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10 Tips to Make Your Elk Hunt More Successful

Karl Badger of Salt Lake City, Utah, has guided elk hunters for 20 years and is a Mossy Oak Regional ProStaff Manager. He gives his 10 tips for making your elk hunt more successful.

Big Game, Bow, Firearm

Smoked Salmon Spread

Smoked salmon or trout is delicious all on its own, but here’s something that will take it to the next level. A great appetizer or treat to take along to hunting or fishing camp, this snack keeps well and is easy to make ahead. Substitute smoked lake trout, char, trout or cod, if that’s your catch of the day.

Fishing, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Soil Testing for Productive Food Plots

Knowing the characteristics of the soil not only helps determine the most productive species to plant but gives land managers the information needed to properly amend the soil ensuring a successful, nutritious food plot. Since soil acidity levels are so important in establishing and creating a successful food plot, Mossy Oak BioLogic has created an easy-to-use way to test the pH and nutrient status of your soil. By following a few simple steps you can

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

Fenson Canned Fish

This is a good recipe for any white fleshed fish or salmon. You don’t need to remove the scales from lake trout or salmon, but you do for whitefish, walleye, northern pike and other freshwater fish. When processed in a pressure canner, fish can last up to three years on your pantry shelf.

Fishing, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Morris & Smith Win Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Series National Championship

As title sponsor of the Bassmaster High School Series and official pattern of B.A.S.S., Mossy Oak Fishing is thrilled to congratulate Grayson Morris and Tucker Smith on winning the 2018 Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Series National Championship.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, News

Bow Hunting Antelope with D.J. Randolph

Mossy Oak ProStaff Regional Director D.J. Randolph of Velva, North Dakota, has been hunting antelope with a bow for 15 years. Success in taking an antelope with a bow is most often knowing what those antelope want to do, where they want to go, and what time of day they want to get there - sometimes before the antelope knows what they’re doing.

Big Game, How-To, Bow

Mossy Oak Fishing's Jordan Lee to speak at the NPAA 2019 Annual Conference

The NPAA Annual Conference gives anglers the opportunity to learn about the business side of the sport and network with pro anglers like Lee and others, who have been successful on and off the water.

Fishing, News

Whitetail Deer Fawn: First Part of Life

The first stage of life for whitetail deer can be anything but safe and easy being vulnerable to predators and other natural elements. They rely on their mother in many ways, but she has her own tricks for keeping her fawn safe. Learn about the whitetail gestation period, how does keep their fawns safe, a fawn’s eating habits, and other facts about the first few months of a fawns life.

Deer, Conservation, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

GameKeepers’ Guns: Sighting in your Rifle with a Shooting Bench

Sighting in your rifle is arguably the most important aspect of your hunt. If you are going to put in all of the time, money, and effort into having the right opportunity for a harvest, then why skip out on sighting in your rifle? Learn the best way to sight in your rifle and how using a bench rest can help you accomplish the perfectly sighted in rifle.

Big Game, Deer, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Firearm

Small-Batch Venison Sausage

When you think about making venison sausage, it’s easy to envision a garage full of hunting buddies, hundreds of pounds of meat, and tables loaded with sausage-making hardware. Getting a big group together to process all your deer is fun and efficient, but don’t rule out small-batch homemade venison sausage. Whether you have a pile of unused sausage scraps lying around from last season, or you need to use up some neglected steaks or roasts

Deer, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Mossy Oak Joins Scentless Hunter and Scentless Huntress to Offer New Hair and Body Care Products

Mossy Oak, in conjunction with Southern Racks Outdoors, is launching a new, innovative line of scentless hair and body care products.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Gear, News

Growing Big Deer: Nutrition’s Effect on Antler and Body Size

Research has shown time and time again the importance of nutrition for white-tailed deer to fulfill their genetic potential for body growth and antler size. Maintaining appropriate deer densities, habitat management, and supplemental food plantings are all management activities routinely practiced by gamekeepers to improve diet quality for deer. However, what if we told you that not only is a deer a product of what it eats, but also what its mother and grandmother ate!?

Deer, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic

Improving Seed Germination

Seed germination and seedling survival are obviously vital to a successful planting. One reason for planting failure we see is seedling death due to lack of moisture after the seed has germinated.

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

Jordan Lee’s Five Best Bass Baits for Summer and Early Fall

Jordan Lee tells us his favorite summertime bass baits.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, Gear

Equipment for Antelope Hunting

Longtime, avid hunter for all species, Parrey Cremeans, provides his list of equipment for a successful and comfortable antelope hunt. Creameans is from Redding, California, he first started hunting antelope in 1985 and is a member of Mossy Oak’s ProStaff.

Big Game, Mossy Oak Mountain Country, Mossy Oak Break-Up Eclipse, Gear, Bow

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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

Week-by-Week Buck Movement in October

We break down the month into week by week observations on October deer movement and how to plan for and strategize for early season deer hunting.

Deer, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Testing the New Leupold VX-6HD Gen 2

Our friend and “gun nut” Bill Gabbard put the new version of the Leupold top-of-the-line VS 6HD hunting scope to the test on a day at the range.

Big Game, Deer, Predator, Gear

Your Guide To Flathead Catfishing

To the casual angler, a catfish is a catfish is a catfish, but to catfish anglers, the different species of catfish are as different as night and day.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Fishing

Harvesting Does Early - Quality Management

Doe harvest is one of the most vital aspects of managing your herd correctly and many managers believe this should be done as early as possible in the season.

Deer, Conservation, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Bow, Firearm

My Best Friend Timbo

Neill and Timbo hunted 13 seasons together. Timbo is one of Mossy Oak's greatest dogs; he remains a legend in the Haas family and the dad, granddad, and great-granddad to puppies even today at the Mossy Oak Gamekeeper Kennels. Here Neill writes his parting thoughts on his best friend, Timbo.

Waterfowl, Dogs, Mossy Oak Companions, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Gamekeeper Kennels

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