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Trekking Through the Snow: 6 Safety Tips for Winter Hiking Trips

Winter hiking offers gorgeous scenery but poses numerous challenges. Outfit yourself with the right gear and let people know where you’re going for a safe, enjoyable trek.

How-To

Spring Walleyes and Learning to Use Depth Finders

Whether I’m guiding, tournament fishing or fishing for fun, I know you’ll not get to be as good a walleye angler as you want to be until you’ve tested your skills on numbers of different walleye waters.

Fishing, How-To, Mossy Oak Fishing

Decking Out Your Camping RV During the Off-Season

Building an RV deck is a simple project you can accomplish during the off-season. Follow our tips to create a stylish extension of your living space.

How-To

Limits on Walleyes and What’s Considered a Trophy

The number of walleyes you can catch and keep not only depends on the state where you’re fishing, but also the body of water you’re fishing in a particular state.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Fishing

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.

Small Game, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak Obsession, Firearm

Mossy Oak Properties Announces 2020 3rd Quarter Pinnacle Club

We are excited to recognize some of the nations’ top land specialists through our Pinnacle Club. Our land sales professionals are an integral part of our network, and their consistent success speaks volumes as to the caliber of people and professionals they are. We congratulate them on this prestigious honor.

News, Mossy Oak Properties

Catching a Bunch of Winter Walleyes with Johnnie Candle

I’ve had some of my best days of catching lots of walleyes and big ones during November and December in years past. Depending on the body of water I’m fishing, catching 20-40 walleyes in a day isn’t uncommon.

Fishing, How-To, Mossy Oak Fishing

Food or Cover When Managing Smaller Properties?

Managers of small properties (80 acres or less) will most often be lacking the space necessary to house many whitetails.

Deer, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic

Equipment and Fishing for Early Winter Walleyes

If you’re searching for a place to go and catch good numbers of walleyes and possibly the biggest walleye you’ve ever caught in November and December, my suggestions include the Missouri River.

Fishing, How-To, Mossy Oak Fishing

Camping with Your Best Friend: 7 Camping Essentials for Dogs

With these seven essentials, camping with your dog can be stress-free and fun.

How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeeper Kennels

Johnnie Candle on How to Catch Winter Walleyes in November and December

At this time of year, the walleyes are feeding heavily as winter approaches. The female walleyes are starting to produce eggs to get ready for the spring spawn, and they’re hungry.

Fishing, How-To, Mossy Oak Fishing

Organizations Offering Outdoor Programs for People in Minority Groups

More outdoor organizations are becoming aware of not only people with disabilities but also are creating outdoor programs that allow for inclusion of people with disabilities and people from minority groups.

Deer, Bow, Firearm

You Can Fly Fish, Kayak, Hike and Hunt with Adaptive Equipment

More and more national forests are paving hiking trails, so that people with manual wheelchairs can hike with their families.

Big Game, Deer, Fishing

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.

Small Game, Deer, Turkey, How-To

Types of Adaptive Outdoor Equipment for Hunters with Disabilities

I break down adaptive equipment into three categories: equipment originally designed for able-bodied people but that can be used by people with disabilities, equipment specifically designed for people with physical disabilities, and equipment or modifications of equipment people build in their garages and workshops. Let’s look at these categories.

Big Game, Deer, Fishing, Gear

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Ballad of a Turkey Hunter: Bottomland Book Club

From the dedication to the very last page, you will quickly realize that this book is about setting a standard we all should strive to uphold. It's really more of a revitalization of an old-school mindset, and it couldn't come at a better time.

Turkey, Bottomland Book Club

Cooking Deer Steak with Cast Iron

Cooking with cast iron pots and pans has been popular for hundreds of years. The heavy vessels are incredible for providing even and consistent heat. They can be used over any heat source and do just as well on a fire as they do on a camp stove or home range.

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

Best Habitat Projects to Take On After Deer Season

Every off-season presents a time to reflect and take action on last deer season’s challenges and shortcomings. The time for course correction and boosting the potential on your hunting land isn’t in the middle of deer season. The time is now.

Turkey, Big Game, Small Game, Deer, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

What to Learn From and Do with Cast Antlers

Check out our cast antlers article and discover things to make with deer antlers. Learn why shed hunting has become a popular hobby for everyone!

Deer, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Inside the Bubble, The Magical Deadly For Turkey Hunters

A gobbler's "bubble" is that invisible 50 to 100 yard zone where every movement matters, the sound of a gobble seems to vibrate the ground, and every decision that you make, whether it is calling or moving slowly in one direction to make the shot, matters.

Turkey

On Roosting a Bird and How Close is Too Close?

Roosting a turkey is a tried and true strategy. How close it too close, and what are some other things to consider when putting one to bed?

Turkey

Congratulations to Mossy Oak Friends at NWTF Calling Competitions

Mossy Oak sponsored friends and Prostaff placed in all of the calling competitions and had an incredible showing.

Turkey, Video

Hunting Legends: 10 Hunters Who Changed Turkey Hunting

These men—and women—did more than call in gobblers; they called an entire community forward.

Turkey

If you’re anything like us, you have a few dozen pounds of ground venison in your freezer just waiting to be used.

Deer, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild, Mossy Oak Gamekeeper Butchery

Mossy Oak Sponsored Turkey Callers Begin Competitions in Nashville

Good luck to our friends and Prostaff who are competing in the various turkey calling (or owl hooting) competitions at NWTF this weekend.

Turkey

Turkey Hunting Superstitions

If you call yourself a turkey hunter, yet do not find your life choices during the spring to be peculiar, you probably have the most severe form of the peculiarity in which you appear perfectly normal to yourself yet the most peculiar to the outsiders.

Turkey, Firearm

Fighting Duck Depression: 5 Things Waterfowlers Must Do In The Offseason

When waterfowl season ends, you may be left wondering how you ever filled your time before. Here's some ideas on how to keep yourself preoccupied until next duck season.

Waterfowl, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

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