Jonathon Taylor
Posted By
Chad Lathrop
at
9/23/2009 12:00:00 AM
Jonathon Taylor has been an avid outdoorsman, both hunting and fishing, his whole life. He spent most of his adolescent days with his uncle and grandfather hunting, hiking, fishing and trapping the beautiful hills of Martin County. Jonathon, along with his wife Candy, his 6 year old son, Brady, and 2 year old daughter, Olivia, currently reside and work in southern Indiana. Jonathon is an engineer in supporting the Nation’s Warfighters abroad.
As in the case with a few other hunters, Jonathon’s hunting is done mainly on federal ground and his family’s private farm in southern Indiana - an area that continues to recover from a bout with EHD that hit 2 years ago. EHD killed a large number of the deer herd. However, there are signs that the herd numbers are already back to where they were prior to the EHD outbreak.
The vast majority of the federal land is “big woods”, which does provide a unique set of challenges of its own. Patterning deer in this type of environment challenges even the best of hunters both physically and mentally. There are plenty of previously timbered tracts with old grown up clear cuts and thickets that provide excellent cover for those Hoosier bucks Jonathon will pursue this season.
Jonathon also strives to manage the family farm better in hopes of improving the quality of habitat that is essential in producing the kind of mature whitetails one would expect from southern Indiana.
Jonathon's 2010 Hit List
"Mr. Ten"
"Slate" 
Jonathon’s 2009 Hit List
Make sure you keep checking back for updates on Jonathon's hit list. He The following words are Jonathon's.
“OLD MONARCH”: This buck originally showed up in a trail cam photo early in the '08 season. This year I caught him coming and going via an old roadbed between some older clear cuts then funnelling through a clover field and finally down to some light agriculture areas. I can't wait to start hunting this buck. Hopefully he will stick to this area for a few more weeks.
