Just got done reading his autobiography, Life at Full Draw. for at least the 10th time. I read it every year before the season. I never get tired of it. I am about to read his Super Slam for the 10th time now. One heck of bowhunter. Never met him, but from his book, he's a good guy it seems. In my opinion, he's the best of this generation.. What do yall read hunting wise?
The best archer money could buy ! If I was rich and had $ backing I could shoot a lot of trophys also !
I read Mark Kenyon's That Wild Country over the summer. I have read most of Rinella's books, Cameron Hane's Hunt Backcountry, Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac, David Petersen's The Hunters Heart, Eberheart's Hunting Pressured Whitetails. There are probably a few more I am forgetting. I have a couple on my nightstand that I have not started yet.
I hear people say that a lot. And some of that could be true. However, there is also a ton of skill involved I believe that Chuck has that better than most. Chuck is by far not rich. He had to finance most of those hunts, many more than once. As did Tom Miranda. There was/is no free ticket to a super slam. Read both of their books and you will find out.
He must have quite the sponsor because he sure wasn’t paying the way by his own pocketbook. He was just a writer/photographer. He was not rich by any means. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
He really had nothing. He talks about it in depth. He would go to the bank and get loans. Bowhunting is not a lucrative gig. Some, very few even make a modest living.
He sure is good at finding and getting archery close to big bulls. I've read a few articles from him. He hated calling. He would just listen for them and then slip in quietly, herd bulls with a pile of cows. He believes that public land big bulls (the age old "they didn't get that way by being stupid") have learned to be call shy mostly, although they will still let out a challenge bugle on occasion when another bull sounds off nearby. He has stated that he sees herd bulls simply push their cows away from any calling they hear and have learned to simply go the other way. I've seen this several times, we hunt an area that sees quite a bit of pressure. Not just hunters, people camp nearby and ride atv's all spring and summer long. It is also being logged most every summer in one area or another. One morning my hunting partner and I walked up on several cows feeding in a clear cut and there was a pretty darn nice bull for public land with them. They hadn't seen us and the wind was in our favor. My partner set up inside the edge of the timber and I dropped back about 100 yards to call. I let out some soft cow calls in an attempt to make the bull think a cow had strayed, to hopefully pull him over within range of my partner. I couldn't see anything, but when I called the bull let out a chuckle. Then nothing. About 5 minutes later my partner came walking out to signal to me. He said when I called the bull chuckled back and then immediately rounded up the cows and pushed them into the timber and over a ridge. We could get him to respond when we called, but there was no way he was going to come to the "cow" he was hearing, instead he would just chuckle to try to get the cow to come to him. Good bulls on public just have to be hunted differently and Chuck is pretty darn good at it.
