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Is Rocky Soil Holding Back Your Food Plot Success?

A common problem many guys have to work around in their food plots and wildlife openings is rocks. Having to cultivate soil that is heavily littered with rocks can cause multiple problems when it comes to managing a food plot. Besides it being outright difficult to create a good seed bed in rocky soil, the rocks can be really hard on equipment causing pre-mature wear and break downs.

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Kyle Meyer Crawls to the Texarkana Buck

On this particular day, we’d cut soybeans all day and finally quit at 2:30 am. We returned that morning at 7:30 am to get the combines ready to start cutting more beans. When I arrived at a combine, I looked out in the field and saw Texarkana stand up in the soybeans that hadn’t been cut. We’d named this buck Texarkana, since he looked like a Texas deer with a wide rack and short tines.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Bottomland, How-To, Mossy Oak, Bow

How to Hunt Crop Land Bucks with Kyle Meyer

Kyle Meyer from Milan, Michigan, has been a Mossy Oak pro for the last 5 years. “I became a pro when I was 19, and I'm 24 now,” Meyer says. Like many of us, Meyer went with his dad deer hunting when he was about 4-years old and started hunting on his own when he was 12, the age at which he could hunt with a bow in Michigan. He’d rather hunt with a bow,

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Bottomland, How-To, Mossy Oak, Bow

Bass Pro Shops Redhead Tec-Lite Shirt And Pant Available in Break-Up Country

Bass Pro Shops® has announced the RedHead Tec-Lite shirt and pant is now available in Mossy Oak Break-Up Country. This high-tech duo consists of ultra-lightweight 95% polyester/5% Spandex ripstop construction. The moisture-wicking and fast-drying capabilities provide the ultimate all-day comfort when the temperature rises. This lightweight clothing guarantees to keep you cool on any hunt.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Gear

How Ideas about Women Hunting Have Changed

I remember that in the early days, many men were surprised that I’d go into the woods before daylight. They truly didn’t know what to think when I’d put up my own tree stand and go to my stand by myself. But today when I walk into a hunting camp, and I’ve got my own tree stand and my own hunting equipment, I get much more respect from everyone than I did in the early

Mossy Oak Shadow Grass Blades, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak

How to Set Up a Goose Decoy Spread

Mossy Oak ProStaff Member Cory Dukehart shares tips on how to set-up a goose decoy spread. Cory shares how he uses full body and silhouette decoys and what pattern of a goose spread he likes to use.

Small Game, Turkey, How-To, Video

How to Use a Goose Flag

Mossy Oak ProStaff member Cory Dukehart shares tips on how to flag geese. Cory shares some tips on the best practices to flag geese, why its important and what many hunters do wrong when flagging geese.

Waterfowl, Video

Brenda Valentine Is a Traveling Hunter But Loves Her Home Farm Most

I’ve been on three African safaris, and I’ve gone to Afghanistan, Kurdistan and Russia on behalf of the hunting industry on goodwill tours for our troops. Although I didn’t hunt on these tours, I’ve hunted every province of Canada, I’ve been to Alaska and Mexico, and I’ve hunted in just about state at least a dozen times. I start hunting the first of March each year and don’t stop hunting until the end of May

Mossy Oak

Brenda Valentine Is Rabid about Tree Stand Safety

I was hunting near my home and was using my climbing tree stand to climb a big red oak tree. I was trimming limbs off the tree as I climbed it. I had one of those old-style safety harnesses that went around your chest but didn’t have leg loops. But I failed to attach the harness to the tree, because back then you didn’t attach yourself to the tree, until you were at the height

Mossy Oak

Must-Know Tips for Scent Lures

Out of all possible tactics available to whitetail hunters, the use of scent is one that can show the highest rate of success since deer trust their sense of smell above all else. Scent should often be used as a confidence builder in combination with other stimuli like calling or decoys. As an example, if a buck hears rattling and swings downwind to scent-check the area (as most mature bucks will do), but then smells

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Brenda Valentine Helps Break the Ice for Women Hunters

Thirty years ago I didn’t know any women who were part of the outdoor hunting industry. However, I loved to hunt and had hunted all my life. I’d shot my bow and arrow for many years. But I guess the first time I ever saw other women involved in the outdoors was when I started shooting 3D archery. I began to see more women at the 3D archery tournaments I attended, who were very proficient

Big Game, Mossy Oak

Covert Scouting Camera’s Code Black Available In Break-Up Country

Covert Scouting Camera’s Code Black is now available in new Mossy Oak Break-Up Country. The AT&T network ready Code Black camera texts photos to your cell phone and/or email address. This technology allows you to see what is going on without having to go to the camera and pull the SD card.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News, Mossy Oak

From Subsistence Hunting to the First Lady of Hunting

According to Mossy Oak Pro Brenda Valentine of Puryear, Tennessee, known as the First Lady of Hunting, “I don’t let much grass grow under my feet. If I’m not flying on an airplane, driving somewhere in my truck, using my tractor to turn dirt or bush hog weeds, riding my horses, tending to my garden, spending time with my four grandkids, testing new outdoor equipment, writing a column for ‘Turkey Country Magazine,’ being at a

Big Game, Mossy Oak

Harness Up Before You Go Up

Since my fall, I'm a total believer in having life lines on every tree stand from which I hunt. If I'm going into a new area to hunt, or if I'm hunting with an outfitter or a friend who already has set up tree stands, the first thing I ask is, “What type of stand will I be hunting from - a ladder stand, a box stand, a ground blind, a climbing tree stand and/or

Mossy Oak

RIVERS WEST Introduces Exclusive Break-Up Country® Product at Dunham’s Sports

Waterproof outerwear manufacturer RIVERS WEST and camouflage giant Mossy Oak have partnered up to bring an exclusive jacket and pant to Dunham’s Sports called The Mackinaw. Combining award-winning waterproof protection with the digitally enhanced, life-sized natural elements of Break-Up Country brings a truly unique product to whitetail hunters at the Midwest’s largest retail sporting goods chain.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News, Mossy Oak

Latest Content

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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