Kathy Etling - Bowhuntings Superbucks: How Some of the Biggest Bucks in North America Were Taken

W riting this book has been a labor of love. Ever since I became a hunter over 40 years ago, Ive been fascinated by bucks with huge racks. I, of course, like most whitetail archers, have never been fortunate enough to take a true whitetail superbuck with my bow, although Ive come very close. Ive had better luck while using my rifle, but then thats why the archers featured within the pages of Bowhuntings Superbucks are not only on a separate plane, theyre truly in a class by themselves: They have done it the hard way!

Flip through the pages of this book and become as intrigued by their stories of cunning and daring and stealth and ingenuity as Ive become. Learndown to the last detailhow each one of them has surmounted the odds to take one, and sometimes more, giant whitetails with truly mind-boggling racks.

Each of these archers may have been thwartedsometimes many timesas he continued plodding onward toward his goal of taking a true whitetail superbuck while using a bow. The one thing all these bowhunters have in common, however, is a reluctance to admit defeat, and an aversion to failure. They kept on keeping on even when it seemed as though everything was conspiring against them.

Within the chapters that follow you will read tales of big bucks and bowhunters that will serve to inspire, motivate, and educate. The reader will be disappointed when our archers fail, but helike theywill thrill when each finally succeeds.

Each chapter reads like a separate big buck hunting adventure. Much of the text has been written in the bowhunters own words, using his descriptions as well as his personal memories of the momentous occasion. This, I hope, has given the book an immediacy that other deer-hunting and bowhunting books have often lacked.

Bowhuntings Superbucks also provides a bowhunter profile at the end of each chapter, where readers can learn all the tricks of that particular trophy archers whitetail-hunting trade. Does he wear Scent-Lok? How high does he place his tree stands? What about ground blinds? Does he rattle? Call? What kind of bow did he use? What sights? These are just a few examples of what youll learn, but theres so much more. Bowhuntings Superbucks lets you peek like never before into the soul, psyche, and equipment closet of the dedicated big-buck archer.

Bowhuntings Superbucks is exceptional for another reason, too: It gives you a chance to simply stand in awe before the unbelievable array of big-buck photographs displayed inside. Never before have so many spectacular big-buck photos been assembled within one book.

Readers, its time sit back in your easy chairs and hold on tight. When you flip open the pages of Bowhuntings Superbucks for the first time, youll be opening the door onto a world that few of us ever have experiencedthe world of the trophy bowhunteras its never been seen before.

Enjoy, and good luck, when the time comes for YOU to head afield after your own bowhunting superbuck.

Kathy Etling