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How to Mount a Rifle Scope

Visit our blog and learn how to mount a rifle scope. Avoid outsourcing your optics mounting by doing it yourself with the right hardware and understanding!

Gear, How-To, Firearm

Smoked Deer Heart Recipe

This is my favorite heart recipe. Over the past 11 years I have devoted myself to making wild game meats taste incredible.

Deer, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Hunting The Coyote Rut

When using sounds that focus on breeding behavior or occasionally adding the extra effort of using coyote scents, hunters can experience some of the best hunting that the winter offers by taking advantage of the coyote rut.

Predator, How-To

Waterfowl Species Profile: Snow Goose

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there are three populations of lesser snow geese based on their breeding ranges.

Waterfowl

An Easy Guide to Rifle Scope Magnification

Confused by the algebra experts use to explain your scope’s magnification capabilities? Mossy Oak speaks magnification in plain English.

Gear, Firearm

Identifying White Oak Acorns vs Red Oak Acorns

Are you identifying acorns for a better deer season strategy this year? Mossy Oak wants to help you plan for the big acorn drop.

Deer, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries

Late Season Tactics to Punch Your Deer Tags

The late season will typically find deer becoming patternable once again, allowing you the chance to scout, plan, and execute on the deer you’ve been looking for all season.

Deer, How-To

Why Mineral Rights Issues Can Be a Deal Buster

Also known as a mineral estate, mineral rights are just what their name implies: The right of the owner to utilize minerals found below the surface of property.

Conservation

3 Late Season Coyote Hunting Strategies: Location, Calling, Decoys

Winter coyotes are earned since they have already been through a gauntlet of hunting pressure. After the young-of-the-year coyotes have hit the fur shed, it is time to tweak your coyote setups for the remaining fur veterans.

Predator, How-To, Firearm

How to Stay Warm in a Tent: Cold Camping Masterclass

Can you stay warm in a tent if the weather is extreme? These tips from Mossy Oak can prepare you for the extreme sport of winter camping.

Camping, How-To

Missing a Monster Canadian Whitetail and What Happened Next

This Saskatchewan whitetail hunt helped Mary realize why sharing the highs and lows is important to the sport of hunting.

Deer, Video

Lessons Learned Hunting Afield

There are many things that come together to form a good hunter, and I hope that one day I can continue to pass on many of the lessons I learned in the woods with my dad.

Deer, Turkey, Bow

Wildlife’s Winter Survival Guide

It depends upon whether we’re talking about mammals, birds or reptiles, but different species have unique ways of surviving this icy, cold, snow-covered period. Whether it’s migration, hibernation, brumation, or torpor, animals of all kinds have adapted ways of enduring winter.

Big Game, Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Waterfowl, Fishing, Predator, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

The Naming of the Waterfowl Species

Did you ever wonder how some waterfowl species got their names? It is fairly easy to see how the black duck, redhead, pintail and green-winged teal got their common names. For others it is not so obvious, and sometimes it is quite interesting.

Waterfowl

Duck Hunting Literature: History of the Grand Prairie

The following is an excerpt from the book “The Grand Prairie: A History of Duck Hunting’s Hallowed Ground” detailing the early days of green timber duck hunting in Arkansas’s famed Stuttgart region.

Waterfowl, Shadow Grass Habitat

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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

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

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

Week-by-Week Buck Movement in October

We break down the month into week by week observations on October deer movement and how to plan for and strategize for early season deer hunting.

Deer, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Testing the New Leupold VX-6HD Gen 2

Our friend and “gun nut” Bill Gabbard put the new version of the Leupold top-of-the-line VS 6HD hunting scope to the test on a day at the range.

Big Game, Deer, Predator, Gear

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