Getting a huge deer is every whitetail hunter’s dream. Josh Honeycutt, the Associate Editor of Realtree, shares his adventure in capturing his velvet true 8-pointer. He talks about how he hunts his deer through observation, scouting, proper camera position, choosing the right spot, and waiting for his prize amidst any weather. He emphasized the importance of studying the deer pattern and explains how their behaviors differ during the day and the nighttime. As he narrates how he hunted his prize on a 50-acre land, Josh reiterates that you do not have to have a lot of land because most deer are loyal to a bedding area. All you need is to familiarize it.
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Early Season Special – Josh Honeycutt – Realtree – Huge Velvet 8-Pointer
It’s an early season successful hunt by Josh Honeycutt, who is the RealTree.com Deer Hunting Editor. Josh, welcome back to the show. I’m excited to hear the story about this magnificent buck you took early season down there in Kentucky.
Thanks for having me on.
Josh, let’s go back. You said you started hunting this deer after you shot your deer in 2017, which is intriguing in itself. Let’s start there and walk us through the hunt for this majestic velvet buck.
The journey for this particular deer started because I killed my velvet deer and filled my 2017 Kentucky tag. Usually what I do, as soon as I fill my tag in a given season, I’ll start scouting for the following season. This particular deer that I ended up hunting and harvesting showed up about ten days after I killed my deer. I immediately transitioned to scouting that deer, learning that deer. I’ve learned that as long as there’s no major food source or habitat changes, a lot of the times most deer will carry a similar pattern from year-to-year. It’s not always the case, but a lot of deer do. If you put the effort in and learn that deer, there’s a good chance you can use the information that you gather on that deer as long as he’s still alive and doing the same thing, which I found that they oftentimes do that. Percentagewise, I don’t know what the percentage is, but I’ve noticed from year-to-year if you get a return deer on camera, a lot of the times they will have similar patterns.
I was blessed with a very good opportunity to shoot a velvet buck here in Kentucky so I immediately started scouting this deer. What I did was I followed the deer via trail camera. I did a little bit of in-the-field scouting during the season but not much. I did a lot of post-season scouting after the last season went out and collected as much information on the deer as I could. Before I even started looking at trail camera images or scouting, the first thing I did was look at the information I had. I looked at all day especially the daylight. I looked at both the nighttime and daytime trail camera images for information. I especially paid attention to the daytime images because that was showing me where this deer was using this property in daylight, which is extremely important.
If you give the deer just enough land to think they have the wind vantage, they are more likely to move in the daylight. Share on XI looked at daytime trail camera images and those that were right around dawn, dusk, maybe those that were just before or after legal shooting light because the deer were still in that general location close to daylight. I took that information and I plotted down the location on an aerial map. I plotted the location of that image, the time, the date and the direction of travel. Something else I paid attention to was the wind direction on those particular days and times. I looked at all of that and I probably had about fifteen or twenty total daylight pictures of this deer from September to January, probably about fifteen if I remember correctly. Most of those were right on the edge of daylight and dark, but a few of those were good, solid daylight images. It still gave me enough information to go on and it painted a picture of where this deer liked to bed, feed and water during the months of September, October, November, December and January. I used that information to give me a start for my game plan of how I would hunt that deer. Luckily, I got him in and didn’t have to worry about the rest of the season. That’s what I looked at first.
Once I had that information, I started looking at the information. My pre-season scouting, the trail camera images that I had of the deer leading up to the season. It was not interesting because I did not have an afternoon pattern on this deer all summer long. From June until right after the beginning of the season, I only have probably one afternoon daylight picture of this deer which is not enough for me personally to hunt him. I did have the deer on the morning pattern and I do hunt mornings but I don’t hunt in my good spots of a morning. It’s a tradition for my family and me to always go out and hunt opening weekend regardless. We always hunt opening morning, but we always hunt on observation stand. We’ll go sit somewhere that’s not as high impact or we’ll go to a spot where we might have a shot at a doe. We won’t hunt any of our big bucks usually. That’s not always the case, but most times we don’t.
This deer I had, leading up to the season, probably throughout the month of August, I had him on a morning pattern. He was hitting one of my stand locations, a particular camera that I had put up. He was hitting that spot if not every day, about every other day in the first 30 or 45 minutes of daylight. I was contemplating hunting him and I was going to hunt that deer every morning during the first part of the season. I checked my cameras probably three or four days, five days, before the season started and he changed his pattern up right before the season, which is not unheard of. That’s pretty common. It was a little earlier than I expected him to change his pattern because typically, around here, the bucks are still in bachelor groups at that time.
They’ll generally carry their summer patterns into at least the first week. Maybe the first ten or twelve days of the season. I was surprised that he changed his pattern up then, but something that’s interesting to note is our soybeans. This is both ag and timber countries. It’s a good healthy mix of habitat. The soybeans started turning just a little bit earlier. We’ve got a heavy mass crop and the acorns started falling. Acorns have been falling not heavy but they started falling before the season even started, which is uncommon. It’s the earliest I’ve ever seen acorns start falling here in Kentucky. It’s been years. I don’t think they’ve fallen that early in my lifetime to my knowledge, which has made it a lot tougher for deer hunters.
Getting back to the story, he changed his pattern up. What I did is I ended up sprinkling out and using a tactic that I personally like to call a trail camera blitz. Basically, what that is I sprinkle out trail cameras around that deer’s general core area. I normally do this sooner, but I didn’t do it on this particular deer because I had him on that morning pattern and he was pretty consistent. I didn’t want to go in there and put more cameras out and potentially spook the deer. Whenever I lost that pattern, I decided to do that even though it was last minute. I sprinkled out trail cameras around the deer’s core area where I thought that deer might be spending most of its time and I used that information once I got into the season.
I didn’t hunt the deer the first three days of the season because I still hadn’t picked the deer’s pattern back up. The first time I went in and hunted this deer was a Tuesday morning, I think it was. I ended up sitting in the spot where I’d been getting him on camera every morning. I had a blind hope and was hoping that he would come back through and do what he’d been doing. He didn’t. I saw a lot of does that morning but I ended up coming back that afternoon and sat in a little bit different spot. I don’t think I’d call it necessarily an observation stand. It was an observation stand because I can see a lot of ground from that stand and I was hoping to pinpoint where that deer would come out that afternoon and hopefully pick his pattern back up. In that particular location, it’s hard for me to scout from afar. I had not been scouting this deer from afar because where it was at is tight. I could see a lot, but there was nowhere that I could get and see these deer without spooking the deer. I never did a lot of scouting from afar during the pre-season and I had to solely rely on my trail cameras.
That Tuesday afternoon, I sat in a particular spot that I have killed deer out of in the past, but it was more so for me an effort to get on the beat on what this deer is doing rather than to kill him. We had a storm roll through and I probably shouldn’t have been in this tree stand because it was thundering and lightning. I was stubborn, young and dumb and I sat through it. There wasn’t any heavy lightning coming down. It was a little bit of thunder and rain. I ended up seeing the deer. He came out right after that storm rolled through and he came out about 200 yards from me.
Don't automatically think that a deer is purely nocturnal because that's probably not the case. Share on XBasically, what it was an old alfalfa field that hadn’t been replanted in quite a few years, probably four or five years, so it was right on the tail end of its lifespan there. There wasn’t a lot of alfalfa left, but there was a lot of clovers. I think they were coming into that field to hit that clover and hit that alfalfa. On to the south, beyond on a different property which is a good ways away, to the south of me on a different property, there was a lot of beans. They were bedding on the property that I was hunting, which isn’t a big property. It’s only about a 50-acre property. They were coming through that clover, staging up even though it’s not a true classic, traditional staging area. They were coming out of that bedding area that they were bedding in, feeding in that small, little alfalfa-clover plot which is about two acres in size, so it’s not small. They were feeding in that before they fed off on down to the south, on to the neighboring properties that had soybeans.
He came out Tuesday afternoon early. He came all the way into 70 yards. Obviously, I wasn’t going to take that shot with a bow. He ended up skirting me. I got around behind a lot of brush and ended up coming in all the way to 25 yards. I didn’t get a shot at him because he was behind the brush. Something interesting, though, he ended up hanging right around me until well after shooting light ended. I actually got back out into the open. What I had to do is I had to sit there and wait for that deer and all the other deer to clear the area and leave before I could even get out of my stand. I had to sit in my stand Tuesday afternoon probably 45 minutes longer than I typically would because I didn’t want to bump that deer and bump all the deer that were around it. I knew that might have a potential effect on what that deer would do. It might mess his pattern up. I ended up sitting in my tree stand well after dark. That way I didn’t bump those deer. It finally cleared and I was able to get out.
I came back the next day, that would have been Wednesday which was the day I was blessed with an opportunity to kill him. I knew I had to do something different because when they came out in that field that I had been watching, that little clover plot and alfalfa plot, they’d come halfway across it and then skirt it. I’d seen deer do that in the past. I knew that was what the deer likes to do and how they use that. I don’t know why there’s no rhyme or reason but that’s what they do. It’s almost like a dogleg. They come out halfway into that field and then they dogleg off to the left and then sometimes they’d circle back around. That’s what the deer does in that area. I was like, “I’m going to have to cut the distance.” I’ve never hung a stand where I hung a stand at, simply because it puts you right in the middle of the deer. The deer can come out anywhere around you by getting that far. I knew I had to do it if I was going to have a shot at getting this deer.
What I did was I cut the distance in half from where I had sat and where the deer first entered the open. I basically moved forward. The new stand location was about 100 yards from where the deer entered the open which where the deer were bedding at was a little cedar thicket. It wasn’t a thick, dense cedar thicket. It was open and mature cedars. The wind could get through there and there was a little pond down in there. I think they were bedding down in there close to the edge. Those deer were probably bedding within probably 50 or 60 yards of that edge.
I did a hanging hunt. I got in there pretty early. It took about an hour and a half to hang that stand because I didn’t want to clank any metal on metal. I didn’t want to make any noise. I hung it slow. I took my time. Honestly, that deer was inside of 150 yards probably of where I was hanging that stand. I got everything set up, we had another little rain shower that moved through Wednesday afternoon and the deer were everywhere. I ended up seeing a ton of deer. He ended coming back out again, not quite as early as he did. He probably came out about ten minutes later than he did the previous afternoon, but he showed himself and he moved on through.
Some other deer had to clear me. It was stressful because I was hunting off-wind. It was funny because the deer was bedding maybe the northwest of me. I had an east wind which was blowing out into the field that was to my left. I was looking toward where the deer was bedding at and I had timber to my right, that big clover and alfalfa field to my left and another big timber block in front of me to my north. They were bedding off down in that. I know that’s where they were bedding at. I knew it was going to be risky because I had a wind blowing from right to left, which was an off-wind. I noticed that the deer hit this open field like that on east winds because they can use that wind to their advantage. When they come up out of that bedding area, they immediately have a wind blowing from that other timber block. They can smell anything that’s on this other timber block perpendicular to the one that they use to bed in a lot of the times.
He comes out and the wind was blowing basically straight out into the field. I knew I could get a shot at the deer before he caught my scent going because it was blowing to me. I would have a slightly quartered shot but I knew if I could get him to stop, I could get a shot at him before he caught my scent. The worry was all the deer, the waves of deer that would come through before he did. Luckily, I only had one deer that actually hit my scent cone before he did. The deer stopped and stood there for about ten minutes. Luckily, it was a year-and-a-half-old buck that wasn’t very smart. I got lucky but he ended up moving on through and he didn’t blow or didn’t spook or anything. I don’t think he got my full wind. I think he got just enough of it that it made him nervous.
After that deer cleared, I knew I was pretty much in the clear as long as the deer came on into range. I knew I was probably in the clear as far as getting a shot off and I did. He came on in. It’s interesting though to note, hunting these off-winds, these deer are more apt to move in daylight I believe if they have the wind in their favor. If you give these deer enough wind to think they have the wind advantage, I think they’re more likely to move in daylight and that’s why he moved the two afternoons that I saw him. I actually shot the deer. He was only about five to ten yards from entering my scent cone, whenever I ended up shooting. The deer had the wind in its advantage, but I had to keep constant tabs on where that wind was hitting. That way I knew exactly where I had to shoot that deer and not let him get past that point or the hunt would have been over.
How close did he come to you before you shot?
It was a 25-yard shot.
He got out of his bed, got into the field and he was about 100 yards from you to the north. He was meandering down. Was he coming on a line or what did he do when he hit the field?
When he hit the field, he stayed about the same distance the whole time from the treeline that I was looking down. He pretty much stayed the same distance, about 20 to 30 yards away from that treeline as he tracked to the south as he got closer to me. What he was doing was they were coming out of that bedding area that was to the North. I’ll hunt that bedding area that they come out of during the rut because a lot of does will bed in there, but I don’t like to go in there because I know they like to bed right on that edge. I don’t invade in that area during the early season or even the pre-rut. He comes up out of there. They were coming into that clover field and alfalfa field and they were feeding there until dark and moving off onto the neighbor’s bean fields that were well to the south of me. I think that’s the pattern that they were on.
This is the biggest lesson I probably took away personally from this particular deer. The camera location that I have had this deer on a morning pattern all summer long. The distance from that camera to where I ended up shooting this deer where he was standing at in the afternoon, I think this deer had been using the same afternoon pattern all summer long but I didn’t have until I sprinkled those cameras out. I didn’t know he was doing that. It’s interesting because from that morning pattern trail camera that I had him on during the summer where I shot him at was only about 90 yards difference away.
The important thing that I took away from this particular deer is that if anybody out there ever has a deer on camera. They’re getting pictures of the deer at night or they had the deer on camera in the daytime and they suddenly stopped getting pictures of the deer at all or at least stopped getting pictures in the daytime. They don’t automatically think that the deer is gone or that deer is purely nocturnal because that’s probably not the case. What’s most likely happened is that deer has changed his pattern enough. He may be using the exact same area and he may be using a trail that’s a few yards away and he’s not hitting your camera. That’s exactly what was happening with this deer. I had stopped getting daylight pictures where I originally was getting daylight pictures of this deer before the season and started getting pictures of this deer on the new cameras that I put up. The fact remains that this deer was still moving a lot in daylight. I had to figure out where that was at but it was still close to where I had originally been getting daylight pictures. You’ve got to relearn the deer and figure out where their preferred travel routes are.
One thing I like to do for all my guests is to ask them, given everything you’ve learned and known now, what do you wish you knew several years ago that would’ve put you further ahead of the game now?
That’s the biggest lesson that I’ve learned because a lot of people out there and I’ve been that person too. There’s no shame or anything because only in the last few years did I really drive this lesson home for myself and start believing it. In years past, I’ve been running cameras for a long time. If I was getting nighttime pictures of a deer, I would think, “That deer is nocturnal,” or “That deer must be living way over on some other property.” A lot of times, while that might be true, I don’t think it is. More times than not I think that’s not true.
I shouldn’t say that the nocturnal buck is a myth because there are certainly bucks that are less apt to move in daylight than others, but it is. Let me qualify that or explain that. Every deer moves in daylight. Some deer move less in daylight than others, but all deer will move at least some in daylight. The reason I say that is the studies have shown that every whitetail feeds at least once or twice during the day. Generally, that feeding takes place within their bedding area, but still, the deer are up and moving during the daytime. Some bucks sure, you might have to get close to their bedding area in order to catch that deer moving in daylight, but not every deer is like that. This deer was moving 150 to 200 yards in daylight, is what this particular deer that I killed. That’s how much he moved, unless he was bedding further away than I thought, which I don’t think he was. I think he was on the interior of that cedar thicket. Other deer may only move 70 or 80 yards in daylight. Some may only move 50 or 60 in daylight.
If you are stealthy enough, you are quiet enough and you have a good enough plan that you can get close enough to that deer’s bed, you can pretty much catch any deer moving in daylight. It’s important to note that just because you get nighttime pictures of a deer, don’t automatically think you can’t kill that deer. As long as you learn that deer’s pattern, you learn where that deer’s bedding, you can learn where he’s feeding and you connect the dots. Figure out where you’ve got to get in order to have a shot at killing that deer, I think you can kill any deer in the woods. You have to be able to put in a lot of effort and time to scout these deer. It goes back to the pre-season. Whenever it comes to these deer, I generally know when they’re in a bedding area or where they are actually bedding at, the specific beds where they lay down.
Relearn the deer and figure out where their preferred travel routes are. Share on XI go in and mark those buck beds when I find them and remember those. If I think a deer’s bedding in a particular bedding area, I pretty well know where he’s at within that bedding area more times than not. It’s because I’ve scouted the property during the previous post-season and I have a good idea. I know about how close I can get to that without the deer either hearing me or seeing me. Obviously he won’t smell me because I’m not going to go in there with the wind blowing straight to his bed. Hunt off-winds where it’s just skirting by the deer, but that’s another big discussion.
That’s the lesson that I learned from this deer was to don’t automatically think that a deer is nocturnal or living completely on another property because you get nighttime pictures or no pictures at all of a deer that you’ve been seeing. It’s because the deer could’ve changed. He could be using the exact same pattern and not walking by that trail camera. He could be walking ten yards to the right of that camera every afternoon and you wouldn’t know he doesn’t walk in front of it. That’s the biggest lesson that I took away from this particular deer.
One thing when you mentioned the trail cameras, a lot of people use minerals where it’s legal. They can put down corn or a bait. They’re drawing deer into there, so the deer are showing up at night. They’re not considering the daytime. That’s my takeaway from what you just said. They’re not considering, “Where is this deer in the daytime?” He’s not coming in the mineral during the daylight, they’re coming at nighttime. From what you say, you don’t know that unless you spend some time on observation stands and get a sense of what they’re doing. Is that a correct statement?
Yes, that’s what I took away from this particular deer. There’s been other deer that I’ve hunted that have supported that, but this deer reemphasized that concept for me for sure.
Let’s take a look at the buck when he was alive. Let’s talk about Mr. Wonderful and that little Pope and Young who is like an eight-pointer beside him. Is that the overgrown alfalfa-clover field?
There’s a lot of grass out in that field too, but yes, that’s the field. There are some remnants of alfalfa. There’s a lot of clover in that field. That’s the actual field that I hunted this deer in and saw the deer in. That’s where that deer was standing whenever he came in to 70 yards and then he skirted me. Basically, where that deer is standing, just to the right of the edge of the treeline is where I ended up doing the hanging hunt and that’s about where I shot him.
His little buddy looks like his offspring hanging right with him. Is that deer a two and a half, three-and-a-half-year-old buck?
I think the deer that’s to the right of him, he’s a three-and-a-half-year-old deer. I’ve had him on camera. These two bucks, they’ve been running together most of the summer. The deer to the right of him, that’s about a 120-inch. That puts in perspective how big a deer this buck truly was. I did a rough gross green velvet score of this buck that I killed. I did that and measured him multiple times. Multiple people measured him too. The lowest score we got on this deer was 170. Some people, by looking at the pictures, you won’t be able to tell. Some people have already called me a liar and said he wasn’t 170, but his rough gross velvet score was 170.
Obviously, if you take away the velvet and you let the deer dry for about 60 days, he’s probably only going to score about below 160s gross. Probably around 162, 163. He’s got that weak side G2. This also puts it in perspective. That weak side G2 on his right side, that was still over eight inches long. That shows you how big of a deer that was. I’d say the deer probably nets in the high 50s if you take away velvet and you let the deer have the 60-day drying period. He was definitely the biggest eight-pointer I will probably ever kill. He’s the biggest buck of my life. He’s the biggest buck I’ve ever been blessed to harvest. That shows how big he is. His frame was what did it. Both of his main beams were shy of 30 inches, which those who know whitetails, 30-inch beams are as rare as it gets. There are very few deer who have ever grown 30-inch beams, especially eight-pointers. I think one side was an eighth-inch shy of hitting 30, and the other one was a sixteenth of an inch shy of hitting 30. He was truly a deer of a lifetime, at least for me.
Josh has given us a lot of think factors. Talk to me about 50 acres, because that’s one thing that intrigues me because everybody thinks, “I need 100 acres. I need this and I need that to have a successful thing.” One, you need a habitat. Two, you need a good game management plan where the deer are growing. The deer have to want to stay on your property. Obviously, this deer was living on your property and going to visit the neighbors, but his was a couple of times a core area, which is 20 acres, 30 acres or 40 acres. It could be down to ten acres depending on the area. I know some suburban bucks, it’s a matter of less than an acre is their core living area and they go munch on people’s flowers from there but they always return to that core area. When you talk about core areas, 50 acres, how much is that deer actually using of that? Since you’ve been over it quite a bit in post-season hunts, I think you could nail that pretty close.
A lot of people think that you need a ton of ground and you’ve got to pay a lot of money to kill big deer and that’s not true. This particular is only about 50 acres in size, that particular tract of land. It’s somewhere that I hunt by permission. I don’t own it, I don’t lease it. I’m very fortunate that I’ve had it to hunt by permission, but that’s what it is. I’ve been blessed because I’ve been able to take a good number of deer off that property in the past seasons. You don’t have to have a lot of lands. That particular deer, it can be a little harder to hunt small properties. A lot of studies show that a deer is pretty loyal to its core area. It’s loyal to its bedding area. If you bump that deer bad enough and do so repetitively, you can push that deer and alter that deer’s patterns and where he spends most of his time.
You do have to hunt smaller properties a little more intelligently, a little smarter, which is why I didn’t hunt the deer for the first three days of the season. I didn’t feel I had a good enough bid on that deer’s behavior and patterns for me to go in there and have a good shot at getting a deer. Once I gathered enough information, had enough information and thought I had a legitimate shot at tagging him, I moved on in there. You have to be careful hunting those smaller properties. I would say a small property is anything less than 75 to 80 acres, maybe less than 100 acres, especially when you get down to those 40, 50, 60-acre or fewer properties. You can’t risk bumping deer because I’ve done it plenty. Once you start pressuring the deer and once you start getting on deer’s radars, it does affect them and it makes it more difficult moving forward.
On that land, how much of the 50 acres do the whitetails use year-round?
As far as that 50 acres, the part that is what I would call huntable for a bow hunter, you could cover more of it because there is a big part of that 50 acres that’s wide open that deer will travel through. It’s not a consistent activity, but you can and I have killed deer on the more open side with a rifle. I would say, as far as of that 50 acres what are huntable as a bowhunter and for bow hunters, I would say probably half of it, 25 acres is a good number.
How many stands do you have up on that 50 acres?
Just three. That counts the one that I ended up doing the hanging hunt on. I’m a very big proponent of hanging a lot of stands. You may not hunt those stands, but the reason I like hanging a lot of stands, which I hadn’t done on this property because I’ve hunted this property so long. Even though I ended up doing something different as far as where I ended up hunting at and where I ended up killing this particular deer was a little bit different, from a little bit different stand location. I had a pretty good idea of how the deer used that property. This deer was a little bit different in the way he used it versus other deer in past seasons. I do like hanging a lot of stands and the reason is that deer was only 70-80 yards off of the pattern that he had been on all summer long. I didn’t have a stand location to take advantage of where he was spending his time after he changed that pattern. I had to do the hanging hunt, which you can do that.
I would much rather already have a stand location already set, which is where hanging a lot of stands comes into play and becomes a factor. If you already have that stand location in there, you can go in and hunt it. If you have to do that hanging hunt, even though the hanging hunt is very effective, there is a little bit of risk involved. Especially if you accidentally clink a climbing stick on another climbing stick or if you accidentally clink a stand on a climbing stick or make any noise, there is a little risk involved when you do hanging hunts. If you make the wrong move, you’re going to alert that deer especially if you’re trying to get close to that deer say inside of 100 yards.
If you’re trying to hang a stand inside of 100 yards of that deer’s bedding area, there is a lot of risks involved. You’ve got to be very quiet. It does pay to already have those stands in place and have a lot of stands in place. That way, when you do your scouting from afar missions or hunt from an observation stand and you see where a deer is at and see what pattern it’s on and say, “He’s coming 30 yards past that stand right over there, that’s where I’m going to hunt him.” If you already have those stands in place, it’s much more advantageous because you don’t have to worry about bumping that deer when you hang that stand. The hanging hunt is certainly a good option, and that’s what I used to get this deer.
Congratulations again on that. Have you started hunting for 2019 yet?
I have not started scouting yet here, but soon. Of course, my cameras are still up and running, so you could say that I’m still scouting. I’ve got all my cameras still going. As far as trying to find a particular deer that I’ll try to make a game plan for or a list of deer I’ll try to make game plans for, that’ll start pretty soon.
Josh, as always, it’s a pleasure. You’re doing a great job over there at RealTree.com. If somebody wants to get a hold of you, how would they do that?
You can reach out to me on Facebook. I’m active on there, or you can look me up on Instagram, either one. My Instagram is @Josh_Honeycutt and then Josh Honeycutt for Facebook.
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You can go straight to RealTree.com and you can see all the work that we’re doing there. You can contact us directly. Every article has an email tab. Any article that you read, if you have a question about that article, any comment or whatever, you can either comment in the comment section. We’re pretty good about getting back to those comments or you can use the email address that’s listed in those articles which I think is [email protected]. We’ll respond to that.
Josh Honeycutt is the RealTree.com Deer Hunting Editor. It’s been a pleasure.
Thanks for having me on.
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About JOsh Honeycutt
Josh Honeycutt is a back-country deer hunter from Kentucky who grew up slinging arrows and bullets at pressured river bottom whitetails. If it’s deer or turkey season, you’ll find him high in an oak tree or sitting up against one. And he enjoys spending that time in the outdoors with his wife, Kathryn, as well as the rest of his family and friends.
Josh has hunted the prairie whitetails of Kansas to the river bottom bucks of Kentucky to the pine-dwelling deer of South Carolina. Simply put, he loves to hunt deer. And it doesn’t matter where, either.
His passion for the outdoors led to a career as an outdoor writer, photographer and videographer. Josh has been a regular contributor to Realtree.com since 2012 and came on board as the associate editor and deer hunting editor in July of 2015. He writes the Brow Tines and Backstrap blog. His work has been published in nearly 50 publications and websites including: Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, North American Whitetail, Whitetail Journal, Game & Fish, Fur-Fish-Game, and more.