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10 Household Items that Can Double as Survival Gear

There may come a time when you find yourself in a sticky situation with only the items in your home at your disposal. You may already have the following common household items in your home and not be aware of their potential use as survival gear in an emergency situation.

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Teaming Up for Turkeys

In addition to making for a more enjoyable turkey hunt, having a partner along can sometimes mean the difference between success and failure.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, How-To, Firearm

Beekeeping Beyond the Backyard: Positive Ways Beekeeping Affects Land Management

If you are looking to start a hive, there are many online resources to help you find honey bees to populate your hives, other beekeeping equipment and education. Here, we’ll help you get started.

Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Hunting Survival: 5 Tips for Encountering a Wild Animal

All hunters know and appreciate the beauty, prowess, and potential deadliness of wild animals. As an experienced hunter, knowing what to do if you come across a wild animal on your hunting trip should be an essential part of your knowledge-arsenal for maintaining your safety in the wild.

Big Game, Predator, How-To

Baked "Fried" Wild Turkey

I was inspired to create this appetizer while attending and evening wedding of a lifelong friend. It seemed everyone had tried chicken fingers with honey mustard sauce, and I thought this would work great with wild turkey.

Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

Advantages of Fishing Light Line and Braided Line

I try to fish line as heavy as I possibly can use, because I believe that the heavier line allows me to land more bass than light line does.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua

Mossy Oak and American Buffalo Knife and Tool Company Announce Mossy Oak Patterned Knives

Mossy Oak and American Buffalo Knife and Tool Company have teamed up to bring hunters a trio of new knives with Mossy Oak patterned handles. All three knives are immediately available.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Gear, News

Foraging the Forest Floor: Asparagus, Chickweed and Stinging Nettle

Early spring brings a newness to the woods. Turkeys are beginning to gobble and the fish are biting. But along with the thawing ground and warmer weather, we have some nutritious foods that we can forage from the forest floor.

How-To, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Bad Birds: When Turkeys Don’t Cooperate

And after more than 40 years of turkey hunting I still find birds that beat me. I cuss them out at first, but when reason returns I bless them for making me a better turkey hunter.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, How-To, Firearm

How to Trap Turkey Predators In Order to Increase Poult Populations

Ongoing predator control is a useful and often necessary tool for successful wildlife management. A regular relationship with a trapper will help you see a big increase in ground-nesting birds.

Turkey, Predator, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

How Tony Adams Catches Warm Weather Crappie

Tony Adams of Eufaula, Alabama, can produce a three-person limit of crappie on Lake Eufaula in less than 4 hours, and you can too by following his recommendations for crappie fishing on many crappie lakes across the country.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, How-To

Food Plots for Game Bird Success

Two aspects of wildlife management that are growing rapidly are the restoration of native habitat and growing crops with game birds in mind. I am of the opinion that “loss of habitat” may be the number one factor (on a list of many reasons) for the steady decline in quail numbers over the past several decades.

Small Game, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, How-To, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries

Gobbler Groceries: A Professional Hunter’s Guide to Wild Turkey Nutrition

Turkeys aren’t very picky eaters. They can eat a wide array of both plant and animal (insect) food and have adapted to survive on what’s most abundant at any particular time of year. Here we’ll help you build the right nutritional calendar to ensure big turkeys at hunting season.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Tackling Tardy Toms

Birds that aren’t culled out early wise up quickly and their once eager response to our plaintive pleadings soon ranges somewhere between reluctance and indifference. As the days grow longer, the randy toms’ breeding instincts start to wane, making them even harder still to hunt.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, How-To

Murphy and Gunn Partner to Win at the Bassmaster College Series Tournament

Gunn and Murphy won their first tournament they’d ever fished together on the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair. With that win, the two young men bonded and decided to fish together as partners.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua

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How to Call in a Hung Up Turkey

Even the most seasoned hunters encounter the frustration of a 'hung up' gobbler, a bird that remains tantalizingly close yet refuses to approach.

Turkey, How-To

Catching Bass During Shad Spawning Season

Every bass angler in the country looks forward to the annual spawning rituals of their favorite black bass species. It’s shallow water fishing at it’s most challenging and often most rewarding.

Fishing, How-To, Mossy Oak Fishing

Soil Sampling How-to Guide

If we want to grow wildlife crops that grow as well as row crops like corn and soybeans, then habitat managers should pay attention to soil sampling and fertilizing according to lab results.

Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries, BioLogic

Wild Turkey Breast Recipe with Morel Mushrooms

Check out Mossy Oak's wild turkey breast recipe with morel mushrooms. Read our blog and learn how to make a wonderful meal without overcooking the meat!

Turkey, Wild Game Recipes, Firearm

Growing Big Bass Quick

A little bit of effort and care into your pond can result in some big bass in just a few years!

Fishing, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Fishing, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic

Mossy Oak's Fox Haas Kills Turkey at 94 Years Old

Mossy Oak patriarch Mr. Fox Haas killed a wild turkey at 94 years old from a golf cart blind custom built by his grandson. Here's the story.

Turkey, Deer, Waterfowl, News, Video, Mossy Oak Companions, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Wild Turkey Mating Behavior: Courtship, Breeding, and Reproductive Insights

Courtship displays, gobbling behavior, clutch genetics, paternity insights, and more are discussed in this article as advised by Dr. Mike Chamberlain.

Turkey, Conservation

2025's Best Turkey Hunting Gear

Here's a snapshot of some of our favorite items; they're a mix of brand new to the market and classic items that continue to impress us year after year.

Turkey, Gear

Turkey Brine and Smoke Recipe For Lunch Meat

Here’s how to make lunch meat from your wild turkey.

Turkey, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild, Mossy Oak Gamekeeper Butchery

How To Catch Spring Shellcrackers

As far as panfish go, shellcrackers, formally known as redear sunfish and colloquially know as Chinquapins in some parts, often fly under the radar behind crappie and bluegills.

Fishing, How-To, Mossy Oak Fishing

Saving the Gizzard Stones

Looking for a unique way to save the memories of your bird? Start saving the gizzard stones for a colorful way to collect more trophies from your bird each spring.

Turkey, How-To

Crappie Tactics: Insight from Pro Angler Whitey Outlaw

We talk to Whitey Outlaw, a retired professional angler who spent 42 years on the crappie tournament circuit. He’s got as good of advice as you’ll ever hear.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Fishing

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