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How To Get Rid of Dog Odors and Pests

Bill Gibson is the Kennel Master for Mossy Oak GameKeeper Kennels. In these videos, he provides tips and advice for dog odors and general hygiene to help keep your dog clean and healthy.

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Deer Antler Terminology in a Nutshell

One of the ways to become more familiar with deer hunting is to learn the ins and outs of antler terminology.

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How to Rig for Summertime Smallmouths with Brad Whitehead

The real secret to having the best bait you can have, is not only keeping the shad alive, but keeping them lively.

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Brad Whitehead on Catching Summertime Smallmouth Bass

Brad Whitehead of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, guides for smallmouths and other fish. One of the best big smallmouth bass waters is the Tennessee River, especially the southern half that runs through north Alabama, west Mississippi and south Tennessee.

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Gerald Swindle’s Lessons from Tournament Fishing

Gerald Swindle has learned a lot in his years of bass fishing. He offers up advice concerning live wells, fishing smart and getting ready.

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Rabbit Hunting 101: 6 Tips to Get Started

By studying rabbits’ defenses, finding their hiding places, and being patient, you’ll bag some cottontails on your next hunting trip.

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How To Get the Bass in the Boat

A big bass means money to me, so I don’t hesitate to stick my hand in a bass’s mouth, even knowing there are three sets of treble hooks in there that may stick me.

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Tips for Buying a Used Tractor with Tractor Mike

For America’s landowners, few things make them beam with pride, or cause them more headaches, than their tractors.

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Fishing Rainy Days and Using Light Lines

Preceding or after the rain, you’ll have cloudy, overcast skies, and rain often will cause the bass to come up from those deep places where they’ve been holding and possibly suspend.

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Everything You Need to Know About Hunting Javelina

Javelinas are tough, pig-like mammals that offer a lot of challenge in spotting them, stalking them, and bagging them.

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Identifying and Catching the Bass You’ve Found with Equipment

One problem you’ll have when trying to locate bass is knowing the difference between crappie and bass when they are holding on to a structure.

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Finding Summertime Bass Before You Fish with Gerald Swindle

The real key to finding and catching bass in the hot summer months is having good electronics.

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How To Enjoy Practicing With A Bow During the Summer

Spending time shooting a bow throughout the entire summer will result in a better hunter. By practicing, you become more familiar with your equipment, how you shoot, and more confident in being able to hit your target once the string is released.

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How Crappie Fishing Has Changed

We’ve learned that you can catch bigger crappie in open water than on structure, especially if the water is stained.

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Tactics for Crappie Fishing

Side scanning will allow you to see crappie or shad in an area and also will show you if the fish are holding on trees or stumps.

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3 States to Bow Hunt Velvet Bucks

By Heath Wood For bowhunters who dream of tagging a velvet-racked buck, early-season hunts provide a unique opportunity. As a young teenager, I often bought hunting videos for entertainment and to fuel my anticipation for the upcoming season. Often, the first hunt in the videos would be an early-season hunt featuring a velvet whitetail buck. These hunts took place before the antler velvet had entirely shed, presenting a rare chance to arrow a mature buck

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Bachelor Group Behavior: How to ID the Buck You'll Hunt This Fall

Heath Wood For whitetail hunters, July is more than just the heart of summer; it's a necessary time to observe buck behavior that can pay off come fall. As velvet antlers grow and patterns become clear, bachelor groups form the social core of a buck’s world. However, those who use game cameras for summer scouting know all too well that these groups don’t stay together forever. I used to get frustrated seeing trail camera photos

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Seeing Stripes: Targeting Striped Bass

Bart K. Davis When it comes to East Coast sport fishing, few fish inspire as much passion and pursuit as the striped bass. These sleek, silver torpedoes called stripers haunt coastal waters from the Carolinas to Maine, offering anglers a perfect blend of challenge and reward. Whether you're fishing from a beach or boat, in the surf or offshore, striped bass are a worthy adversary—provided you know how to find and fool them. Striped bass

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Big Bucks Avoid People in Summer Too: Low-Impact Scouting Tips

Heath Wood The summer months present a prime opportunity for scouting whitetails. Bucks are in velvet, rapidly developing their antlers, and often follow consistent feeding routines. However, many hunters make the mistake of getting too close too early. Just because it’s not hunting season doesn’t mean pressure isn’t important. Mature bucks are already accustomed to human presence, and one wrong move in July or August can cause a big deer to leave long before opening

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Panfish Crawfish Bread Bowls

George Fiorille Catching panfish is a lot of fun. They are one of the best fish to start kids or inexperienced anglers on because they are plentiful and relatively easy to catch. By having lots of action starting off fishing, it gives the angler a greater chance of liking the sport and staying with it. Panfish are not only easy to catch but they are great to eat if prepared properly. One of the most

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Summer Pier Fishing Tips

Phillip Gentry Regardless of whether you favor freshwater or salt, many beach going anglers head to the local public pier to do some fishing while on vacation. Summer time is in full swing across the country and is the most popular season for people to head to the coast on vacation. Like a lot of people, vacation time means time to do some fishing. Whether you are a veteran of saltwater or prefer less sodium

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Deer Diet: What Bucks Are Eating in July and Why It Matters

Heath Wood As summer reaches its peak, whitetail bucks are quickly developing in both antlers and body. Nutrition is crucial during this time, and knowing what deer are eating in July isn’t just interesting; it’s a vital part of the puzzle for serious hunters trying to find and pattern mature bucks before the season starts. While driving across eastern Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee on our way to a family vacation, I probably didn't keep my

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Smoked Pulled Wild Boar BBQ Sandwiches with Carolina Gold Sauce

If you're looking for a new way to cook Wild Boar, this recipe is for you! Need Wild Boar? Check out Mossy Oak Gamekeeper Butchery for all of your wild game meat needs. Step 1: The Wild Boar Shoulder (Smoked and Pulled) Ingredients: 1 bone-in wild boar shoulder (5–7 lbs) 2 tbsp yellow mustard (binder) 1/4 cup brown sugar 2 tbsp kosher salt 2 tbsp black pepper 2 tbsp smoked paprika 1 tbsp garlic powder

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Top 7 Non-Food Plot Plantings for Deer

Paul Annear Whitetail food plots get a lot of love in the land management space. Deer hunters everywhere spent countless hours planning their next food plot rotation. Grinding away on a humid summer day just to plant and create a whitetail haven where deer feed and can be hunted is rewarding and fun. But there are more permanent food sources you could be missing out on. A lot of whitetail management fads come and go.

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How to Maintain Your Summer Clover

Paul Annear It’s hard to beat the attraction of a lush field of well maintained clover. In most of the U.S. clover is attractive right out of the ground and hardy blends like Non-Typical Clover stay green deep into November, even in the upper Midwest. Clovers are the most popular food plot planting for a reason. Deer love clover, and its easy to establish without large equipment. To keep from weeds taking over your clover

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Fly Fishing for Bream

Phillip Gentry When most people think of fly fishing, the image that comes to mind is the silhouette of a wader clad angler plying the bubbling waters of some cold mountain stream. Others may envision an iridescent Caribbean sand flat with an angler on the deck of a sleek flats boat trying to temp a shadow drifting through the saltwater. As many fly-casting fans have discovered, just about any type of fish species that can

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How to Catch Red Snapper While Fishing

Bart K. Davis One of the most sought-after gamefish from the Carolinas to the Gulf, red snapper are experiencing a resurgence like few other species. Thanks to careful management and tighter harvest limits over the past two decades, populations have bounced back strong—and with that recovery has come a new golden age of snapper fishing. They truly are the American snapper. With their fiery red flanks and powerful strikes, red snapper are everything anglers want

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