By Jerry Long, August 3, 2010
Bowhunter and friend Gary Martin harvests the Tule elk turning his Super Slam 28 into the North American 29.
Over time you’ve read about and seen pictures of local Super Slam bowhunter and friend, Gary Martin, here on dv’s Mostly Archery. He called last Friday morning to tell me he’d taken a 6×6 Tule elk via spot and stalk on the second day of his hunt. Gary estimates he may be only the eighth person in the world to complete the North American 29 using a bow.
Gary with his Tule elk.
After years of conservation effort Tule elk hunting was re-opened in 2009. According to Wikipedia Tule elk are a subspecies of elk found only in the grasslands and marshlands of California. Tule are the smallest species of American elk. It is estimated that 500,000 roamed the regions when Europeans first arrived, but by 1895 habitat loss and hunting had reduced their population to only 28. Today it is estimated that the wild population exceeds 4,000.
Gary completed the archery Super Slam in 2008. He is sponsored by Muzzy, Strother, Easton and Vital Bow Gear. He’s been a contributing member of West Allis Bowmen for more than 25 years as well as a lifetime member of the Wisconsin Bowhunters’ Association, a National Bowhunter Education Foundation instructor, a lifetime North American Hunting Club member, a lifetime Foundation for North American Wild Sheep member, a National Rifle Association member and a Grand Slam Club member.
However, unless you knew him and asked him about hunting you’d never know how accomplished a bowhunter he is. He often bowhunts, bowfishes and shoots with us “everyday” bowhunters and Gary has locally mentored future archers for the past eleven years through 4H at our local club, West Allis Bowmen.
happy hunting, dv
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