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12 Things You Need To Hold Mature Bucks On Your Property Besides Food Plots By Gerald Almy

by Gary Howey | Jun 26, 2019 | THE GAMEKEEPERS OF MOSSY OAK

Food plots are for many of us the most fun and dramatically rewarding part of being a gamekeeper. But as you delve deeper into habitat and wildlife management, it becomes clear that there are plenty of other improvements that need to be made to the habitat if your...

What is Antler Velvet?

by Gary Howey | Jun 26, 2019 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field, THE GAMEKEEPERS OF MOSSY OAK

Habitat-Techniques BY Austin Delano on Jun. 18, 2019 Antlers…they have fascinated man since the beginning. Going back thousands of years one can see mans’ love for “animals with antlers” etched and painted on the walls of caves. Antlers were “a trophy of a...

Nebraska Commission approves deer, antelope and elk hunting recommendations

by Gary Howey | May 5, 2019 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field

LINCOLN, Neb. – The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission approved recommendations for 2019 deer, antelope and elk hunting seasons at its meeting April 24 at Ponca State Park. The most significant approved changes to Commission orders for big game include: — Addition of...

“Of the Outdoors” Late Winter Scouting By Gary Howey

by Gary Howey | Jan 10, 2019 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field

Scouting may be the most important part of hunting and one thing that some hunters have neglected doing. It can mean the difference between being successful; getting that trophy deer or big gobbler, you have been after or going home with an...

The Outdoors A place to Get it Together

by Gary Howey | Sep 16, 2018 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field

I have always been somewhat of a sports enthusiast. Competing in about every sport a person can imagine. In grade school, it was track, baseball, and football, in high school track and football and once I moved to Nebraska it was softball. I no longer compete in...