Author: Josh Honeycutt

These Age-Old Hunting Tactics Require You To Be Both Slow And Quick On Your Feet Soft snowflakes flutter from the sky and land on your face. Time stands still as you slowly place one foot in front of the other, taking long pauses between each minuscule move. Hours of this monotonous activity goes on, but for you, it isn’t monotonous at all. You see nature in a way you never have before. You’re a part of it. It comes to life around you, and you come to life around it. While treestands and ground blinds have their place, still hunting…

Article by Josh Honeycutt Check Out These Solid Bedding Areas and Other Places to Intercept Deer in Daylight Not every deer hunter has access to large acreages. Most hunt small parcels of land. For those in the latter situation, the hunt often requires more patience. Other times, it requires a balance of aggressive and passive approaches. Regardless, smaller tracts of land often need to be treated differently than large ones. Fortunately, you don’t need large pieces of land to kill big bucks. It’s possible to own, lease, or get permission to hunt on small lands and have success. After all,…

Article by Josh Honeycutt Bowhunting from an elevated position offers an excellent advantage. Being able to   hunt   from above allows hunters to get away with a little more movement, it opens shot opportunities, and it can make the difference in filling a tag or not. Still, there’s a lot to consider when using treestands and it takes some logic and lessons learned to realize their full potential. Five Key Factors Most Whitetail behavior—including where, when, and how they maneuver the landscape— revolves around five primary factors. These include: Daytime security bedding Food Water The rut (or lack thereof) and Hunting…

A list of reasons why that big buck you’ve been following suddenly vanished. I can think of numerous target bucks that disappeared on me, some of them were truly massive whitetails. There’s that main-frame 180-inch 11-pointer with a split G3 and heavy mass. The 185-inch non-typical with all kinds of character. Even that 175-inch clean, typical 10-pointer that departed, never to resurface again. Of course, it’s happened with dozens of other bucks that were “smaller,” but no less worthy of the hunt. Of course, more than half of yearling (1 ½-year-old) bucks will depart from their birthlands and find a…

Identify these hindrances, and then diagnose them Throw an antler over your shoulder in the middle of a brush-covered forest and see how long it takes to find it. Go on. Give it a good chuck. Then set that timer. You might get lucky and spot it right away. Or you might not (even with the hint of knowing it’s there). More times than not, it’ll take a bit to rediscover it. So, needless to say, shed hunting is not easy. All said, if you have a hard time finding sheds for real, you’re probably making some of these mistakes.…