Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.

All right, what is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, reporting from our quaint little pseudo studio.

It's a beautiful studio at the Western Hunting Conservation Expo, joined by my very good friend, Mr. Brad Brooks from Argolly.

And today we're going to talk about something, Brad, that I know you are, uh, enjoy doing,

you're passionate about and have some, some tactics that maybe they're not like outside

the box, but you have some preferences or ways that you like to hunt elk, specifically

archery elk.

Yes, sir.

And, uh, man, that's what we're going to cover today.

I think for a lot of folks, that quintessential out west animal, there's a lot of them. But, man,

a lot of people think of archery hunting elk. And there's no question that it is hard. It can be a

multi-year endeavor to finally come home successful.

But that's what we're going to shorten that curve here today, Brad.

Okay.

All right.

Let's do it.

Yeah, I think it's like the thing that especially, like Western hunters and non-Western hunters love to do,

which is hunting elk with a bow or a rifle, but as a guy who loves

mule deer, they're just not as popular. There's something about just the species, whether it's

the bugling, the size, the antlers, whatever it is, but everybody loves hunting elk or the

idea of hunting elk. Exactly. Exactly. I mean, there's, yeah, I mean, and this is a common argument for a lot of folks, you know,

mule deer or elk.

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