Episode #38 Terry Kills a Illinois 8 Pointer and Don gets wound up on some industry topics! REALLY WOUND UP!

Published: 2020-11-23
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Duration: 71 min

In this episode

big-buck-sighting

• Terry recalls having a 216-inch deer in front of him while filming Don, though he was not the one shooting it. 20:48

bow-equipment

• Don clarifies he actually harvested his buck with his older Mathews bow, not the new V3 model he had photographed for marketing purposes. 68:17

broadheads

• Don declares mechanical broadheads are trash that should be outlawed. 33:42

buck-harvest

• Terry recounts shooting a good buck the previous morning around 8:45am after a difficult week of hunting. 4:44

buck-score

• Terry states the buck he harvested ended up scoring about 148.5 inches. 8:22

consulting-business

• Don reports he already has over 30 consulting visits booked for the winter season. 45:12

crossbow-hunting

• Terry states he believes crossbow hunting should have its own separate season rather than open access during archery season. 41:15

doe-estrus

• Don explains most doe fawns reach the roughly eighty-pound weight needed to enter their first estrous cycle randomly, most often in January. 18:12

doe-fawn-identification

• Terry observes that younger hunters often fail to distinguish does from fawns, mistaking hornless fawns for adult does when no bucks appear. 15:38

family-hunting

• Don recounts taking both daughters hunting young; one continued hunting while the other lost interest and was never pressured again. 36:30

giveaway

• Don announces he is giving away free attendance to each of three master courses held next March. 47:45

hunt-video

• Terry announces that the video of Mel’s harvest will be released on Don’s YouTube channel on Thanksgiving Day. 19:53

hunter-recruitment

• Don argues hunting is either in a person’s blood or it isn’t, rather than something that can be taught. 35:18

hunting-access

• Don says he has lost three hunting properties this year and expects to lose more. 34:58

hunting-land-leases

• Terry notes hunting land access has become difficult and expensive, citing lease prices around $25 to $30 an acre. 40:14

kinetic-energy

• Don illustrates that a heavier, slower object like a dropped golf ball carries more kinetic energy and penetrates farther than a fast, light object. 32:47

podcast-milestone

• Terry reports the podcast has surpassed 100,000 downloads after thirteen months and 38 episodes. 1:35

rut-timing

• Don predicts that by Thanksgiving and the following weekend, conditions will be fantastic for killing a mature buck. 12:41
• Don states the first two weeks of December are, in his opinion, the worst two weeks of deer season. 14:15

subdivision-deer

• Dustin Doss from Rockville, Indiana asks whether mature bucks near a subdivision get desensitized to human activity and can take riskier wind chances there. 52:25

trail-camera-placement

• Terry relays Exodus Trail Cameras’ advice to place cameras perpendicular rather than parallel to trails, to avoid deer detection. 63:59

trail-cameras

• Patrick Taylor from Grenada, Mississippi asks why mature bucks that notice a trail camera often are never photographed there again. 59:56

wind-direction

• Levi Wentworth from Atkinson, Nebraska asks how to learn wind patterns for stand sites in terrain with deep draws and cedar trees. 55:51

Deer activity

• unnamed buck (harvest) 8:22
• unnamed buck (sighting) 20:48
• unnamed buck (trail-camera) 62:30
• Mel (harvest) 66:49

Listener questions

Question: Dustin Doss from Rockville, Indiana asks whether mature bucks near a subdivision get desensitized to human activity and can take riskier wind chances there. 52:25 — asked by Dustin Doss

• Answer: Don explains a mature buck distinguishes between harmless human activity like yard work and dangerous human presence such as a hunter in the woods. 53:22

Question: Levi Wentworth from Atkinson, Nebraska asks how to learn wind patterns for stand sites in terrain with deep draws and cedar trees. 55:51 — asked by Levi Wentworth

• Answer: Don recommends keeping a wind sock at home to note wind direction, then checking how that same wind behaves at each stand site. 56:33

Question: Patrick Taylor from Grenada, Mississippi asks why mature bucks that notice a trail camera often are never photographed there again. 59:56 — asked by Patrick Taylor

• Answer: Don suggests hanging cameras about eight feet up using screw-in tree steps and angling them downward to keep them above a deer’s line of sight. 61:36

Sponsors this episode

• BuyAFarm.com
• 360 Hunting Blinds
• QuietKat
• Lone Wolf Treestands
• Mathews Archery
• Vortex Optics
• Real World Wildlife Products

Terry opened noting the podcast had passed 100,000 downloads after thirteen months and 38 episodes, then described shooting a buck around 8:45am that morning after a tough week, which scored about 148.5 inches. Don shared he had lost three hunting properties this year and expected more losses, while Terry noted lease prices around $25-$30 an acre. Don predicted great conditions around Thanksgiving for killing a mature buck, but called the first two weeks of December the worst of the season. He also clarified he actually harvested his buck with an older Mathews bow rather than the new V3 model used for marketing photos. Listener questions covered mature bucks near subdivisions, learning wind patterns using a wind sock, and why cameras often stop getting photos of a buck after it notices them, with Don recommending cameras be mounted about eight feet up and angled downward. Don also called mechanical broadheads trash and argued hunting ability is innate rather than taught.

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