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

Published: 2023-01-29
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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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Joe Miles joined Don and Terry to discuss the season and mature buck behavior. Terry argued a 140-inch five-year-old is as hard to kill as a 175-inch one, and both hosts agreed older bucks grow overconfident and settle into smaller, safer core areas, causing more daylight movement. Joe recapped killing seven deer, including three in South Carolina, where the season opened August 15, and a 200-inch mule deer in Alberta, and said he planned to fly to Mexico to try mule deer hunting for the first time. Don covered habitat advice, stressing opening the forest canopy for sunlight to build thick bedding cover and making a property distinctly different from neighboring land. Listener questions addressed allowing coyote-dog hunters on land, with Don calling dogs the worst intrusion but permitting night thermal hunting in open fields, plus drone use for recovering wounded deer versus deer inventory counts. Joe closed with ASIO gear updates, including a new backpack, belt, and insulated vest.

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