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What’s in the Future for ProStaffer and Champion Wrestler Brent Metcalf?

I'm totally obsessed with wrestling and hunting. When my wrestling career is over, I’d love to become a professional hunter. But right now, I have to keep my hunting enthusiasm in check and focus on my passion for wrestling. When I'm hunting, I want to find the biggest buck on the property; I want to take the smartest turkey in the woods; and I want to get in close enough to take the biggest bull

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Walls Offers 10X Apparel in Break-Up® Country™

Featuring the all-new Break-Up Country pattern, Walls 10X® line of hunting and outdoor apparel offers rainwear that is perfect for your outdoor adventures.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News

Two National Championships for ProStaffer Brent Metcalf’s College Wrestling Career

Growing up I was really fortunate to be blessed with some great coaches. When I was in elementary school, the wrestling club I joined was one of the best wrestling clubs in the state. Roy Hall was my high school coach. The style he taught us to wrestle was known as the Iowa style, developed by Tom and Terry Brands, both World and Olympic champions. So in high school, part of my training was watching

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Wrestling Was a Family Affair for Brent Metcalf

I started wrestling, and about 2 weeks later, my brother started wrestling. Chase and I both fell in love with wrestling. We started dropping out of the other sports and concentrating just on wrestling. By the time I was 10-years old, Chase and I were traveling all over the country competing in wrestling matches. Wrestling became a huge part of our family.

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Mossy Oak Signs Multi-Year Sponsorship With IBO

Mossy Oak has recently agreed to a multi-year sponsorship with the International Bowhunting Organization, the country's oldest sanctioning body of 3D archery events and host of the largest national 3D unknown-distance competition series.

News, Mossy Oak, Bow

2 Enemies of Warm Season Food Plots

If you are a serious whitetail manager, you know that warm season food plots full of high protein forage are important for maintaining a healthy herd and growing bigger bucks. Warm season plantings like lablab, soybeans and peas are great additions to a deer’s diet, but they don’t come without some work. The two most common reasons for spring/summer food plot failure are over-browsing and weed competition.

Conservation, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Hunting and My Connection with Mossy Oak and Olympic Wresting with Brent Metcalf

I've hunted all my life. If I wasn’t wrestling and spending so much time as a wrestler, I would want to spend my time doing nothing but hunting. My favorite hunting is turkey hunting, with white-tailed deer hunting following close behind as well as a growing interest in elk hunting. If I couldn’t wrestle tomorrow, I’d be out hunting the next day.

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A 1031 is a provision in the IRS tax code that allows landowners to defer paying taxes on the exchange of property. When selling a property with the intent to purchase another, the capital gains remain untouched during the exchange, which is particularly beneficial for land investors.

Conservation, Mossy Oak, Mossy Oak Properties

Brent Metcalf: Freestyle Wrestler and Outdoorsman

Twenty-eight-year-old Brent Metcalf from Iowa City, Iowa, is ranked number one in the nation in freestyle wrestling, the type that takes place in the Olympic Games and in the World Games. Metcalf is eyeing a third national title with hopes of competing on the USA Olympic Team in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Metcalf, who’s passionate about wrestling, hunting and the outdoors, is a member of the Mossy Oak Pro Staff and has been

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The Time’s Not Too Late to Plant to Increase the Wildlife You Hunt and Manage

areas of the South had torrential rains this past spring that prevented land-management planners from planting soybeans, peas and Lablab in green fields for fall food plots. However, if you start right now, you’re not too late to get those crops planted - if your area still can get 90 days’ worth of warm weather. Summer food plots often help with packing on weight and growing antlers for bucks, especially for early season hunting.

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

Use Predator Control to Remove Competition for the Wildlife Your Land Produces

Early summer is a good time to rid your property of predators that detrimentally can impact many of your wildlife species. If you feel like predators are impacting the wildlife population on your land, talk with your county agent or wildlife department about getting nuisance permits for harvesting predators during the summer months.

Predator, Land Management, How-To

BRP Sets New Performance Norms With 2016 Can-Ams

If you’re heading out solo or with a friend, we have the perfect vehicles that will work with you to bring back your quarry. All-new Mossy Oak Break-Up Country pattern combined with factory-installed accessories gives you the ultimate hunting package. In addition to our new hunting edition models, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country Camo is available in the Commander and Outlander family lineups.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News, Mossy Oak

What about the Birds?

Wildlife management and green field plantings don’t have to be a one trick pony. In many places, green fields and wildlife plantings primarily are established to provide food for deer and harvest opportunities for hunters. However, your green fields can be more than just deer magnets. You also can use a green-field management program to provide food and habitat for wild birds, including turkeys, other wild birds and game birds.

Small Game, Conservation, How-To

3 Tips for Growing the Best Clover Plot

If you want perennial clover plots that last for years and will be very attractive to whitetails, turkey and other critter, they need to be cared for properly. Here are the three main tasks you can do for the best perennial plots possible.

Conservation, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Cut the Grass and Use M.E.E.N. Green Fertilizer

About all outdoorsmen have things they’d rather do on weekends than mow the grass on green fields planted for wildlife to increase the amount of food to make deer and turkeys easier to find and take. But in most sections of the country, except for the far north, most wildlife managers already have started mowing their green fields before June.

Big Game, Deer, Turkey, Land Management, How-To, BioLogic

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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

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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