I have hunted with Mr. Poppadopolis. I have enjoyed it, he first invited me about 3 years ago. I offered to pay for gas the first couple of times, but he always refused. I think he even bought me lunch a couple times. But, about two years ago I told him that I did not enjoy hunting with, or even being around his hunting partner. I think his hunting partner was threatened by me, he almost always had a condescending attitude and acted like I knew nothing and he was the grand masater. And, he is a bullshitter, always boasting about something. A one-upper, I shoot a coyote on a dead run at 295, and he would say that he had done it many times at much further, if I shot one at 320, he would pipe up that he does it at 400 all the time. I know he claimed a lot of kills that he never made, if he was as good as he tells people, he would be one of the best there is. And, he could not sit still, we would set up at night, pops would start calling, and his calling partner would be fidgeting around making a bunch of noise several minutes into the call. Once in a great while his hunting partner would choose the stand, never on one of those stands did we call in anything. Usually the stand was poorly chosen, with no cover for us, poor wind, into the sun, or something like that.
I know Pops put a ton of effort into finding property to hunt. And, I was with him when he delivered gifts to the family at one of the ranches just before Christmas, he maintained a good relationship with the land owners. I would not even consider asking permission from the land owner to hunt that property, and i sure as [beeep] would not hunt it without him.
