Whitetail Deer | Gary Howey's Outdoors

Food Plots Doing it Right by Gary Howey, Josh Anderson & Mitchell Sudbeck

by Gary Howey | Jan 10, 2018 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field

With the weather as cold as it is, you may not be thinking about food plots and minerals licks. When in fact, this is the perfect time to think about them as this is the time of the year when it may be too cold to go ice...

Now you see it Now you don’t By Gary Howey

by Gary Howey | Nov 25, 2017 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field

As legal shooting time begun to fade, the Mule deer buck came out about three hundred yards down in the draw. My camera operator who zoomed in on the deer earlier indicated it was a good buck, pulling my 25:06 up to my shoulder; I put the cross-hairs near the top of...

Scent Trail Techniques: Fooling Mature Bucks

by Gary Howey | Nov 22, 2017 | THE GAMEKEEPERS OF MOSSY OAK

When leaving a scent trail in a straight line you’ve only got a fifty-fifty chance the buck will follow the trail in your direction. Half of the time they follow it in the wrong direction, even with a real doe’s trail. They’re searching for the “goodies” at the end of...

Improving Perennials for Early Season Whitetail

by Gary Howey | Sep 20, 2017 | THE GAMEKEEPERS OF MOSSY OAK

A lush and healthy perennial plot can be the perfect ambush site on early-season whitetails. If you have some good perennial fields such as clover, chicory, or alfalfa, here are some things you can do to get them sweetened up for that perfect 20-yard shot....

Don’t Be Afraid to Try New things My First Deer Hunt By Gary Howey

by Gary Howey | Sep 20, 2017 | Gary’s Thoughts from the Field

Deer hunting has always been something that enthralled me; one of those adventures I had heard and read about, but never had the pleasure of getting out and doing. The main reason I did not know much about deer hunting was that my Dad did not have a...