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ELKSHAPE Podcast - Cracking the CODE to Public Land OTC Success

ElkShape

Dan Staton

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8618 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dan sits down with Blake Nations, a seasoned Naval veteran, and Nick, a fellow archer and passionate outdoorsman, for a full-length conversation about life, discipline, and the mindset it takes to stay dialed in — both in the mountains and in everyday life. Blake shares powerful insights from his time in the Navy, and how that foundation of service, structure, and sacrifice has shaped the way he approaches training, bowhunting, and being a man of purpose. Alongside him, Nick brings a grounded and relatable voice to the table as they explore topics like motivation, showing up with intention, and the small daily decisions that make or break your goals. Of course, there’s also some elk hunting talk — and the kind of honest reflection you don’t get unless the mics are rolling and the trust is real.   💢 Discount Codes 💢   BORN PRIMITIVE OUTDOOR - 10% Off Code: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ELKSHAPE⁠⁠⁠⁠ PEAX EQUIP - 10% Off Code: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ELKSHAPE⁠⁠⁠⁠ CANVAS CUTTER - 10% Off Code: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ELKSHAPE⁠⁠⁠⁠ WILDERNESS ATHLETE | 20% Off Code: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ELKSHAPE⁠⁠⁠⁠ VORTEX WEAR | 20% Off Code: ⁠⁠⁠⁠elkshape⁠⁠⁠⁠ BLACK OVIS | 10% Off Code: ⁠⁠⁠⁠elkshape⁠⁠⁠⁠ SHEEPFEET | 10% Off Code: ⁠⁠⁠⁠elkshape⁠⁠⁠⁠ onXhunt ELITE Membership | 20% Off Code: ⁠⁠⁠⁠elkshape⁠⁠⁠⁠ Basekamp Quarter Pad | 10% Off Code: ⁠⁠⁠⁠elkshape⁠⁠⁠⁠ CrossOver Symmetry | 20% Off Code: ⁠⁠⁠⁠elkshape⁠⁠⁠⁠ Stealth Cam | 20% Off Code (non-cellular): ⁠⁠⁠⁠ELKSHAPE20⁠⁠⁠⁠ MAGVIEW | 10% Off Code: ⁠⁠⁠⁠elkshape⁠⁠⁠⁠ MY MEDIC | 10% Off Code: ⁠⁠⁠⁠elkshape⁠⁠⁠⁠ DARK ENERGY | 10% Off CODE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ELKSHAPE⁠⁠⁠⁠ GORUCK | LINK TO ⁠⁠⁠⁠SHOP⁠⁠⁠⁠ BLACK RIFLE COFFEE | 20% OFF CODE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ELKSHAPE20⁠⁠⁠⁠   🚨Video Production🚨 A CAM - ⁠⁠⁠⁠SONY A1 BODY⁠⁠⁠⁠ B CAM - ⁠⁠⁠⁠SONY A7 IV W/KIT LENS⁠⁠⁠⁠ SONY ⁠⁠⁠⁠LONG LENS 70-200MM⁠⁠⁠⁠ WIRELESS ⁠⁠⁠⁠DJI MIC 2⁠⁠⁠⁠ STUDIO LENS ⁠⁠⁠⁠24-70MM ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠DJI DRONE ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠DJI ACTION 4⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yeah, something like that. We've come a long way. We've been doing pods for eight years and it's just been, you know, really unique to sit down with so many different people.

0:09.7

Yeah. That's the best part. But it is so saturated. There's so many like podcasts. And so if we're going to just talk about El Cunning, it's kind of like, what can we talk about something else too? You know, obviously I want to talk about El Cunning. I'll never get tired of it. But let me introduce everybody today. So Blake Nations, plural, from Colorado, just south of Denver, what town? Parker. Parker. I want to clarify, though, from Mississippi. Let's put some respect on that. Yes, yes. And then you moved out west, what year?

0:38.1

To 2020.

0:39.3

Not too long ago.

0:40.0

No, not so long ago. I been out there about four years. I went on a turkey hunt in the mountains of South Colorado and saw the Rockies for the first time. I was driving through Kansas on the way back and I said I'll live there within the next 18 months. so I did a lot of praying on it and Lord made it happen.

0:54.0

So yeah.

0:54.7

Did COVID have anything to?

0:56.2

No, man.

0:56.8

It was just after it kind of within the next 18 months. So I did a lot of praying on it and Lord made it happen.

0:54.4

So yeah.

1:12.0

Did COVID have anything to? No, man. It was just after it kind of calmed down was when I started traveling out there for work and then full-time moved out there a little bit after that. And then to your left, my right, is Nick. What's your last name? Murray. And I did not know you two hours ago. But I feel like I know you a lot better already.

1:12.5

Oh, yeah.

1:29.1

So tell us a little about yourself. Okay. So yeah. And bring your mic really close to your. Closer, closer. Yep, closer. Like that. As close as possible. You're, yep. So yeah, I've lived in, uh, eastern Washington my entire life. Um, I live out in Spokane right now. Home feels a little bit more closer towards central Washington though at the moment just because that's where I work. That's where I

1:32.8

kind of built my, you know, my friend network, my social network. And I really like that's kind of

1:38.8

scablands, a sagebrush out there. Always hunted, picked up archery hunting recently. And my own merit, I think the badge, it's going to be kind of,

1:48.2

all I can do this finally is getting that kind of open country,

1:51.5

mule deer that I've been chasing for the last couple years.

1:54.0

And I think that's going to be the big thing.

1:55.9

But yeah, I've been hunting for when I was a youth a lot to kind of a break when life got

2:00.6

a little bit crazy.

2:01.6

Yes.

2:01.9

And back to it.

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