Your Obsession

Feed Your Obsession

This is your destination for all things outdoors, and the captivating content that keeps you educated, inspired and informed. Whether you’re preparing for your next successful season by picking up new tips and techniques, or just browsing our articles and videos for your viewing entertainment, there’s always something worthwhile here for you to take in and enjoy.

Filter

Brenda Valentine Is a Traveling Hunter But Loves Her Home Farm Most

I’ve been on three African safaris, and I’ve gone to Afghanistan, Kurdistan and Russia on behalf of the hunting industry on goodwill tours for our troops. Although I didn’t hunt on these tours, I’ve hunted every province of Canada, I’ve been to Alaska and Mexico, and I’ve hunted in just about state at least a dozen times. I start hunting the first of March each year and don’t stop hunting until the end of May

Mossy Oak

Brenda Valentine Is Rabid about Tree Stand Safety

I was hunting near my home and was using my climbing tree stand to climb a big red oak tree. I was trimming limbs off the tree as I climbed it. I had one of those old-style safety harnesses that went around your chest but didn’t have leg loops. But I failed to attach the harness to the tree, because back then you didn’t attach yourself to the tree, until you were at the height

Mossy Oak

Must-Know Tips for Scent Lures

Out of all possible tactics available to whitetail hunters, the use of scent is one that can show the highest rate of success since deer trust their sense of smell above all else. Scent should often be used as a confidence builder in combination with other stimuli like calling or decoys. As an example, if a buck hears rattling and swings downwind to scent-check the area (as most mature bucks will do), but then smells

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Brenda Valentine Helps Break the Ice for Women Hunters

Thirty years ago I didn’t know any women who were part of the outdoor hunting industry. However, I loved to hunt and had hunted all my life. I’d shot my bow and arrow for many years. But I guess the first time I ever saw other women involved in the outdoors was when I started shooting 3D archery. I began to see more women at the 3D archery tournaments I attended, who were very proficient

Big Game, Mossy Oak

Covert Scouting Camera’s Code Black Available In Break-Up Country

Covert Scouting Camera’s Code Black is now available in new Mossy Oak Break-Up Country. The AT&T network ready Code Black camera texts photos to your cell phone and/or email address. This technology allows you to see what is going on without having to go to the camera and pull the SD card.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News, Mossy Oak

From Subsistence Hunting to the First Lady of Hunting

According to Mossy Oak Pro Brenda Valentine of Puryear, Tennessee, known as the First Lady of Hunting, “I don’t let much grass grow under my feet. If I’m not flying on an airplane, driving somewhere in my truck, using my tractor to turn dirt or bush hog weeds, riding my horses, tending to my garden, spending time with my four grandkids, testing new outdoor equipment, writing a column for ‘Turkey Country Magazine,’ being at a

Big Game, Mossy Oak

Harness Up Before You Go Up

Since my fall, I'm a total believer in having life lines on every tree stand from which I hunt. If I'm going into a new area to hunt, or if I'm hunting with an outfitter or a friend who already has set up tree stands, the first thing I ask is, “What type of stand will I be hunting from - a ladder stand, a box stand, a ground blind, a climbing tree stand and/or

Mossy Oak

RIVERS WEST Introduces Exclusive Break-Up Country® Product at Dunham’s Sports

Waterproof outerwear manufacturer RIVERS WEST and camouflage giant Mossy Oak have partnered up to bring an exclusive jacket and pant to Dunham’s Sports called The Mackinaw. Combining award-winning waterproof protection with the digitally enhanced, life-sized natural elements of Break-Up Country brings a truly unique product to whitetail hunters at the Midwest’s largest retail sporting goods chain.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News, Mossy Oak

Steward’s Mistake Almost Cost His Life

Once I went up the steps to sit in the stand to determine which limbs needed to be trimmed, I noticed that squirrels had been chewing on the seat of the stand. I never thought that a squirrel might chew on the stand’s straps. When I put my first foot on the stand, everything was fine. But when I transferred my weight and put my second foot on the stand, the strap broke, and I

Mossy Oak, Bow

Add New Straps to Fixed Position Stands

Before the season this year, I went to check a stand, and one of the buckles on the strap I had on my tree stand actually had grown into the tree. Often you can’t loosen the old strap enough to get the strap off the tree and the stand. So, I just add a new tree stand strap to my tree stand. Then, I feel confident about it holding the tree stand. With this technique,

Mossy Oak, Bow

Overrated Wildlife Trees

Planting and managing trees for wildlife food is more of a long term approach compared to food plots and supplemental feeds. With plots and feed you can easily change or adjust at a moments or seasonal notice. Careful and thorough consideration needs to be made prior to loading your property up with trees. Following are three species of tree choices that I either don’t recommend, or recommend limiting to fit a specific niche.

Conservation, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Blair Goins Knew He’d Messed Up

Most novice tree stand hunters fall either when they're climbing up or coming down the tree, however, most experienced tree stand hunters often fall due to malfunctions with their tree stands or not checking their stands just before they hunt. I know several experienced tree stand hunters who’ve fallen because the straps around the tree that have held their fixed position stands have broken. Or, when they’ve gotten into a tree stand someone else has

BioLogic, Mossy Oak

AspectSolar Partners with Mossy Oak for a New Line of Portable Solar Products

AspectSolar, a leading manufacturer of solar panel technology and portable power solutions, has partnered with Mossy Oak to offer innovative portable power solutions designed to fit the specific needs of outdoor enthusiasts. AspectSolar products feature best-in-class solar panel technology and a proprietary Advanced Battery Management System (BMS) that optimizes battery performance. All of this is housed in products that are up to 40-60% lighter than the competition and engineered to outperform in every category.

News, Mossy Oak

Harness Up, Before You Go Up to Hunt Deer

This is the most-important article you'll read this hunting season that can save your life, keep you from losing 1 week to 6 months of work, save you thousands of dollars and prevent pain and suffering for many years. The longer you’ve hunted from a tree stand, the more likely that you’ll fall. We all think of tree stand accidents happening during hunting season, but this week we’ll look at three people who work with

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak, Bow

Bowtech’s The Boss Available In Break-Up Country

Bowtech Archery, the industry leader in archery innovation, has announced the Boss, now available in Mossy Oak® Break-Up Country®. Gone are the days of limitations for long draw archers thanks to the revolutionary new PowerShift Technology.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Gear, Mossy Oak, Bow

Latest Content

Crispy Cheesy Fish Coating

It's hard to beat fried fish. There are different ingredients that can be used to bread fish, and this coating for fried fish includes cheese! It's a unique combination of ingredients for breading, but I think you'll find it delicious.

Fishing, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Hunting Turkeys in Wide Open Country

There are ways to improve your chances of throwing an open country bird over your shoulder, though. Hard lessons learned have upped my success on these tough birds.

Turkey

Best Practices for Placing Fish Structure

We talk the benefits of fish structure, where to place them, and what sort of materials are best to use for structure.

Fishing, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Fishing, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic

How to Fish a Stick Bait from Top to Bottom

Thanks to the popularity of anglers fishing with live sonar, other electronics, and the overall popularity of hard baits, stick baits are probably one of the two most popular baits with bass fishermen today.

Fishing

The 3 Deadliest Calls for Modern Turkey Hunters

There are plenty of calls on the shelf for turkey hunters these days, but there are three sounds that’ll get a turkey killed like no other when educated birds know all the basic yelps.

Turkey

New Sub Gauge Shotguns for 2026

Today turkey hunters have an abundance of choices for the sub gauge shotgun that delivers results in nearly every type of action and budget.

Turkey, Small Game, Waterfowl

Which Turkey Subspecies is the Hardest to Hunt?

This writer went around to about 20 different respected turkey hunters at NWTF to crowdsource an opinion on what the hardest subspecies of turkey is. Their answers are fun and there’s a general consensus on one type.

Turkey

Crispy Curry Wild Turkey Burgers

The spices and flavors kick up this wild turkey burger to a unique notch.

Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Creative Ways To Attract Predators To Your Traps

Here are three creative ways to attract predators to traps.

Predator, How-To

Species Profile: Eastern Wild Turkey

Eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) are the most abundant and widespread of the four races commonly occurring in the U.S.

Turkey

Is the 20-Gauge the Perfect Turkey Gun?

Read on for a look at why the 20-gauge shotgun has grown to be a new favorite among turkey hunters across the country each spring.

Turkey, Gear, Firearm

Forest Stand Improvement

Forest Stand Improvement (FSI) is a term and technique that may be considered by some as ambiguous, and by others as under-utilized. Let’s set the record straight on what it’s all about, why we should consider adopting this practice, and a notion of how to go about doing it.

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

Explore All Posts