer stand with my dad, and I decided I was tired of deer hunting. I’d taken enough deer to know that I could. I decided to look for a different type of hunting. A couple of days later, some friends of mine invited me to go duck hunting. When I watched my friends blow those duck calls and saw those ducks respond to the calling, change

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Year-Round Hunting with J. J. Kent

J. J. Kent has been a Mossy Oak Pro for 6 years and has what many believe to be a hunter’s dream job. “We can hunt for something every day of the year,” Kent explains. “Here at Kent Outdoors, which I believe to be one of the best hunting destinations in north Texas and southern Oklahoma, we hunt waterfowl, deer, turkeys, hogs, doves and sometimes even crows

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British Labrador Training Designations

We have three levels of training – started, finished and hunted dogs. A started dog is trained to basic obedience commands – sit, stay, heel and back. A finished dog will get all the training that a started dog is taught, plus, he’ll be able to respond to hand signals and make blind retrieves. A hunted dog will be able to do everything that the started and the finished dogs can do, but a hunted

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When the Hunter and the Dog Become One

We have a waiting list of people who want one of the pups we breed here at Mossy Oak’s GameKeeper Kennels. I'm often asked, “How many pups can Mossy Oak produce in a year?” We’re not about production. We don’t breed our females until they’re 2-3 years old. So, we've got a lot of young females that will come into our breeding program in the next several years. Right now, we only have four females

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The Demand for British Labs for Hunting

Watching a well-trained hunting dog perform the task he's been trained to do is like poetry in motion. The dog’s breeding and training go on display as the dog does the work he’s meant to do. Perhaps “work” is not the proper term. Maybe watching a dog enjoy the sport he’s trained for is a better way to describe the pleasure that a dog achieves when he does the tasks that are born and trained

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Why Raise and Work with British Labrador Retrievers for Hunting Dogs

Since Mossy Oak had experienced and knew British Labs and their fine qualities, and Bill Gibson had experience training British Labs, we felt they were a good breed of dogs with which to start our kennels. British Labs are hunting dogs, they have great dispositions, and they're bred and trained to be hunters’ companions.

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