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Spring Food Plots Help Whitetails Recover from Stress

After hard winters, whitetail deer might need a little extra help recouping to their full nutritional levels. We’ll help you build the food plots and nutrition calendar your land needs to ensure your deer stay healthy.

Deer, Conservation, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Foraging for Food: A Hunter-Gatherer Guide to Finding Food in the Wild

With the equipment available to the modern hunter-gatherer and the huge amounts of data available online at the tip of your fingertips, foraging for food today is easier than ever before. This handy guide will help get you started on your new foraging lifestyle or hobby and provide useful information about the art of finding food in the wild.

How-To

Redden, Grooms Win Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Central Open

Tyner Redden and Hayes Grooms of Greenbrier, Ark., took home the victory in the 2019 Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Central Open presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors at Norfork Lake.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, News

Casting with the Wind and Other Bad Weather Fishing Tips

To learn to fish in these conditions, always plan to fish when the weather’s so bad you don’t want to go fishing, even on days you don’t have to fish. Most people have the advantage of picking the days they want to go bass fishing. Very rarely will they fish the days with terrible weather, when they don’t have to or want to bass fish.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, How-To

Honor Defense Launches Mossy Oak OVERWATCH Pistols

Honor Defense has introduced an all-new lineup of pistols in Mossy Oak OVERWATCH, the Official Camouflage Pattern of the NRA. The pistols are immediately available at dealers as well as online.

Gear, News, Firearm

Jordan Lee Always Learns When Bass Fishing

I'm on the water bass fishing, I'm learning something I haven’t known the day before. Even on those days when I don’t get a bite or catch a bass, I've learned more information on what not to do on those kinds of days under those types of water conditions.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua

5 Training Tools for Your Hunting Dog

With a substantial time investment on your part and the right dog training tools, you can turn your pup into a well-trained and educated working partner in the field. The following basic training tools are essential pieces of any well-rounded training toolbox to get your hunting dog in top shape for the coming season.

Waterfowl, Gear, Video, Mossy Oak Gamekeeper Kennels

All About Lake Trout

Despite its name, lake trout are not actually true trout but are considered char within the Salmonidae family, with the Arctic char as its closest relative.

Fishing, How-To, Wild Game Recipes, Video, Ingredient Wild

Tactics for Late Season Gobblers

Hunting turkeys late in the season can present numerous difficulties, yet can be very productive. We will discuss my most successful tactics. There are a few variables that need to be identified to help decide your plan of attack. Once you have done so, put your strategy in place and throw your hail Mary.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, How-To

Foul Weather Fowl: Turkey Hunting Tips

Turkeys generally don’t like being in the woods in wet or windy weather, probably because it’s much harder for them to see or hear predators. They like to be in open places like fields and pastures, and where they might spend an hour or two there on a pleasant day, they may well be there all day in a storm.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, How-To

Has Greg Hackney Changed His Style of Fishing for Major League Fishing?

One of the big differences in the MLF Fishing Circuit and the Bassmaster Circuit is that every bass in MLF that’s caught is weighed, released and counted in the total weight of bass caught for that day.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua

Land Management: Heavy Equipment Safety

Proper training to operate heavy equipment doesn’t happen overnight. It’s important to know the ins and outs of your machine before operating it. Hear from the experts on how to keep yourself safe using heavy equipment.

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties

Plotting a Plan: Ways to Ensure Food Plot Success

All facets of whitetail management will turn out best if you plan accordingly. Proper planning will prevent time loss, save you money and help you to realize your management goals. Here’s how to plan a food plot for success.

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

Catching Bait Can Be as Much Fun as Catching Fish

This past week outdoor writer, John E. Phillips, had the opportunity to take his wife, Denise, and his special-needs son, Hunter, on a shrimping and fishing trip with Captain Mike Wilson from Gulf Shores, Alabama. Wilson is one of those unique people who offers two types of fishing trips – a shrimping trip and an inshore saltwater trip.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Evolution Outdoors Mossy Oak GameKeepers Line Now Available

Now available from Evolution Outdoors is the all-new GameKeepers product line, a collection of soft cases designed to meet the needs of gun owners from all walks of life. The line includes items such as soft rifle and pistol cases and a soft-sided cooler.

Mossy Oak Bottomland, Gear, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Firearm

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The Importance of Native Plants to Deer Diet

Native plants are the primary food source in a deer’s diet. Read on to learn more about what deer like to eat and how native plants are essential to a whitetail’s survival.

Deer, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries

Berbere Spiced Elk Legs with Chermoula Sauce

This elk leg recipe was originally made for the 2025 Fox Hole Shootout. It's not an easy recipe by any means, but it'll be sure to impress anyone you make it for.

Big Game, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

5 Deer Calls Every Hunter Should Have

Grunt calls are standard equipment for the deer hunter, but there’s also a few other calls that have proven themselves as deadly tools of the trade in the deer woods.

Deer

Tips for Finding Fall Crappie

One sure thing about fall fishing for crappie is that the fish are generally in some type of transition. Moving from one place to another, staging in one area in preparation for cooler temperatures.

Fishing, How-To

Understanding Wind & Thermals When Hunting

A deer’s sense of smell is its most important defense. By understanding wind and thermals, you can use this to your advantage. Learn more from Mossy Oak.

Deer, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

From the Archive: Deer Calling Tips from the Pros

Originally published in the 1994 Mossy Oak Bowhunting Magazine, this article talks to professionals like Will Primos on calling in deer.

Deer

Coffee Crusted Venison Steaks

It’s all in the rub! The Cowboy Coffee Rub makes these venison steaks even more mouth watering. If you like sauce for your steaks, give the Bourbon Coffee BBQ sauce a try, too!

Deer, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

The Power of the Scrape – Bowhunting October’s Pre-Rut Hotspots

“Not all scrapes are created equal. When I mentioned that you must learn to interpret scrapes, I meant that hunters should know how to use them effectively by understanding the differences.”

Deer, How-To

Bass Fishing During The Fall Turnover Period

There are several strategies that can help anglers not only deal with the natural phenomenon of pond turnover, but actually catch some decent fish in the process.

Fishing, How-To, Mossy Oak Fishing

Public Land Ambush – October Bowhunting Tactics for Pressured Bucks

“October can be a tough stretch for bowhunters, especially on public land. The easy early-season patterns fade, the rut is still a ways off, and mounting hunting pressure makes deer wary and unpredictable.”

Deer, Bow

Targeting the 3 Different Squirrel Species

Here we’re talking through the different tactics and strategies you might employ when chasing the gray squirrel vs the fox squirrel or the red squirrel.

Small Game, How-To

From the Archives: Bob Dixon and Steve Burnett on the Art of Mix and Matching Camo

By Terry Madewell, originally published in the 1994 edition of Mossy Oak Bowhunting Magazine As big whitetail bucks are inclined to do, this one had done the unexpected. I'd studied this buck's pattern for a couple of weeks, being extremely careful not to leave any scent in the wrong places. I'd selected a stand site where the dense underbrush funneled into a 40-yard-wide strip. I was sure this was where he would walk and I

Turkey, Big Game, Deer, Waterfowl, Predator, How-To

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