This new pack by Badlands, inspired by yours truly, is a backcountry hunters dream. Check it out, give it a go and let me know what you think. Lightweight gear is finally hitting our sport!!!! Gonna help us become the very best bowhunters we can be. Thanks to companies like Badlands!!!! Cam Click Here
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Talk about sweet mountain hunting gear! Under Armour has released a new line of killer gear for the hardcore hunter. This video will explain it better than I could here so click on the link, watch and please let me know what you think. I am pumped. I’ve been the guy, back in the day learning the ropes as a greenhorn in the backcountry, that would have to put on every piece of clothing I owned to try and stay warm. Flannel shirts, cotton hooded sweatshirts, cotton bandana, wool pants over the old standby waffle-patterned -long-handles. You can guess what this equated to….misery for one and for two, not real efficient or successful hunting.
Invariably I would get wet and freeze up top as first, my cotton hood would get wet then wick all that moisture in until my entire torso was soaked. Or I would sweat so much my I’d get wet from the inside out. My wool hunting pants, other than being itchy, they were o.k. until they got wet which didn’t take long. They would still help me retain some warmth, but when wet they also weighed about 3x their original weight meaning I spent most my time pulling them up and working extra hard lugging that extra weight up and down the mountain. Thankfully, those days are over. Here is a photo from the archives…somehow, someway I killed this young bull at the tail end of a 10 day hunt, but was all kinds of miserable doing it. I remember vividly…my cotton shirt was soaked in this photo and my green wool pants were sagging like a gansta rapper’s. It was 1992 and I was hunting the 3rd week of Sept. in Oregon’s Eagle Cap Wilderness and the night I killed this bull temps plunged to 8 degrees. I slept in my sleeping bag with all my clothes on (all my clothes on!)…coat, boots, gloves…everything in a futile attempt to stay warm. My core body temp was so low from the day after day struggle to stay warm, I don’t think I warmed up until being home for a few days. Fun stuff, but necessary as because of those types of experiences no one appreciates gear like UA’s Ridge Reaper more than me. Believe that.
The team UA has working on improving their already awesome and effective clothing line is unsurpassed. I am confident the Ridge Reaper line will help keep guys on the mountain longer, hunting hard and when in the backcountry, Ridge Reaper gear will help the passionate hunter take their game to the next level. What this means is because of UA’s RR release more hunting dreams will be realized.
Are you are Ridge Reaper? Check out this limited edition Ridge Reaper t-shirt. These aren’t for sale but were given out at SHOT Show in Vegas to generate buzz. I’d say it worked…they went like hot cakes.
Win the day.
Cam
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Click on the link below and check out this video diary of my first 100 mile footrace, which took place in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. I did this all in the name of hunting.
Bowhunting the mountains of the west takes dedication….I am not the best bowhunter or the best shot, but I work hard in training and on the hunt. And, while maybe not every time, many times blood & guts effort and a no limit attitude are enough to help me achieve my goals.
Dream bigger, achieve more.
Cam
PS…don’t let the video fool you…I am a good actor. Despite how it looks, I was hurting BIG TIME. Especially running at night, by myself, with no cameras and no running mates. It was pretty lonely and painful out there. All but a memory now.
The greater the sacrifice, the greater the reward. This was my first and I was basically just trying to survive. The next one I will be trying to run for a better time. Sounds good sitting here in my chair anyway.
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CLICK HERE….Man, I have no problem lobbying for a great organization and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is the cream of the crop so far as an outfit protecting big game habitat, conservation and hu…nter’s rights. Show RMEF support by following this link and voting for their TV show, Elk Chronicles, which I serve as host. Now in regard to favorite TV host…not sure what to advise there. The Outdoor Channel has some great TV personalities…way out of my league. I am just a guy who loves to roam the mountains with a heavy pack and my bow. That being said, if you feel inclined to vote for me in the favorite host category…thank you! Honestly, I feel grateful just to be listed among all those talented guys and gals.
Sincerely, Cam
Cameron R. Hanes
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My first bow kill was a spike bull in 1989….my next, a Pope & Young blacktail buck in 1990. Since that time I have been obsessed with bowhunting trophy blacktail. So much so, I wrote a book by the same title, “Bowhunting Trophy Blacktail” sharing what I have learned about the species over the years.
Dreaming of big blacktail is what motivated in the early years of my bowhunting career. The blacktail deer was truthfully my first love. I don’t remember the first girl I kissed, but I do remember arrowing that first big 3×3 out on “Dead End” like it was yesterday. Hit him high and dropped him in his tracks.
In the mid to late 90’s I used a handful of Oregon deer tags on big Eagle Cap mule deer, but I’ve come home so to speak. Focusing on blacktail again here lately and as predicted, loving every second of it. Lots of memories here in this post. This isn’t all the blacktail I’ve arrowed, but this is the best of the lot. Even got lucky on a Boone & Crockett awards book qualifying buck in 2002 I think it was.
Keep hunting hard guys, Cam
