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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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What to Do When You Get Lost While Hunting

One of the fears of adults with the desire to hunt is getting lost in the woods. So, in the Adult Mentored Hunt Program, one of the first subjects taught is what to do if you become lost.

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2020 Holiday Gift Guide: Outdoors Apparel for Men, Youth, Women

Start shopping for the outdoors enthusiast in your life with apparel from Mossy Oak. We've got great gift ideas for men, youth and women. Outfit your obsession this holiday season.

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Hunting East Texas “Cat” Squirrels: Lessons in Humility

My Texas friends call them “cat squirrels,” and like cats, these small gray squirrels were fast and slippery, sliding up and around branches, leaping from bough to bough, and always heading away from me.

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Getting Your Kids Excited for Their First Hunting Trip

When you take your kids hunting for the first time, the focus shifts from the prey to make it a positive and safe environment for your children.

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Hear Better, Hunt Better

Most outdoor mentors and their students now understand that a few minutes of casual skeet shooting without hearing protection is a serious – potentially life altering – mistake.

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Free Printable Shooting Targets

Successful hunting starts with preparation and that includes sighting in your rifle or shotgun using anatomically correct targets. Get your free printable shooting targets here!

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Learn About Shotgun Shells with Marty Fischer

Most dove hunters believe that the more shells they shoot, the more doves they’ll take. So, they’ll have 4-5 boxes of shells and blast away.

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Don’t Move or You’ll Lose When Hunting Doves

If you’re familiar with hunting turkeys, you know that if you move while a turkey is walking toward you, he’ll take off, and you won’t be able to take him. Doves react exactly the same.

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Dove Hunting Tips - How to Hunt Doves

Most of the shots that a hunter takes in a dove field are at doves coming straight at him or her at 12:00, veering off to the left or the right at 6:00 or constantly flying back and forth. Therefore, every shot that a hunter takes is at some kind of angle.

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Don’t Shoot a Shotgun that Doesn’t Fit You with Marty Fischer

A properly fitted gun will shoot right where you’re looking, without your having to aim it. To test how the gun is fitting you, we do what’s called an impact pattern.

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The Most Common Mistakes that Dove Hunters Make with Marty Fischer

If you mount the gun properly, your eye functions as a rear sight, and the bead functions as your front sight. A bad gun mount most often results in a miss.

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3 Recommendations When Mentoring a New Hunter

Introducing new hunters (young or old) to the sport is probably one of the most exciting and important things veteran hunters can do.

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8 Tips for More Doves Per Box of Shells

You will find there is an incredible amount of air around a dove when you start shooting at them! So, I will give you 8 tips on how I kill more birds than 5 per box of shells.

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President Trump Signs The Great American Outdoors Act into Law

On Tuesday, August 4, 2020, President Donald J. Trump signed into law H.R. 1957, The Great American Outdoors Act, hailed by many in the outdoors community as the most important conservation legislation in a generation.

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Rabbit Hunting 101: 6 Tips to Get Started

By studying rabbits’ defenses, finding their hiding places, and being patient, you’ll bag some cottontails on your next hunting trip.

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