John McAdams

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524 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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TAKING AIM · How a Deployed Soldier Built a Big Game Hunting Empire From Scratch · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

And I had the podcast was going strong and everything.

And so I leaned into the things that were going well.

And then I really started leaning into YouTube at that point.

And I've kind of weathered the storm and righted the ship.

2020 and COVID was also just wild from a business standpoint as well.

One of the things that I kind of referenced it briefly earlier is that I run a hunting booking agency as well, where I set up hunts for people in Africa with some partners of mine.

And as you can imagine, man, that just went down to nothing in all of 2020.

But everything else I was doing just went bananas as everybody was buying guns and doing all of that stuff over here.

And then so luckily I had those things to lean on when the booking agency went the other way.

And then the booking agency was doing a lot better when other things were kind of slow.

Yeah, I definitely think so.

And I've gotten, I've done, this has been a lot of hard work and everything along the line too, but I'll also tell you there's been some lucky breaks in here as well that I've taken advantage of.

I definitely think so.

There's the saying that luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

COVID was bad in many ways for my business, but very good in other ways too.

There's a guy, maybe you're familiar with him, maybe you're not, but his name is Kevin Robertson.

He is a

He was South African, lived in Zimbabwe for a long time, was a professional hunter and a veterinarian in Zimbabwe and then later other places when he had to leave Zimbabwe.

But he ended up leveraging his skills as a veterinarian and a hunter, and he wrote a book called The Perfect Shot.

This is the perfect shot, too.

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