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Joe Rogan Experience #2059 - Adam Greentree

Adam Greentree is an Australian bowhunter, photographer, and outdoorsman.https://www.instagram.com/adam.greentree

Adam GreentreeguestJoe Roganhost
Jun 26, 20242h 43mWatch on YouTube ↗

At a glance

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Bowhunting, Survival, and Sanity: Adam Greentree’s Frontier Mindset Unpacked

  1. Joe Rogan and Australian bowhunter Adam Greentree dive into ultra-hard backcountry hunting, predator management, and the mental game behind pushing physical limits in the wilderness.
  2. Greentree recounts recent 26–30-day solo elk hunts in Colorado, close calls with injury and exhaustion, and earlier near-death episodes in New Zealand’s mountains and crocodile-infested Northern Australia.
  3. They contrast American and Australian wildlife policy, from wolf reintroduction and grizzly management to Australia’s mass aerial culling of deer and strict meat-import laws.
  4. The conversation broadens into modern society’s fragility—COVID policy, homelessness, pharmaceutical power, and the importance of purpose, hard challenges, and self-reliance for mental health.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Hard hunts can be more about self-discovery than killing an animal.

Greentree frames 30-day solo elk hunts as “vision quests,” where breaking himself down, accepting failure, and enduring hardship is the real goal, with a bull elk almost a byproduct of the process.

Wildlife management needs balance, not ideology.

They argue that predators like wolves, grizzlies, and crocodiles must be managed alongside healthy prey populations and human safety; purely protectionist or purely eradication approaches both create new problems.

Policy decisions can massively waste natural resources.

Australia’s practice of helicopter-shooting thousands of deer and leaving them to rot, while ignoring their value as high-quality protein, is held up as an example of ideology overriding rational resource use.

Archery success hinges more on system consistency than any one “magic” component.

Greentree emphasizes a durable, repeatable setup—solid two-blade fixed broadheads, heavy arrows, simple wrist releases—over constantly chasing gear trends, especially when hunting big-boned game like buffalo.

Survival in extreme environments requires both preparation and psychological composure.

His New Zealand glacier fall story shows that gear (GPS SOS, shelter, basic fire plan) matters, but the decisive factor was refusing to mentally quit, reassessing, and forcing himself to take rational action while hypothermic.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

I'm not really here to kill a bull. I'm here for the whole package.

— Adam Greentree

Every time you're doing it, you're getting an education.

— Joe Rogan

I hate being labeled as a hunter. We're just human—and I really do think hunting's a big part of being a human.

— Adam Greentree

You do stupid stuff enough and your time comes up.

— Adam Greentree

Most men live lives of quiet desperation. You don’t want to be one of them.

— Joe Rogan

Extreme backcountry elk bowhunting in Colorado and the evolving hunting pressurePredator management: wolves, grizzlies, crocodiles, dingoes, and human–wildlife conflictAustralian hunting culture, feral animal policy, and mass helicopter cullsGear, archery setups, and the fixed-blade vs mechanical broadhead debateNear-death survival stories in New Zealand’s alpine terrain and Australian outbackAncient Aboriginal rock art, lost languages, and possible depictions of unknown creaturesSocietal decay: COVID policies, homelessness, pharma influence, and finding purpose through hard pursuits

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