Toxey Haas was born January 21 1960 in
Toxey Haas was born January 21, 1960, in West Point, Mississippi. He began hunting at the age of six and wanted to be invisible to the game when he was hunting. He said, "I always dreamed of being invisible to the game while in the woods. " After graduating at Mississippi State University, Toxey followed a path that became a career in camouflage. At twenty-five, he decided to duplicate dirt, bark, sticks, and leaves onto fabric. He called this first pattern "Bottomland. "
After 20 years, Mossy Oak has become more than just a camouflage company – we’ve grown to embody an outdoor lifestyle. With apparel, nearly 1, 000 licensees, Bio. Logic wild game seed products, Mossy Oak Productions, Mossy Oak Properties and now the online Obsession, our many endeavors have been nothing short of ambitious. That's why we say, "It's not a passion. It's an
He founded Haas Outdoors, one of the countries largest manufacturers of camouflage in 1986 and registered the Mossy Oak trademark. Haas Outdoors licenses five hundred manufacturers to produce patterns. Today the company based in West Point spends 1. 2 million dollars annually on marketing alone. Dirt and bark and leaves are big business among the hunters of the country and for them "Mossy Oak" is a household name. Along with the business, Toxey has a television show called "Hunting the Country" and publishes two magazines a year.
Toxey is still hunting , but finds time for his wife Diane, daughter Sara Frances, and twins Daniel and Neill
He says, "My mind belongs the my work, my heart belongs to my family, but my soul belongs to the woods. "
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