Northwest Whitetails - Mountain Bucks with Troy Pottenger

ElkShape

Dan Staton

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Today we’re dissecting mountain whitetail bucks on public land with Troy Pottenger—a legendary whitetail subject-matter expert with decades of hard-earned experience. Troy breaks down how he prospects for big, cagey mountain bucks, the role trail cameras actually play in his system, and how he identifies and hunts community scrapes in rugged terrain.We dive deep into the topography he looks for, how mature bucks travel through mountainous country, and how to read the landscape to stay one step ahead. Troy also shares an incredible story that highlights just how tough whitetails truly are, along with practical shot-placement advice—how to avoid deflection, where to aim based on stand height, and why he chooses not to use a rangefinder.This episode is packed with real-world mountain whitetail tactics you won’t hear anywhere else. 💢 Discount Codes 💢 BORN PRIMITIVE OUTDOOR - 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE - https://glnk.io/p9vpq/21r PEAX EQUIP - 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE - https://www.peaxequipment.com/ CANVAS CUTTER - 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE - https://bit.ly/MobileElkHunting VORTEX WEAR | 20% Off Code: ELKSHAPE - http://bit.ly/40pIF6R SHEEPFEET | 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE - https://bit.ly/SheepFeet onXhunt ELITE Membership | 20% Off Code: ELKSHAPE - https://bit.ly/ONXHUNT Basekamp Quarter Pad | 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE https://bit.ly/42Xa5mB CrossOver Symmetry | 20% Off Code: ELKSHAPE - http://bit.ly/3LMnVBA Stealth Cam | 20% Off Code (non-cellular): ELKSHAPE20 10% Off Code (cellular) ELKSHAPE 10 - https://bit.ly/3LFRULv MAGVIEW | 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE - http://bit.ly/3nhGmUo MY MEDIC | 10% Off Code: ELKSHAPE - https://bit.ly/3nhRJvV DARK ENERGY | 10% Off CODE: ELKSHAPE - https://bit.ly/3P5x3BY GORUCK | 10% OFF CODE: ELKHUNT - https://glnk.io/ko1wr/staton BLACK RIFLE COFFEE | 20% OFF CODE: ELKSHAPE20 - https://blackriflecoffeecompany.pxf.io/9LnW0E INITIAL ASCENT | 5% OFF CODE: ELKSHAPE - https://initialascent.com/ WILDERNESS ATHLETE | 20% Off Code: ELKSHAPE - https://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=pl&ti=14093&pw=265865&mi=30849&pt=3&pri=26 FOUNDATION OUTDOORS | 20% OFF CODE: ELKSHPAE - https://www.foundation-outdoors.com/?sca_ref=10392320.yNY8hl6qQLCpq 🚨Video Production🚨 A CAM - SONY A1 BODY - https://amzn.to/3wLZLBW B CAM - SONY A7 IV W/KIT LENS - https://amzn.to/3InUGST SONY LONG LENS 70-200MM - https://amzn.to/433SXLW WIRELESS DJI MIC 2 - https://amzn.to/3uYPku5 STUDIO LENS 24-70MM - https://amzn.to/3PbhZD8 DJI DRONE - https://amzn.to/3TqrAZo DJI ACTION 4 - https://amzn.to/49FDPXA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.8	I just feel it like you get me so fired up. Bring that mic as close as you can to you.
0:44.2	You're down a few LBs. And by a few, I mean 20 something. Yep. Yep. Been working on it.
0:51.4	Why? Got to getting old. Got to be able to run the mountains and owe it to my
0:56.7	family, my grandkids. So what's your secret or what's working for you, I should say? You know,
1:02.3	you know, Dan, at 33 years, teaching health and kinesiologists and I always know better,
1:08.1	I just literally got rid of anything in a box or a can,
1:11.3	no processed foods at all.
1:13.1	All sugar is gone.
1:14.5	All the bullshit that kills people out of my diet.
1:18.1	Elk, deer, fresh berries, fruit.
1:22.6	That's it.
1:23.5	What God intended humans to eat.
1:27.1	And I'm doing the omad one meal a day. So how big is this
1:30.5	meal? I can be, I, 2,000 calories sometimes. I really took a deep dive into fasting. I believe it's
1:40.9	biblical. I believe there's something about it. So I really researched fasting,
1:45.1	especially for a guy my age. I'm not recommending this to my son when he's playing college football.
1:50.7	No. Yeah, I'm not saying that. But for me at my age, it has given me more clarity,
1:58.5	really feel like with autophagy cleaning my system, cleaning the cells.
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