Cameron Hanes Backcountry Bowhunting

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Anyone have a copy of Cameron Hanes' Backcountry Bowhunting- A Guide To The Wild Side, that they want to sell???? I can't find a copy anywhere online.... Everything is back ordered! Let me know, let's make a deal! ;-) Thanks!
 
Its a great book. I'd sale you mine but I refer back to it quite often. Order it its worth waiting a little while for.

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its a damn good read. Ive read through it every off season the past four years. I do have the Kirt darner collection signed that id be willing to part with. CH is worth the wait on back order.
 
Let me guess what it tells you; the only way to be a successful bow hunter is to run 15 miles a day during your lunch break, shoot for 2 hours, run another 15 before dinner, eat a 36 grain pita with baccon and peanut butter, ignore most of your family obligations, alienate your loved ones during at least one hunt each year while risking your life on a solo trip into a wilderness area. Don't forget the ultra marathons you have to run to prove that you are legit.
 
LAST EDITED ON Feb-20-11 AT 12:05PM (MST)[p]Looks like somebody doesn't care for Cam, LOL! Eastmans website doesn't appear to have anything that Cam was involved in when he was with them from what I can see! I'm wondering if his departure and going out on his own wasn't on very amicable terms!!! Anybody know the scoop on that?
 
I say order it, I have a copy I would be willing to let you borrow. Where you from? Hell maybe if the price is right I would sale it too you, it is even the signed copy.


I'll tell you who it was . . . it was that D@MN Sasquatch!
 
I have a mint condition one with the cd. Have never taken the cd out to use it. Have not read the book, but if you want it, let me know, I can call you and work out the details.
 
Should have posted this about a year a go. I would have given mine to you. I read about quarter of it and then burned it. Burning it was the only way I thought I might get some use out of it, and at that I still got screwed.
 
>Let me guess what it tells
>you; the only way to
>be a successful bow hunter
>is to run 15 miles
>a day during your lunch
>break, shoot for 2 hours,
>run another 15 before dinner,
>eat a 36 grain pita
>with baccon and peanut butter,
>ignore most of your family
>obligations, alienate your loved ones
>during at least one hunt
>each year while risking your
>life on a solo trip
>into a wilderness area. Don't
>forget the ultra marathons you
>have to run to prove
>that you are legit.

Personally, I really enjoyed the book. This post was hilarious, though.
 
Haven't read cameron's book but I can vouch for David Longs - very informative on many aspects.

And workout wise he pretty much says get your ass to the high school and run stairs, probably the most efficient way to get in mountain shape if you live in the flatlands.
 
David Long's book and DVD are great. He has taken an awful lot of great bucks and the last few were right after the started with a bow! I like Cam, but I find it a stretch that the auction site data where the bid is now at $10.50 says its a collectors item!!!
 
>>Let me guess what it tells
>>you; the only way to
>>be a successful bow hunter
>>is to run 15 miles
>>a day during your lunch
>>break, shoot for 2 hours,
>>run another 15 before dinner,
>>eat a 36 grain pita
>>with baccon and peanut butter,
>>ignore most of your family
>>obligations, alienate your loved ones
>>during at least one hunt
>>each year while risking your
>>life on a solo trip
>>into a wilderness area. Don't
>>forget the ultra marathons you
>>have to run to prove
>>that you are legit.
>

That's funny! Cant have my copy. Wait I don't have time to read this post I have to get a run in this afternoon: ) But seriously the Colorado marathon is only 68 days away.

Good luck on the book hunt, its worth it! If you can pick up David Longs as well its also a great book.
 
Both good books. It takes all kinds and everyone has different priorities in life. Don't knock a guy for drive and determination just because he makes some sacrifices. I learned from both books and was inspired by both as well. If I hadn't read Cameron Hanes' book I'd still be hunting out of a drive in camp site and not have had some of the great experiences I have had on my past two back pack trips, both with hunting partners. I agree with the solo comment. Part of it is safety and part of it is just sharing the experience with a buddy.

I don't think its as much fun high-fiving thin air!!!
 
nah, i don't 'knock a guy for drive and determination'...but i might dock a fellow a few points for overindulgent, shameless self promotion; possessing excessive and transparent false modesty; and continuing to perpetuate a bogus 'blue collar/everyman' facade to the face of his gullable and easily impressed public....

and such a fellow would lose the rest of his marginal credibility to the fact that he is an utter corn ball....as an ex-pro athlete, a born and bred mountain hunter from long outfitting lineage i find it impossible to take Hanes seriously

i would imagine that the final insult to those willing to actually pay good money for such garbage is the fact that Extreme Hardcore Rip-So-Hard-Guy's writing ability is just abyssmal, yet his delivery is saturated in a patronizing elitist taint...ha! a real conundrum :)


whomever burned their copy of that sorry rag, well, probably the most practical use of such rubbish...

someone recommended Long's work as a far superior alternative, and that is excellent advice
 
LAST EDITED ON Feb-23-11 AT 10:44AM (MST)[p]Greatwestern---Is it that bad, LOL! I may have to look for the friggin book now after reading some of these negative comments about him because I don't feel that I have seen what you're saying when I watched the Eastmans stuff and then the stuff when he went with RMEF. In those he just seemed like a passionate guy that pushed himself to be the best that he could be. Now several of you have me wondering if I have completely misread the guy! I was really impressed how David Long hunted and what he has taken. Then I was really amazed at how he took up bow hunting and immediately started killing the same type of great animals with that closeup equipment!
 
I liked his book myself. It was not the best but it was a good read. Cam is a killer and there is no way around that!




So do not worry, saying, ?What shall we eat?? or ?What shall we drink?? or ?What shall we wear?? For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:31-36
 
LAST EDITED ON Feb-23-11 AT 05:55PM (MST)[p]GreatWestern. Please do tell us what kind of ex-pro athlete you were. j/w Maybe Brian Bosworth? Ryan Leaf? Jamarcus Russel? Maurice Clarett?
 
LAST EDITED ON Feb-23-11 AT 07:04PM (MST)[p]ha! Good Grief, I shoulda knowed some of the fan boy's feelers would get hurt :)

If anyone chooses to take personal issue with my criticism of an 'outdoor authors' writing...well, i certainly can't help ya there

what i say ain't always pc, but its always my honest opinion, and in this case wasn't aimed at any of you...

but to indulge your mocking inquiries: cycling, field sprinter 1993-2002, 4 seasons in europe....i was suited for the chaos at the final of races that ended in mass sprints; though having such characteristics never helped get me through the days with 4-5 cols and 10-12k vertical ft of climbing in 90 degees, chasing spider monkeys---but at least 75% of bike racing is refining and perfecting the 'art of suffering' anyway ;)

well, i guess cheers and apologies for offending any of you, eh!
 
I don't know, but I read on another site it seems that the book now being harder to find is a result of splitting the sheets with Eastman. I bought the book, read it and sold it. Not taking anything away from the author as a hunter or writer, but the title included the word "bowhunting", not distance running. I felt that if you had bowhunted before, and backpacked overnight before, you did'nt pick up much. But now if you want to read a book that seems like half the book is about his dedication to distance running, then you might like the book.
 
>LAST EDITED ON Feb-23-11
>AT 07:04?PM (MST)
>
>ha! Good Grief, I shoulda knowed
>some of the fan boy's
>feelers would get hurt :)
>
>
>If anyone chooses to take personal
>issue with my criticism of
>an 'outdoor authors' writing...well, i
>certainly can't help ya there
>
>
>what i say ain't always pc,
>but its always my honest
>opinion, and in this case
>wasn't aimed at any of
>you...
>
>but to indulge your mocking inquiries:
>cycling, field sprinter 1993-2002, 4
>seasons in europe....i was suited
>for the chaos at the
>final of races that ended
>in mass sprints; though having
>such characteristics never helped get
>me through the days with
>4-5 cols and 10-12k vertical
>ft of climbing in 90
>degees, chasing spider monkeys---but at
>least 75% of bike racing
>is refining and perfecting the
>'art of suffering' anyway ;)
>
>
>well, i guess cheers and apologies
>for offending any of you,
>eh!

didnt offened me none, I was just curious about what kinds of celebrities called MM home. I'm glad you shared that tid bit now though, I remember watching you on ESPN 8 The Ocho.
 
I read the book, I enjoy anything giving me someone else's perspective on hunting so I kept it.

However, if I accepted his idea of what it took to be an elk hunter I would never step foot in the field. I will never be able to run marathons, let alone ultra marathons and I will never sacrifice my family or that much time to preparation for hunting. I don't care what he says about his family and marriage, that little of time with my wife, and sharing very little of the responsibility of raising those kids, would never fly in my family.

I elk hunt just about every year, with a bow, and have my chances every year, even if I am very overweight and out of shape. I thoroughly enjoy hunting, without the long distance running.
 
celebrities...hatred....terry bradshaw...el Ocho??

that's what you guys are gonna go with, eh? welll...i will say that the might of such scathing rhetoric is formidable indeed! :)

did you really need two edits to get that crushing blow out BH? gettin pretty fancy with it eh?

seriously fellers...that was just painful ;)
 
Please, Great Western, lay off using the words of a scholar! You have to remember some of us are just real estate agents :)



Sit tall in the saddle, hold your head up high, keep your eyes fixed to where the trail meets the sky...
 
You guys need to lay off greatwestern. In post #25 he actually used the word 'taint' and made it sound fancy. Got to give him props for that.

oakbrush
 
" but to indulge your mocking inquiries: cycling, field sprinter 1993-2002, 4 seasons in europe....i was suited for the chaos at the final of races that ended in mass sprints; though having such characteristics never helped get me through the days with 4-5 cols and 10-12k vertical ft of climbing in 90 degees, chasing spider monkeys---but at least 75% of bike racing is refining and perfecting the 'art of suffering' anyway"

is cycling a sport?????

just razzin u great western
 
shoot, sorry for the derail Elkster...but, i think you'll be a-ok without the thing anyhow ;)

and 10-4 Boys...from now on i'll be sure to remember to dumb er down another notch for ya eh! :)
 
I think I hunt and train pretty hard, but I look like a lazy road hunting SOB compared to Cameron. He works HARD and produces results. I loved his book, it motivated me. I used to train and think I was going to be in better shape then pretty much everyone - now I think I am no where near in as good as shape as he is in and I train harder.
 

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