# 517 Deer Hunting – Real Tree – Josh Honeycutt

Hey, folks, welcome to a special edition of Whitetail Rendezvous Deer Hunting – Real Tree – Josh Honeycutt. All our editions are special, but what we’re doing with Realtree and Josh Honeycutt, he is the deer hunting manager. And what does that mean? He takes care of all the digital. You go to the website and look up “deer hunting” and there’s josh, and he’s handling all that for Realtree. So Josh and I have come together and once a month we’re going to kind of go over what they’re putting out, what they’re seeing on a monthly basis. And this session we’re going to talk about prepping for the season. That’s wide open, that’s a lot of things. And the other part, the second part of the show, we’re going to talk about land management. Josh, let’s just start right off with, you know, what you’re seeing, what you’re hearing, and what you’re telling people about preseason prepping. https://www.realtree.com/brow-tines-and-backstrap/21-off-season-tasks-for-true-deer-hunters Yeah, I mean this is a good time of year. 21 Off-Season Tasks for True Deer Hunters Turkey season is starting to wind down, I’m actually finishing up https://www.realtree.com/turkey-hunting. I’ve got three more episodes of our digital turkey series The Reason for the Hunt https://www.realtree.com/deer-hunting/videos/the-reason-for-the-hunt-early-season-deer-hunting-and-droptine-bucks that we’ve put out, we’ve got three episodes of that to release this month, and then we’ll be full bore into deer season. But, yeah, it’s the time of year whenever everybody is really starting to transition off of turkey season or starting to think more about land management, starting to think more about getting out there and getting ready for deer season. But, yeah, there’s a lot of things that we’re doing right now. We haven’t actually started putting out mineral yet here, at least not in Kentucky. Some states can, but we can’t put mineral out until May 31st. You can’t feed wildlife from I think it’s March 1st to May 31st. So we haven’t really started putting mineral out for deer yet, we haven’t put any kind of bait out for deer, I have not put my cameras back out yet. Once June 1st hits, you know, usually that first week of June, that’s when I put my mineral out, that’s when I put my cameras back out. But right now I have been pretty heavy on planting spring food plots. Or, excuse me, planting early season food plots for early bow season that we’ll kind of focus on during September and October. https://www.realtree.com/users/jhoneycutt So early season food plots is a big topic right now because everybody is planting those. If you want to plant fall food plots, obviously we’re going to wait until August or September to plant those, but depending on where you’re at in the country. But, yeah, it’s the time of year where it’s not quite full bore in preseason mode for most people, but we’re definitely right on the cusp of that preseason work busting loose. So early season food plots is a big topic right now Now when you’re saying you put in some, you know, summer crops, what are you putting in? Well, mostly what we plant for early season, at least here what I prefer, and this is all personal preference, I love for an early season food plot… Because, see, I’m in an area where it’s a good mix of timber,