Mastering Late Season Deer Hunting: Expert Strategies for Cold Weather

This video details a successful deer hunt in Vermont, showcasing strategic planning and execution. The hunter emphasizes arriving early, identifying key terrain features like saddles, and patiently waiting for the right opportunity. The use of a Mossberg bolt-action rifle with Hawke optics and Hornady ammunition is highlighted throughout the successful stalk, tracking, and recovery process.

This guide details advanced late-season duck hunting techniques, emphasizing the critical importance of proper blind concealment using natural stubble and understanding atypical bird behavior in extreme cold. The expert instruction highlights that mallards often feed only once daily in the afternoon, making morning scouting potentially deceptive. It also showcases the Mossberg 940 Pro Waterfowl shotgun in action.

This guide details three key behavioral changes in late-season ducks that hunters can leverage for success. It emphasizes midday scouting between 12 PM and 3 PM when birds are most active, hunting during temporary thaws that create new feeding opportunities, and employing edge hunting techniques near roosting areas rather than directly disturbing them. The advice is presented with the authority of Mossberg, a long-standing firearms manufacturer.

This guide details a late-season goose hunting strategy in Southern Alberta, focusing on adapting to cold conditions. Experts Brad Fenson and Jon Draper from American Hunter explain how to leverage open water and field feeding patterns to locate active geese. The technique emphasizes using harvested fields and layout blinds for successful ambushes, even in freezing temperatures.

This content debunks the common assumption that deer become nocturnal. Dr. Strickland from the MSU Deer Lab explains how consistent hunting pressure on food plots conditions deer to avoid these areas during daylight. Research using GPS collars confirms deer are still active during the day, simply adapting their behavior to avoid hunters.

Jasper Charles, host of 'Start Up' on the Mossberg channel, demonstrates how deer rubs can be valuable indicators of deer activity times. By understanding the relationship between bedding areas, food sources, and travel corridors, hunters can interpret rubs to predict when deer are most likely to be moving through a specific location. This technique is presented as a key scouting tip for effective deer hunting.

The Mossberg 590M is a new-for-2018 magazine-fed pump-action shotgun chambered in 12 Gauge. It features double-stack magazines available in 5, 10, 15, and 20-round capacities, offering significant tactical advantages for quick ammunition type switching. The design incorporates milled receiver lugs and dual extractors for enhanced reliability, and its ergonomics include an ambidextrous safety and a unique helical magazine release.

The Mossberg 990 AfterShock is a compact, semi-automatic 12 Gauge shotgun designed for tactical applications and home defense. Key features include an enlarged loading port, oversized safety, M-LOK attachment points, and the specialized AfterShock grip. It offers a 5+1 capacity and demonstrates rapid cycling during live fire.

Learn a crucial duck hunting decoy mistake: ducks spooking when all decoys face the same direction. Jason Cruise demonstrates how real ducks orient uniformly before fleeing. To avoid this, vary decoy keel weight placement, causing them to face different directions and mimic a relaxed flock.

This video provides a detailed 3D animation of the Mossberg 500/590 pump-action shotgun's internal mechanics. It breaks down the complete firing cycle, from loading shells into the magazine tube to extraction and cocking. Key components like the bolt lock, elevator, hammer, and sear are explained in relation to their function during each stage of operation.