Joe Miles

Role: recurring guest
Appears in 8 episodes

Joe Miles appeared across eight episodes between March 2022 and July 2025, on mic each time, as a co-host with Don and Terry. He runs ASIO Gear, discussing product launches like a new ground-predator-inspired camo pattern, insulated jackets, boots, and packs, alongside trade show and sale announcements. He recounts hunts in Africa, Mexico, and South Carolina, including a nineteen-day leopard hunt, and answers listener questions on buck age, bedding access, hunting pressure, and mineral supplementation, generally favoring hunting-pressure discipline over targeting deer by method.

Appearances

What they said

Showing 47 of 90 claims across the 20 most-discussed of 55 topics. The complete record is on the episode pages above.

africa

• Joe worked in Africa for seven years right out of school, which gave him strong hunting connections there. 14:42 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles

africa-hunting

• Joe Miles took his son to Africa, sat at a waterhole one afternoon and saw nine species of big game, and called it a magical bowhunter’s paradise. 2:12 — Episode #181 - What is new with Asio Gear?
• Joe Miles recounted that his tracker lit Cape Buffalo dung on fire as cover scent, and the smell stuck to his backpack and upset the people who flew home with him. 3:48 — Episode #181 - What is new with Asio Gear?

announcement

• Joe Miles announces the launch of Chasing Giants TV, a Mission Whitetail series, produced together with Don Higgins. 2:35 — Episode 232 - We are starting a TV Show!

asio (8 of 12)

• Joe Miles announces a 30% off sitewide preseason preorder sale at ASIO running through August 4. 33:56 — Episode 232 - We are starting a TV Show!
• Joe Miles announces ASIO will have a full trade show booth at the Mobile Hunters Expo, August 11 at Spooky Nook Sports. 35:12 — Episode 232 - We are starting a TV Show!
• Joe Miles gives ASIO’s phone number so Amish customers without internet access can call to order or preorder Bobby’s book. 34:42 — Episode 232 - We are starting a TV Show!
• Joe Miles said ASIO Gear experimented with Amish dealers in a couple of communities this year and it worked very well, prompting plans to expand. 39:28 — Episode #202 - Strange Sponsorship Requests with Joe Miles
• Joe Miles said ASIO Gear plans to attend 19 different trade shows next year, spanning states from Iowa to Nebraska, Alabama, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio. 38:54 — Episode #202 - Strange Sponsorship Requests with Joe Miles
• Joe Miles announced ASIO Gear has been developing a quiet, insulated ‘puffy jacket’ meant to work as a loft mid-layer for hunters. 48:12 — Episode #202 - Strange Sponsorship Requests with Joe Miles
• Joe Miles announced ASIO Gear has a windproof heavyweight hoodie, new gloves, and new hats coming, with fabrics staying the same. 48:21 — Episode #202 - Strange Sponsorship Requests with Joe Miles
• 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 — Episode #154 - Dogs Running Loose on Don’s Farm. HE IS NOT HAPPY!

asio-camo

• Joe said the new ground-predator inspired pattern came from realizing predators like mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes, and wolves offered a different camo concept than tree predators. 32:20 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Joe said the new camo is a universal pattern wearable in any environment, whether tree stand hunting, spot-and-stalk, or western hunts. 33:45 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Joe said ASIO’s purchase order for the year was split about 60% original Raptor pattern and 40% new pattern to test demand. 33:55 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles

asio-gear (8 of 12)

• Joe said most new ASIO products will be in stock by the end of July, with preorders shipping in time for hunting season. 35:52 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Joe announced new non-insulated rubber boots in both colors, made to feel almost like wearing a tennis shoe. 37:10 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Joe announced a new puffy vest coming to the ASIO lineup. 37:45 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Joe recounted that Terry, one of ASIO’s first puffy jacket owners, didn’t realize the jacket was reversible with black on the inside until Joe pointed it out at a trade show. 38:40 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Joe reports that ASIO Gear had its best Black Friday sale ever this year. 36:30 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!
• Joe credits Terry and Don’s promotion for helping ASIO Gear have its best November ever. 37:13 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!
• Joe jokingly plugs ASIO Gear’s discount code, ‘Chasing Giants twenties,’ during the show. 13:41 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!
• Joe explained that ASIO 2.0 uses heat-transfer printed high-definition camo on deer-facing panels of the garment for maximum visual quality. 18:34 — Episode #181 - What is new with Asio Gear?

attention-to-detail

• Joe said the nineteen-day leopard hunt reminded him of the attention-to-detail wisdom Don, Bobby, and other veteran hunters have always preached. 19:12 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles

bobby-worthington

• Joe Miles describes Bobby as an eight-time world champion traditional archery shooter. 11:29 — Episode 232 - We are starting a TV Show!

book

• Joe Miles announces Bobby’s new book will go on presale on the ASIO Gear website as both a limited-edition leather-bound and hardcover coffee-table edition. 12:09 — Episode 232 - We are starting a TV Show!

bow-hunting

• Joe says that after more than thirty-five years of bow hunting, this was the best two days of hunting he’s ever had. 18:04 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!

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

camo

• Joe Miles recounted watching a great horned owl vanish into a tree while walking to his stand, an encounter that later inspired ASIO Gear’s camo pattern. 5:39 — Episode #110 - Double Episode live from Master Class - Al Foster gives great advise

chasing-giants-tv

• Joe says he and cameraman Andrew captured good footage from the Mexico hunt that will appear on Chasing Giants TV. 16:19 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!

deer-vision

• Joe Miles said research he commissioned found that squirrels and white-tailed deer share the exact same dichromatic vision. 6:17 — Episode #110 - Double Episode live from Master Class - Al Foster gives great advise
• Joe Miles claims squirrels and whitetail deer share dichromatic eyesight, seeing the world completely differently than humans do, which shaped ASIO’s camo design. 9:16 — EPISODE #107 - Don Knows How To Fire Up Southern Folks!

food-plot

• Joe said Dixie Dozen has had a ton of success in South Carolina, and he has spread the product to hunting buddies there. 56:11 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Joe said the landowner of the plantation he hunts insists on Dixie Dozen being planted every year because turkeys hammer it during spring turkey season. 56:58 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles

hunting-philosophy

• Joe said everyone’s hunting method is just ‘a way,’ not the only way, and anyone claiming their method works everywhere is being shortsighted. 28:20 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• 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 — Episode #154 - Dogs Running Loose on Don’s Farm. HE IS NOT HAPPY!

hunting-plan

• Joe Miles plans to hunt South Carolina first, then Alberta, then Kentucky as part of his fall hunting circuit. 61:37 — Episode 232 - We are starting a TV Show!
• Joe Miles plans to hunt Texas and Kansas for the rut, with Ohio as a real possibility. 61:55 — Episode 232 - We are starting a TV Show!
• Joe Miles plans to end his hunting circuit in Mexico at the end of the year. 62:23 — Episode 232 - We are starting a TV Show!

leopard-hunt

• Joe killed the leopard on night 19 of a twenty-one day hunt after sleeping in a blind. 15:53 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Joe described a mistake where they hung a bait too low, allowing a hyena to rip it from the tree and haul it off. 16:31 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Joe said a mistakenly low-hung trail camera caused the leopard to sense it and flee before they could hunt him there. 16:56 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Joe said his hot seven-millimeter wildcat round with heavy hydrostatic shock dropped the leopard instantly on the shot. 18:58 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles

seminar

• Joe Miles announced his Bobby Worthington seminar will run two sessions in March, starting the 8th and the 15th. 51:46 — Episode #202 - Strange Sponsorship Requests with Joe Miles
• Joe Miles said only about three spots remain for the seminar and interested hunters can email him directly for details. 52:23 — Episode #202 - Strange Sponsorship Requests with Joe Miles

whitetail-hunting

• Joe argued that big whitetails in different environments remain some of the hardest hunting in the world. 23:34 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Joe said no outfitter he knows of can guarantee a five-year-old whitetail buck no matter how much money is paid. 24:31 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles

Questions they asked

• Joe asked whether Don said the buck was a 180-inch eight-point, four-by-four. 9:46 — Episode #181 - What is new with Asio Gear?
• 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 — Episode #154 - Dogs Running Loose on Don’s Farm. HE IS NOT HAPPY!
• Joe Miles asked Don whether mapping soybean production over Pope and Young record book buck locations shows they’re nearly identical. 34:34 — Episode #110 - Double Episode live from Master Class - Al Foster gives great advise

Questions they answered

• Terry asked Joe whether he knew Chris Yates shot his leopard within a couple days of when Joe shot his.
  Joe said Chris Yates messaged him on Facebook that he was also hunting there around the same time. 2:13 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Terry asked where else listeners could find Joe’s content beyond Chasing Giants and Mission Whitetail.
  Joe said he most recently appeared on the Truths for the Stand podcast hosted by Clint Campbell. 2:49 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Terry asked Joe what he had going on so far with his trail cameras.
  Joe said his bow season opens August 15, which is when trail camera focus fully kicks in. 8:03 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Terry asked Joe why, from a business perspective, ASIO was launching a new camo pattern after building the market’s top-selling one.
  Joe clarified he isn’t replacing the Raptor pattern, but adding a second, universal pattern alongside it. 30:46 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Terry asked Don and Joe to share the scariest moment of their hunting careers.
  Joe described a wounded elephant bull charging him in Africa, forcing a close-range shot at about eight steps. 42:53 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Terry jokingly asked Joe if he had ever shot anything with a blow gun.
  Joe joked that his brother was the only thing he’s ever shot with a blow gun. 47:47 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Terry asked Joe if he had tried Mike’s Mighty Micro yet on his wife’s flowers or backyard veggies.
  Joe said he doesn’t have a garden, so he hasn’t gotten any Mike’s Mighty Micro yet. 47:59 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Terry asked Joe if he had tried Mike’s Mighty Micro yet on his wife’s flowers or backyard veggies.
  Joe added that he does have a few flower beds. 48:07 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Terry asked Joe what his biggest property prep is, besides scouting, ahead of the August swamp season in South Carolina.
  Joe said planting Dixie Dozen has been very successful for him and his hunting buddies in South Carolina. 56:11 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
• Terry asks whether the rut has started yet in Mexico given how far south they are.
  Joe says it’s classic pre-rut, comparable to late October up north, with scraping, rubbing, and posturing but no chasing yet. 10:53 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!
• Terry asks whether they’re seeing unusually high deer numbers or simply higher quality bucks on this Mexico hunt.
  Joe says the ranch has a well-balanced age structure, with four-, five-, and six-year-old bucks visible in any given sit, calling it ‘Disney World.’ 12:25 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!
• Terry asks what the Mexico terrain looks like, wondering if it’s desert, cactus country, or hilly.
  Joe describes the terrain as extremely flat brush country with a few drainages and no trees or bushes over five feet tall. 12:40 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!
• Terry asks whether they hunt from tripods or shooting houses in Mexico.
  Joe says they hunt from box-style shooting houses, similar to 360 blinds. 12:58 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!
• Terry asks what other animals besides whitetail deer they’re seeing on the Mexico ranch.
  Joe says they’ve seen hogs and javelinas, describing javelinas as small, ferocious critters native to the region. 14:24 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!
• Terry asks where in Mexico Joe is hunting and how far south of Texas that is.
  Joe says they cross the border near Laredo and hunt just south of Texas’s Golden Triangle region (McAllen, Laredo, Eagle Pass). 15:50 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!
• Terry asks whether killing his South Carolina buck felt like a weight lifting off after so much pressure chasing one deer.
  Joe says he wouldn’t call it the weight of the world coming off. 21:59 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!
• Terry asks whether killing his South Carolina buck felt like a weight lifting off after so much pressure chasing one deer.
  Joe adds that killing a buck is great but isn’t necessary for him to consider a season successful. 24:14 — Episode #251 - Update on Don & Joe Miles Kills 2 Giant Mexico Bucks!
• Terry asks Joe whether he’s noticed anything particular about how whitetails adapt to different landscapes and conditions.
  Joe says that even though the swamp he hunts near the Congaree River floods three or four times a year, the deer always come back. 57:22 — Episode 232 - We are starting a TV Show!
• Tyler Gehrig from Danville, Kansas asked whether Don and Joe would change their target buck size if out-of-state hunters and bait piles degraded deer quality on his property.
  Joe noted Kansas’s DNR is considering banning all baiting statewide, which he said he’d welcome. 42:03 — Episode #181 - What is new with Asio Gear?
• Tyler Gehrig from Danville, Kansas asked whether Don and Joe would change their target buck size if out-of-state hunters and bait piles degraded deer quality on his property.
  Joe added that eliminating baiting, while keeping post-season supplemental feeding, would improve deer herds a lot. 42:32 — Episode #181 - What is new with Asio Gear?
• Jeff Sparks asked how Joe, a former moon guide owner, actually uses the red moon given he hunts almost every week.
  Joe explained hunting pressure matters most, then weather, and then the moon, which he says can have an impact based on his anecdotal experience. 50:45 — Episode #181 - What is new with Asio Gear?
• Justin from Wild Rose, Wisconsin asked Don and Terry how to guesstimate a buck’s age without prior camera history.
  Joe added that hunters should shoot whatever buck matches their own priorities, regardless of what others think about its age. 62:23 — Episode #181 - What is new with Asio Gear?
• Garrett Stoops asked whether getting every buck on one trail camera requires an inside corner placement, a rope scrape, or a mineral site.
  Joe added it depends on the property’s size and layout, citing his sprawling South Carolina lease versus a small fenced Illinois tract. 71:40 — Episode #181 - What is new with Asio Gear?
• Don asks Joe whether he started his season in his home state of South Carolina back in August.
  Joe confirms South Carolina’s season opened August 15, one of the earliest in the country. 10:53 — Episode #154 - Dogs Running Loose on Don’s Farm. HE IS NOT HAPPY!
• Terry asked Joe Miles, who hunts all over the country, whether he has insights on finding big deer beyond trail cameras.
  Joe Miles said there are only three ways to locate a big buck: a trail camera photo, seeing him in person, or human intelligence, calling the last the least reliable. 24:58 — Episode #110 - Double Episode live from Master Class - Al Foster gives great advise
• An audience member asks Don and Joe whether long-term use of deer minerals actually helps antler growth and is worth the cost.
  Joe says on one farm run with mineral for five to seven years, their top-end buck grew from about 120 inches to the upper 130s and low 140s. 21:12 — EPISODE #107 - Don Knows How To Fire Up Southern Folks!
• Sean from Maryland asks how the hosts balance eagerly wanting to hunt against holding off when the wind or conditions aren’t right for a target buck.
  Joe says the discipline is to stay out of a mature buck’s one killable spot when the wind is wrong for days in a row, even during peak November. 31:28 — EPISODE #107 - Don Knows How To Fire Up Southern Folks!
• David Adams asks how to hunt a buck he’s watched on camera for three years, active around 5 AM and likely bedding in an unhunted 80-acre cutover.
  Joe agrees bedding access is critical — if the hunter’s cutover sanctuary is on his own property, he can still kill the buck despite nocturnal pressure elsewhere. 45:38 — EPISODE #107 - Don Knows How To Fire Up Southern Folks!
• An audience member with only rifle access to a target buck’s bedding area asks the panel whether he should take up rifle hunting for that deer.
  Joe says hunting shouldn’t be about competition between hunters using different methods — the real competition is with the animal itself. 39:58 — EPISODE #107 - Don Knows How To Fire Up Southern Folks!
• An audience member asks Joe whether Midwest or Southeast deer are harder to hunt.
  Joe says that from his personal experience, heavy hunting pressure makes Southeastern deer very hard to hunt, tougher than what he’s seen in the Midwest. 54:12 — EPISODE #107 - Don Knows How To Fire Up Southern Folks!

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