Episode #10 - December Tips - Scouting for 2020 - Big Announcement from Real World

Published: 2019-12-13 Episode page Duration: 72 min

In this episode

ata-show

• Terry asks listeners to send feedback via social media about what they’d like covered at the upcoming ATA Show, which he and Don will both attend. 5:02

buck-harvest

• Terry harvested his first buck in September, while a second target buck on his farm survived Kentucky’s gun season. 9:10

buck-survival

• Don reports that two specific bucks he hoped would survive Illinois’s firearm season are both still alive after gun season ended. 7:33

buyafarm-property-vetting

• Terry states the show is committed to only featuring buyafarm.com properties the hosts are personally familiar with and have factual research on, not filler content. 2:17
• Don personally visits every property before featuring it on the podcast, walking it himself to verify it firsthand. 4:02

consulting

• Don announces his farm-consulting season has begun, with roughly 25 properties lined up to evaluate before the end of the year. 8:17

farm-management

• Don states that his farm setup is now dialed in so that any buck he wants to kill that shows up, he can eventually kill within a season. 17:21
• Don states he genuinely believes his farm is the best place he has ever hunted whitetails in his life. 37:41
• Terry jokingly calls his farm his ‘Graceland,’ agreeing it’s the best place he’s ever hunted. 37:48 (light moment)

giveaway

• Terry announces that Lone Wolf’s social media is running a giveaway offering a prize package every day, contributed by people who work with Lone Wolf. 68:58
• Don adds that his team donated a bucket of Maximizer mineral for each day of Lone Wolf’s giveaway, while Lone Wolf itself is giving away a tree stand daily. 69:51

invasive-plants

• Curt Maching of Aviston, Illinois asks for the best tips on hunting a property overtaken by invasive bush honeysuckle. 54:58
• Terry asks whether deer like to bed in dense bush honeysuckle. 57:05

late-season-food

• Casey Kimrey of Warrington, Missouri asks how to hunt in December with no food plots, relying only on browse and cut ag fields. 59:20

listener-reward

• Don announces that Chasing Giants T-shirts will be sent to listener question-askers Dustin, Kurt, and Casey. 68:03

mature-buck

• Terry recounts killing a six-and-a-half-year-old buck he had watched for three years on a 33-acre property, showing mature bucks can be taken even on small acreage. 36:25

mature-buck-behavior

• Dustin Kiesler asks why three-and-a-half-year-old bucks he lets go on his Kentucky lease vanish rather than returning as mature four-and-a-half-year-olds. 47:44

miscanthus

• Don describes the Miscanthus variety Real World selected as a tall, sterile, noninvasive grass that spreads only a few inches per year. 18:18
• Don states that after weeks of negotiation with the patent holder, Real World secured exclusive rights to market this patented Miscanthus variety for screening. 21:59
• Don reports that by the third year his planted Miscanthus formed a full screening wall, which has persisted every year since without any additional maintenance. 22:30
• Don states he personally uses the Real World Giant Miscanthus on his own farm and considers it unmatched by any other plot screen product on the market. 29:38
• Don plans to roughly double his farm’s hunting quality within three years, crediting Miscanthus screening as a major part of that improvement. 37:52

personal-announcement

• Terry announces he’s taking a week-long trip out of the country with his wife for their twentieth wedding anniversary, despite it falling during deer season. 70:54

podcast-schedule

• Terry reports getting several social-media messages from listeners worried after a week and a half passed without a new episode. 1:19
• Don announces the show now airs about every other week rather than weekly, addressing listener Steven Polk directly. 1:50
• Terry plans for the next Chasing Giants episode to release right before Christmas. 71:07

product-launch

• Terry announces that a revolutionary new product from Real World is being released, to be discussed later in the episode. 4:39
• Terry announces that Real World’s new screening product is officially named the Real World Giant Miscanthus Plot Screen and released today. 26:17
• The new Miscanthus plot screen product will be available for sale on Real World’s website before Christmas. 26:26

product-quality

• Terry states that Real World’s internal consensus was that if this new screening product wouldn’t stand up, they wouldn’t sell it. 24:13

screening

• Terry describes how Don’s farm uses edges, screening cover, and bedding grasses aligned with food plots to create travel corridors and a feeling of security for deer. 16:11

trail-cameras

• Don explains he uses trail cameras purely as inventory to confirm which bucks are present, since he already knows where he’d hunt each one. 12:29
• Don sets trail cameras on the edges of suspected bedding sanctuaries rather than inside them, to avoid bumping mature bucks out of secure cover. 13:12
• Terry asks Don whether, while scouting other properties, he’s shifting trail cameras back to food sources or leaving them on scrapes. 10:27

Deer activity

• unnamed buck (trail-camera) 7:42
• unnamed buck (harvest) 8:45
• unnamed buck (harvest) 9:10
• unnamed buck (harvest) 36:25
• unnamed buck (harvest) 55:24
• unnamed buck (sighting) 56:03

Listener questions

Question: Terry asks Don whether, while scouting other properties, he’s shifting trail cameras back to food sources or leaving them on scrapes. 10:27

• Answer: Don explains he’s shifting his cameras from scrape locations to well-used trails leading to prime food sources. 10:37
• Answer: Don adds that his cameras are placed not on the food source itself but on major trails leading to it, since food is his focus. 11:03

Question: Dustin Kiesler asks why three-and-a-half-year-old bucks he lets go on his Kentucky lease vanish rather than returning as mature four-and-a-half-year-olds. 47:44

• Answer: Don advises that most of a hunting property should be an off-limits sanctuary area, since mature bucks above all want seclusion and freedom from human intrusion. 49:13
• Answer: Don adds that insufficient security on Dustin’s property is likely why the mature bucks aren’t sticking around. 49:21
• Answer: Terry says that once he committed to targeting mature bucks, he had to cut back on how much he entered the property. 50:28
• Answer: Terry recommends minimizing property pressure and only hunting in the right conditions and wind, meaning less time in the stand but greater success. 52:35

Question: Curt Maching of Aviston, Illinois asks for the best tips on hunting a property overtaken by invasive bush honeysuckle. 54:58 — asked by Curt Maching

• Answer: Don explains he cut a small trail through the bush honeysuckle to his stand in winter, then sprayed the stumps so the cut plants wouldn’t regrow. 55:46
• Answer: Don advises cutting a path through the honeysuckle in winter with a chainsaw or pruning saw wherever you want deer to travel, guaranteeing they’ll use it. 56:14

Question: Terry asks whether deer like to bed in dense bush honeysuckle. 57:05

• Answer: Don explains bush honeysuckle creates very thick cover but kills everything growing on the ground beneath it. 57:09

Question: Casey Kimrey of Warrington, Missouri asks how to hunt in December with no food plots, relying only on browse and cut ag fields. 59:20 — asked by Casey Kimrey

• Answer: Don says that after the rut, hunters must focus on food since that’s the deer’s priority. 59:51
• Answer: Don advises identifying deer’s preferred feeding field on the property and setting up between bedding and that food source. 60:13
• Answer: Terry says he tries to work with the landowner to understand the farmer’s plans for the field. 61:19
• Answer: Terry recommends broadcasting Real World’s winter forage oat blend. 62:09
• Answer: Terry explains broadcasting oats into standing corn or turning beans before harvest lets the combine drive over them, creating a green late-season food source if the farmer skips fall tillage. 62:18
• Answer: Don suggests broadcasting Real World Plot Topper into standing soybeans before harvest; once the farmer cuts the beans, the plot quickly grows in as a late-season food source. 64:27

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