Episode #154 - Dogs Running Loose on Don’s Farm. HE IS NOT HAPPY!

Published: 2023-01-29 Episode page Duration: 62 min

In this episode

asio

• Don observes that a year ago he never saw an ASIO garment on any of his 80-plus consulting visits, but now sees them at over half the properties he visits. 49:49
• Joe announces ASIO is releasing a smaller run-and-gun backpack at 1,800 cubic inches, down from their current 2,600-cubic-inch model. 54:51
• Joe announces ASIO’s new non-metallic belt, designed without a buckle so it won’t rub or snag while hunting. 55:00
• Joe announces ASIO is adding a late-season vest with 180 grams of Primaloft insulation to its lineup. 55:47
• Joe explains ASIO offers a lifetime warranty on all garments, repairing or replacing them even if a zipper breaks five years later. 60:42
• Joe explains ASIO provides free shipping and a prepaid return label so customers can try garments and exchange for the correct size at no cost. 60:17

ata-show

• Terry recalls telling Joe Miles at the ATA Show about Real World’s new Nutri-Crave Corn deer corn, and Joe got noticeably excited. 33:13

big-bucks

• Don says nobody stacks up big bucks like Joe Miles does, comparing his rack collection to cordwood. 1:14

buck-age

• Don notes that outdoor writer Bill Winke has also written about older bucks becoming overconfident and easier to kill. 14:09
• Joe asks Don whether older bucks, nine and a half or older, start letting their guard down, or if increased daylight movement is just happenstance. 13:00
• Terry asks whether an older buck’s easier killability is due to personality/guard letting down, or because its core area shrinks to a smaller, safer spot. 17:29

business-integrity

• Joe says that unlike other companies wanting free sponsorship swag, the hosts were the only ones who insisted on actually buying his product. 51:45

consulting

• Terry recounts finding an explorable cave on a consulting property visit last weekend, though he was too scared to go inside. 8:09
• Terry describes finding an old rock wall staircase built into a hillside deep in the woods, far from any other structures. 8:28

coyote-dogs

• Jeremy Zimmerman asks whether it’s harmful to allow coyote hunters to run dogs through his property, including deer sanctuaries. 35:33

coyote-hunting

• Terry asks Don to describe how he does allow coyote hunters onto his property with minimal intrusion. 37:10

dogs

• Don says the same two stray dogs ran through his own farm’s sanctuary twice this November, caught on camera at least five or six times total. 39:54

drone-deer-recovery

• Steven Myers asks Don and Terry for their opinion on using thermal drone services to recover wounded deer and to take deer inventory counts on private property. 44:18

drone-laws

• Terry predicts states will soon expand laws restricting drone use as it relates to wildlife. 46:44

edge-habitat

• Joe notes his friend’s neighbor, who owns only 75 cutover acres next to a manicured 2,500-acre property, consistently kills the biggest deer. 31:11

hunting-philosophy

• Joe Miles says he filmed many hunts in his 30s and early 40s but stepped back from filming to focus on pure hunting, wanting to start again. 16:59

land-management

• Don advises landowners to make their property drastically different from the neighbor’s through better cover and food, since deer choose comparatively. 27:15

land-ownership

• Don argues landowners don’t truly own their land since they must pay annual taxes and can be forced to allow others onto it, like coyote-dog hunters. 39:04

live-event

• Don announces a live Chasing Giants podcast recording event on February 2 in Middlefield, Ohio. 4:20

mature-bucks

• Terry says a 140-inch five-year-old buck is just as hard to kill as a 175-inch five-year-old, since mature bucks are mature everywhere. 1:47
• Don explains a typical big mature buck survives by finding a small overlooked pocket nobody bothers, which also explains beginner’s luck. 19:21

mexico-hunt

• Joe Miles plans to fly to Mexico the next morning to try mule deer hunting for the first time as the rut winds down. 11:20

mexico-ranch

• Joe describes hunting a 100% free-range, 30,000-acre Mexican ranch known for producing 180- and 190-class bucks. 21:11

millersburg

• Don says the Millersburg event already has over 500 people who called in and reserved a spot, with more expected. 6:05

mission-whitetail

• Joe plugs his podcast Mission Whitetail on Facebook and Instagram, his personal handle joe miles hunting, and the ASIO website asiogear.com. 59:16

nutricrave-corn

• An anonymous listener from Guthrie, Kentucky asks if someone else is really selling the same Nutri-Crave Corn cheaper through the same distributor, or if it’s a sales gimmick. 40:34

prayer-request

• Terry reports that an Amish community in Northern Iowa suffered a serious van accident that killed a 23-year-old father and his two-year-old son, among other deaths. 2:24

season-summary

• Joe Miles killed seven deer this season, including three in South Carolina and a 200-inch mule deer in Alberta. 12:02

seminar

• Terry clarifies that the February 3 Millersburg event is a true seminar, not a live podcast recording like the Middlefield event. 6:27

shipshewana

• Terry recalls an audience member in Shipshewana once asking on stage whether someone can be a Christian and believe in abortion. 7:14

south-carolina-season

• Don asks Joe whether he started his season in his home state of South Carolina back in August. 10:48

trade-event

• Don announces a Real World dealer event hosted by JB’s Feed and Supply on February 3 in Millersburg, Ohio. 5:26

trade-show

• Joe announces ASIO’s first 2023 trade show stop is the Harrisburg Show, running February 4 through 12, with a big booth and full inventory. 53:45

trail-camera

• The listener also asks how Don decides exactly where to set up a trail camera when he finds a small out-of-the-way patch of cover. 41:06

tsi

• Don says the key to improving deer habitat is opening the forest canopy to let in as much sunlight as possible. 28:42
• Don says a heavily cut, tornado-like clearing may look terrible at first, but one summer of sunlight makes the forest floor explode with new growth. 28:56
• Terry tells consulting clients that opening the canopy is the fastest way to create thick bedding cover, especially on south-facing hillsides. 29:22

whitetail-behavior

• Joe describes whitetails as creatures of the edge, feeling safe near thick cover yet brave enough to move to the edge before dark. 32:04

Deer activity

• unnamed buck (harvest) 12:08
• unnamed buck (history) 14:21
• unnamed buck (harvest) 16:08
• unnamed buck (history) 18:34
• unnamed buck (harvest) 21:46

Listener questions

Question: Don asks Joe whether he started his season in his home state of South Carolina back in August. 10:48 — asked by Don

• Answer: Joe confirms South Carolina’s season opened August 15, one of the earliest in the country. 10:53

Question: Joe asks Don whether older bucks, nine and a half or older, start letting their guard down, or if increased daylight movement is just happenstance. 13:00 — asked by Joe Miles

• Answer: Don agrees older bucks become overconfident after surviving years of pressure in their home range, causing them to move more in daylight. 13:53

Question: Terry asks whether an older buck’s easier killability is due to personality/guard letting down, or because its core area shrinks to a smaller, safer spot. 17:29 — asked by Terry

• Answer: Don agrees older bucks likely do feel safer in a smaller core area, which is why they settle there as they age. 17:57

Question: Jeremy Zimmerman asks whether it’s harmful to allow coyote hunters to run dogs through his property, including deer sanctuaries. 35:33 — asked by Jeremy Zimmerman

• Answer: Don says dogs are the worst thing to allow on a property, worse than humans, and he would never allow coyote dogs on his land. 36:00

Question: Terry asks Don to describe how he does allow coyote hunters onto his property with minimal intrusion. 37:10 — asked by Terry

• Answer: Don explains he allows night coyote hunting with thermal scopes only in open ag fields far from deer cover, which has minimal impact on deer. 37:26

Question: An anonymous listener from Guthrie, Kentucky asks if someone else is really selling the same Nutri-Crave Corn cheaper through the same distributor, or if it’s a sales gimmick. 40:34

• Answer: Don confirms Real World is the only authorized seller of NutriCrave Corn and anyone claiming to sell it cheaper elsewhere is misleading customers. 42:42

Question: The listener also asks how Don decides exactly where to set up a trail camera when he finds a small out-of-the-way patch of cover. 41:06

• Answer: Don says the key to camera placement is figuring out exactly where a buck enters and exits that pocket of cover. 43:54

Question: Steven Myers asks Don and Terry for their opinion on using thermal drone services to recover wounded deer and to take deer inventory counts on private property. 44:18 — asked by Steven Myers

• Answer: Don fully supports drone use for locating wounded deer but thinks using drones to take deer inventory counts on a property is ridiculous. 45:09

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