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A Fisherman’s Christmas Gift Guide: Eight Gifts Your Friend Will Love

When picking out the perfect gift for your angler friend, try some hooks, worms, or bottom bouncers.

Fishing, Gear, Mossy Oak Fishing

Why Paul Butski Wears Hearing Protection and Hunts from a Ladder Stand

Having good hearing can be critical to taking that buck of a lifetime. You need to be able to hear two bucks fighting, a buck grunting, a deer walking through the leaves, deer running and another hunter approaching your stand.

Deer, Firearm

A Hunter’s Christmas Gift Guide: Seven Gifts Your Friend Doesn’t Have Yet

A hunter can never have too many outdoor gear and accessories. But if your hunter already has a full kit, here are a few ideas for gifts they might not already have yet.

Gear

What’s in Your Backpack Is Vitally Important

One of the critical ingredients to having a comfortable and successful hunt is the equipment you carry in your day pack when you hunt during gun or bow season.

Deer, Gear, Bow

Elevate Your Game As A Coyote Hunter

There are 3 tactics that if coyote hunters take advantage of, they can increase their batting average, elevating their game as a good predator hunter.

Predator, How-To

Increase Success When Public Land Deer Hunting by Going Deeper

New technology and hunting aids, like onX, are enabling more and more hunters to go deeper in the woods in the dark, navigate to their tree stands or ground blinds, and be prepared to take a deer when the other hunters start coming in the woods.

Deer

Paul Butski Learns in Bow Season How to Take Deer in Gun Season

During bow season, what I learn about wind direction in the stands I hunt from will be useful information once gun season arrives.

Deer, Bow, Firearm

Paul Butski Bow Hunts to Spend More Time in the Woods

I love bowhunting and gun hunting for deer, but bowhunting allows me to spend more time in the woods than I will if I only gun hunt.

Deer, Bow, Firearm

Building a Mental Database as a Professional Fisherman

The only way you can build that database in your mind is to have spent a lot of time on the water in all types of weather and water conditions.

Fishing, How-To, Mossy Oak Fishing

Taking the Next Step to Becoming a Professional Angler

I’ve learned a lot through my high-school bass-fishing career and realize that chasing sponsors and beating down their doors is not the way to get sponsors.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Fishing

How Did Tucker Smith Get Sponsors for Bass Fishing?

One thing that most high-school tournament bass anglers want to know is how to get sponsorships on the high-school level, and how to you carry those sponsorships with you to the college level and on into a professional bass-fishing career.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Fishing

Too Cold for Your Usual Camp Spot? 7 Warmer Options to Travel To

If you dread leaving the warm confines of your sleeping bag, consider these 7 warmer options to camp this winter.

Camping

How Smith and Marbut Won the 2020 Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Championship

What type of equipment were you and your partner Hayden Marbut using to win the 2020 Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Championship?

Fishing, News, Mossy Oak Fishing

Winter Wonder Wear: 9 Camping Essentials to Keep Warm

To enjoy your winter camping properly, you must dress and pack for conditions. Taking the time to go through a checklist of your gear before departure pays off.

Gear, How-To

Three Bassmaster High School Championships at Kentucky Lake

At the 2020 Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Championship, Tucker Smith won his third National Championship with two different partners from Briarwood High School in Birmingham Alabama.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Fishing

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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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