The Wild Initiative

Cody Rich of The Rich Outdoors Podcast joins Sam on Living Country in the City for a Q&A session on elk hunting tips and tactics for your trip to elk camp. In this episode, we cover the excitement and fear surrounding the first hunt, struggles of hunting solo versus with a partner, measuring success and dealing with self-doubt, enjoying the moments that suck because they make the best stories, viewing each hunt as a challenge and test, sacrificing hunting time to podcast, dealing with pressured elk, how long to stay in an area when you’re not finding elk, dealing with an overactive gag reflex, calling skill, strategy and frequency, playing the wind, dealing with scent, packing out, field care of meat, dealing with lions, wolves and bears (oh my), and much more!

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Patricia Gonsalves, Founder and Lead Instructor of Lykopis Archery, Archery Tech, and Trainer for DC’s TV Shows “Arrow”, “Flash” and “Legends of Tomorrow” joins Sam on Living Country in the City to talk about her childhood obsession with archery, training actors and stuntmen, traveling the world to learn from world archers, misconceptions about bow types, teaching the “four disciplines” of archery and characteristics of different traditional or instinctual bows.

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Jim Shockey joins Sam on Living Country in the City to talk about being a born-and-raised hunter, learning to enjoy every aspect of the hunt, his personal record for death threats, combating hate towards hunters, his personal heroes and inspirations for hunting, redefining the media's hateful caricatures of hunters, and what he hopes for his personal legacy.

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Jeremiah Doughty of From Field to Plate joins Sam on Living Country in the City to talk hunting for food, figuring out how to make a great tasting dish from any animal, how field prep and other variables affect the taste of your meat, testicles, creating a tight-knit SoCal hunting community, what’s wrong with the word “gamey” and using every part of the animal from the esophagus to absolutely everything else.

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Jason Feldt of Bowhunter Box Club joins Sam on Living Country in the City to talk about how quickly bowhunting can turn into an obsession, experimenting with different concepts to build a box club catering to bowhunters, cursing himself by passing on an axis doe, fun and unique products you may have never known you wanted and what you get with the box club subscriptions and the VIP Pass-Through Club.

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Tony Burlison of Dark Timber Coffee Co joins Sam on Living Country in the City to talk about giving back to conservation causes, the differences in drinking a quality coffee, their backcountry Ascent Packs, why there’s no such thing as top-shelf instant coffee and naming their newest roast.

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Brenden Labrum and Brady Loveless of Scout to Hunt join Sam on Living Country in the City to talk about the ins-and-outs of Scout to Hunt, their subscription-based advanced online scouting platform and some exciting giveaways they’re running before its launch on August 1, 2017.

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Ben “ShedCrazy” Dettamanti, fitness icon and outdoor business mogul, joins Sam on Living Country in the City to talk about his first experience at Total Archery Challenge, turning shed hunting from a hobby to a full-blown career, meeting hunting industry “celebrities”, how to find good shed spots, outrunning Cam Hanes, the physical aspects of shed hunting and memorializing your hunts through video and journaling.

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Patrick Alvarez, Locke Wheeler, Steven Tatum and Robert Alvarez of Bowhunter Brotherhood as well as a bottle of bourbon join Sam on Living Country in the City. Among other things, we talk about bowfishing, joining the BHB staff, trying new things, chasing drones in a boat, awkward handshakes and being the crazy smelly guy in Starbucks.

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Mike Merrill joins Sam on Living Country in the City to talk about preparing for the hunting season, fitness and motivation to start running, sharing wild game with friends and family, setting up trail cameras, predator management and finding a quality hunting partner.

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