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The Rich Outdoors

After Action Review: Seasoned Insights from an Unseasoned Elk Hunter

The Rich Outdoors

Cody Rich

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Wilderness, Business, Sports

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, we take a deep dive into elk season with one of our most intriguing guests yet—Nick Popsadora. A prior Marine Corps officer, Nick has immersed himself in the world of archery elk hunting, and his after-action review from this season is nothing short of impressive.
In our conversation, Nick shares his valuable insights, lessons learned, and candid breakdowns of both his mistakes and successes in the field. His journey provides a unique perspective that will resonate with both seasoned and novice elk hunters alike.
Beyond hunting, Nick serves as the Operations Manager for The Station Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Gold Star families in Bozeman. Join us for an enlightening discussion that blends the challenges of elk hunting with the mission of giving back to the community.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

The courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

0:14.0

I can't even make this up.

0:18.0

He starts walking, I draw back, and he's down.

0:21.0

He's right there. This is right there.

0:23.0

This episode is brought to you by the great folks over at onx maps with the most trusted mapping

0:34.2

service you know what's funny I think onx used to be known for public private

0:38.4

mapping like I feel like when I say on x people think oh yeah public private mapping on X is so much more than that and I use this tool

0:47.2

for scouting for planning for hunting and even even on a hunt I mean I could be nowhere near private even on a hunt I am constantly

0:54.8

looking at my on X looking at the map trying to plan my route trying to plan my my

0:59.4

path looking at slope angles I'm looking at at all these things. These tools are so impressive and I think on X has just quietly been adding a ton of really cool features.

1:10.0

One of the features I just kind of found the other day

1:13.6

and it's blowing me away is the weather.

1:16.7

And I just had weather, but they definitely

1:19.3

made it a whole lot better.

1:20.8

And one of the things you can do now is you can check weather per area so like you can just go to your hunt spot right and you can watch the weather it's going to pull the three locations closest to that spot and pull weather.

1:34.3

For me this is huge because I used to like go into the weather app

1:38.6

search the nearest town and then try to pull the weather

1:41.9

whereas now I can literally pull the spot in my hunting area

1:47.0

and I can sit there and watch the forecast so I know

1:50.0

when a snowstorm is going to come in or something,

1:52.0

some big weather change that that's what I'm looking for.

1:55.0

If I'm going to get out, get a big buck or something,

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