Best Survival and Camping Foods?!

Whether we’re talking about an end of the world type of survival situation, or a simple weekend getaway on a backwoods camping trip, food is always a top priority. Food is so high of a priority in fact that people often find themselves packing several large...
How to Keep Ants out of Trail Cameras

How to Keep Ants out of Trail Cameras

How to Keep Ants out of Trail Cameras – If you’re like us and run a lot of different types of trail cameras every year, you’ve likely either ran into an ant problem already, or will in the future. In this tip video you’ll learn how to keep ants...

How to start a fire in an emergency!

Starting a fire has became almost second nature for the majority of us. Whether it be starting the grill, bonfires, or any number of other reasons to start a fire, generally speaking we typically use a lighter or match with some sort of lighter fluid to start our...

Big Buck Down! – Bowhunting Minnesota

On this hunt, Mission Outdoors team member Amanda Baron smokes a mature whitetail with her bow, while Jason Kushlan captures it all on film. A lot of work went into this hunt. From foodplot preparation, to planting a scrape tree, but in the end, it was all worth it....

Minnesota Youth Turkey Hunt!

On this hunt, MissionOutdoors team member David Enstad is running the camera while his Stepson Caleb is behind the Mossberg trying for his 1st bird of the year in Southeast Minnesota. After a rough start to the morning and much cooler weather than normal, things...
How to Skin a Coyote for the Fur Market

How to Skin a Coyote for the Fur Market

In this video we’ll walk you through the process of how to skin a coyote in preparation to sell on the fur market. With the fur market on the low end, it’s important to make sure your coyotes and other fur animals are skinned to NAFA (North American Fur...

Mink Trapping Made Easy!

Mink Trapping Made Easy! If you’re looking for a surefire way to successfully target and trap more mink, this is the set for you. Very simple to place on any type of terrain, whether it’s on dry land or on ice.  httpss://youtu.be/2fmqxxAOe3c Subscribe to...
One VERY Happy Hunter!

One VERY Happy Hunter!

Last night I hit the road running to meet up with a friend who owns one of the properties I get too hunt with my family, and our mission was to help him look for his buck of a lifetime. With only one very blurry trail camera pic too go on, and having never been seen...
Front Row for a Fawn killed by a Coyote

Front Row for a Fawn killed by a Coyote

httpss://youtu.be/HeFKesVY0Jw This time of year we’re pretty much like the majority of the other hunters out there. Hanging and checking trail cameras, scouting for new spots, and just enjoying the sights and sounds of nature. The other evening however I was...
Minnesota deer numbers have recovered

Minnesota deer numbers have recovered

Did the Minnesota deer numbers rebound and recover? According to Adam Murkowski, who oversees deer hunting for the Department of Natural Resources they have. Murkowski claims the deer numbers across Minnesota has recovered, and starting this next Fall, hunters may...
Scopes Allowed for MN Muzzeloader Season!

Scopes Allowed for MN Muzzeloader Season!

httpss://youtu.be/C7aPA6OkG9c     Gov. Mark Dayton signed several bills into law late Tuesday afternoon, including too allow the use of scopes on muzzleloaders here in Minnesota during the muzzleloader season. Other laws passed include an increase in license...
DIY Bear Attractant: MissionOutdoors.Net

DIY Bear Attractant: MissionOutdoors.Net

With bear season right around the corner, many people start looking at different baits, lures and attractants trying to pick the winning combo. While you can find commercial grade stuff fairly regularly in retail stores or online, below is my recipe that’s...
An Action Packed Spring!

An Action Packed Spring!

I cannot believe how fast Winter has came and went. Not complaining one bit I swear! It seemed like almost yesterday when Caleb harvested his very first deer ever, only to be followed up a few short weeks later by me filling a tag on a nice MN buck with my...
A season we’ll never forget

A season we’ll never forget

This story begins midsummer when I found out that I gained access to some private land down in South Central Minnesota.  Being this was super rare for me since I almost always hunt public land, I jumped at the chance since this year I wasn’t going to be the only...
Mid-Day Whitetails

Mid-Day Whitetails

This hunt took place on South Central Minnesota on October 14th, 2015. I hung this set only one week prior to this hunt along with a trail camera. Little did I know the batteries were about dead when I hung the camera, and only found out when I hit the stand yesterday...
An Action Packed Spring!

Outdoor Videography Shot Checklist

Outdoor Videography Shot Checklist Interested in filming your hunts? Below is the general list of shots that many videographers follow to one degree or another. They are meant as a guide, but can be tailored to fit your needs.  One of the most important things is to...
An Action Packed Spring!

MissionOutdoors.Net: A new Journey begins

MissionOutdoors.Net:  A new Journey begins. By David Enstad In many ways this season will be a lot like any other season for us. September will roll around and we’ll find ourselves perched high in a tree on some large chunk of public land, or doing spot and stalk...
Minnesota’s Deer Numbers and Wolves?!

Minnesota’s Deer Numbers and Wolves?!

Well, the Minnesota DNR just announced the new deer hunting regulations today, and with that comes a variety of changes you’ll want to make sure you pay special attention too. Many places that were managed or intensive harvest areas last year are changed into...
Minnesota’s Deer Numbers and Wolves?!

DIY Minerals – More Bang for your Buck!

  DIY Minerals – More Bang for your Buck! David Enstad It’s no surprise that the use of minerals for increasing health of the deer population is on the rise. With that however comes the increase of price you’ll pay at the store for those big...

Moultrie M-880i Trail Camera Review

Moultrie M-880i Trail Camera Review David Enstad Quick facts: Trigger Speed: 0.80 sec Recovery time: 5 sec Detection range: 40 feet Flash Range: 45 feet Dimensions: 5” x 4.5” x 3” No Flash/No Glow Batteries: 8 x AA batteries Likes: Pretty solid nighttime video...

Do you film your hunts? Do you want to?

I’ll get straight to the point by saying we’re not a big named business, so getting paid is not even going to happen anytime soon. We’ve been diehard hunters our whole lives and just have a blast doing what we do, and thought we’d like to take a chance and start...

Introducing kids to the trap line.

Trapping is a tradition that has been around for generations. It has managed to keep going even through all of the anti-trapping propaganda, and even the changing of our youth’s habits and interests. Face it; today’s kids are all about videos games and other tech...
An Action Packed Spring!

Who is MissionOutdoors.net?

    I’ve been asked a lot lately as to who, or what exactly MissionOutdoors.net is and what we’re about, so I figured I’d get to answering them right here. MissionOutdoors.net was originally OutdoorTrader.net, but we got hacked and lost all...

Our Fishing Adventure?!?!

Like most other outdoor families, we spend almost as much time on the water chasing walleyes as we do in a stand chasing bucks. August 30th, 2014 was no different. I pretty much grew up chasing walleyes on Mille lacs Lake in North Central Minnesota, and after being...

WHITETAIL DEER MINERAL MIX RECIPE

 Click on image to see a larger view   WHITETAIL DEER MINERAL MIX RECIPE  Ingredients: Makes 200 lbs depending on the bag sized you buy. 1 part Di-calcium phosphate, this is a dairy feed additive bought at feed stores.  Comes in 50lb Bags, and you’ll need one...

Mission Outdoors: S1:E4 Madison’s First Hunt

One of the good things about the Minnesota turkey season is how they run the youth seasons. Unlike us adults where we only have 1 week and one zone to get it done, the youth hunters get to hunt literally from the very first day of the very first season, clear up until...

Dave’s 2015 MN Turkey Hunt

With a career move I found myself limited on the number of days in which I’d actually be able to hunt during the Minnesota season. I knew going into this hunt that if I really wanted to get it done, I’d have to hunt my tail off to try to get it done in...

Southern WI (Round 2)

This past weeks hunt took place back down in Southern WI where this time it was our good friend Kelly who was up to bat. By the end of the first evening, we learned that this was going to a very different hunt than just one week prior. The birds would gobble up a...

Caleb’s First Turkey Hunt

Last year Caleb and myself were invited down to Southern WI to hunt with our good friend Kelly Tollefson, and even though I “choked” as Caleb likes to put it, this year we were invited back but it was Caleb who would be behind the gun instead of me, and unlike myself,...

Welcome to MissionOutdoors.NET

Hello everyone, I just wanted to take a minute to welcome you all to our website. We at MissionOutdoors.NET are outdoor addicts like most of you, and our videos will consist mostly of turkey, deer and bear hunts with our family and friends. We really hope you enjoy...