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Basic Venison Chili

Any time of the year is a good time for chili, especially venison chili. As with any recipe, you can always adjust the amounts of ingredients to your personal tastes.

Deer, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

A Record Year for Predator Hunting and a Raccoon Recipe

Two years ago, in 2016, my hunting partners and I had our best year of predator hunting and took 15 coyotes, 25-30 gray foxes, five red foxes, 18 bobcats and at least two to three dozen possums and the same number of raccoons. I’m often asked what I do with the raccoons and possums after we skin them. I’m not going to eat a possum, but I did get a recipe from an older man

Small Game, Predator, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Understanding Patterns and Calling for Predator Hunting

I once caught five bobcats out of the same trap placed in the same location. The following year, I caught four bobcats in that same trap. So, I learned that you can pattern predators much like you pattern deer. Year after year, predators will return to some of the same places where you’ve caught them previously. Predators are much like cockroaches and wild hogs – you can beat their numbers back, but you’ll never entirely

Deer, Turkey, Predator, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Species Profile: Mallards

This species profile on the mallard duck highlights migration information, how to manage for ducks, reproduction facts and interesting tidbits about mallards.

Waterfowl, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Fewer Predators, More Deer and Turkeys

To have more wildlife on your property, especially deer and turkeys, you must manage predators. Mossy Oak GameKeepers ProStaffer Michael C. Johnson of Plainfield, Georgia, started trapping and harvesting predators about nine years ago. Johnson has been a Mossy Oak ProStaffer for three years. Michael Johnson | Mossy Oak ProStaff I started hunting and trapping coyotes, foxes, raccoons and possums, because they were keeping turkey and deer numbers down on the properties my family and

Deer, Turkey, Predator, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Tick Key’s Tick Removal Device is Safe and Effective

Now Features Mossy Oak Patterns Tick Key Products, LLC is partnering with Mossy Oak to offer its 99.9% effective tick removal device in five different Mossy Oak patterns. The Original Tick Key™ is now available in Mossy Oak's Break-Up Country® and four popular Country Roots colors (Snow, Mint, Pink & Hunter Orange). Pricing starts at $9.99 and various product models are available on Amazon and at authorized retailers, which can be found at www.tickkey.com .

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News, Mossy Oak Gamekeeper Kennels

A Fishing Pattern and an Opportunity for Ott DeFoe

Thirty-two-year-old Ott DeFoe of Blaine, Tennessee, fished his first bass tournament when he was nine, and he’s continued to fish bass tournaments for 23 years. He first started fishing on the Bassmaster Elite Series in 2011 and won the Rookie Of the Year award. He won the All-Star Tournament, and in 2016, he won the Elite Series tournament on the Mississippi River. He’s won several Bassmaster Open tournaments, and he's qualified for seven Bassmaster Classics

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, Mossy Oak

Venison Sloppy Joes

Ditch the Manwich and cheap hamburger buns. You and your hunting buddies (or house guests) will appreciate the extra TLC that goes into this hearty, home-cooked sloppy venison sandwich. It’s still easy and inexpensive to prepare, but it’s a major step up from the Sloppy Joes you ate as a kid. My latest batch came from a tasty Montana mule deer.

Deer, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

GameKeepers Can’t Overlook the Importance of Water for Deer

As GameKeepers, we often emphasize planting and habitat management, but we can’t forget the importance of having plenty of water on the property we’re managing for deer and turkeys. Although wildlife gets much of its water from the foods they eat, in drought conditions, the deer can become very stressed or may have to travel long distances for water.

Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Establish a Deer Management Plan as a Team

Managing deer hunting pressure on your land is key to the number of bucks you can hold on your property, no matter how large or how small the land is. If we identify a buck we’d like to take in a certain part of our property, we don’t hunt that buck except when the wind, the weather and the hunting conditions provide us with the best opportunity to see and take that buck.

Deer, Land Management

Venison Steak and Eggs

This simple recipe is quick and delicious. Sometimes food is most enjoyable when you leave it be. All you need is venison steak and eggs. The important step in this venison recipe is making sure you don’t overcook the meat. Serve with toast or grilled vegetables and you have a high protein, great tasting meal.

Deer, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Mossy Oak Properties of the Heartland Adds Kansas office

Mossy Oak Properties of the Heartland is pleased to announce the opening of Mossy Oak Properties of the Heartland-Ross Land Sales, LLC in Council Grove, Kansas. Matt Ross, a lifelong resident of Kansas, will own and operate the Flint Hills based brokerage. He brings a passion for the outdoors blended with a business background to his new venture. “To say that I am excited for this opportunity would be a monumental understatement,” said Ross. “Being

Land Management, News, Mossy Oak Properties

Mossy Oak Congratulates Chicago Team for Win at Bassmaster High School Series on Toledo Bend

As title sponsor of the Bassmaster High School Series and official pattern of B.A.S.S., Mossy Oak is thrilled to congratulate Scott Springer and Trust Say who took home the top prize at the recent event on Toledo Bend.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, News, Mossy Oak

Make the Most of Deer Management with Hunting Rules

Regardless of how much habitat you provide and food you plant to improve the wildlife on your property, without a reasonable set of rules around access to the land, management and harvesting, you won’t have the success you’ve hoped to get. All of us who hunt the land believe that what you put into the land is what you’ll get out of it.

Deer, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Bow, Firearm

You Can Grow Bigger Deer Through Management

My family and I can attest that managing your property can absolutely improve your hunting. When I first started hunting these two, 150-acre farms, I might see one to three bucks per year, all year, on both properties. The bucks we spotted back then didn’t have brow tines for some reason. The farm we leased wasn’t producing any bucks bigger than a basket rack. Today, the bucks we harvest on that leased farm score between

Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

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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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