Who is your favorite professional hunter?

Eddie Salter!


I also like Tiffany, Waddell, Will Primos, Stan Potts, Tiffany

ha yeah it doesnt get boring looking at her haha

Waddell, but I do like all the H.S. guys.

I like Mike Waddell and Ted Nugent!!!!!

I am a BIG fan of Jim Shockey cause he mainly uses muzzeloaders and i really like muzzeloaders. He also is the only person who has ever done the ultimate slam with a muzzeloader.

The Ultimate Slam - by Jim Shockey

When a hunter has taken a "Grand Slam", they will have taken one of each of the four different species of wild sheep recognized by the Boone and Crockett Club. When a hunter has hunted for, and taken, one example of every big game animal that can be hunted in North America, they will have taken what is variously called the "North American Slam" or the "North American 30" (the number changes as species are listed or delisted). But when a hunter has taken one of each of the 30 species of big game, that can be hunted in North America, and has taken a trophy class animal of each species, one that qualifies for the appropriate "Record Book", that hunter will have completed the "Ultimate Slam".

The late Basil Bradbury, former editor of Petersen's Hunting, is the only hunter ever, who's managed to take the "Ultimate Slam" with a rifle. Likely his feat will never be matched; Basil took at least one animal of each species that was large enough to qualify for the Boone and Crockett Record book. If I'm not mistaken, the last, his record book whitetail, was taken on his own ranch in Wyoming shortly before he passed away. Only one bow-hunter, Tom Hoffman, has accomplished this same feat for the Pope and Young archery record book.

Basil was a personal hero of mine, a great hunter and I suppose, in a sense, he was a mentor, his accomplishment became my own goal. Only I didn't want to do it with rifle, I wanted to do it with my own firearm of choice, a Knight muzzleloader. A decade ago, I made a choice to hunt the largest bucks, bulls, boars and rams and to try and take one (at least) of each of the North American species of big game. My criteria was that the animal had to be large enough to qualify at or near the top of the Longhunter Society muzzleloading record book.

During the last 10 years, since I made the choice to selectively hunt for those largest animals, I've gone home empty-handed from more hunts than I care to recount (three out of eight hunts last fall). And that's why I turned down the polar bear, a decision that meant paying for another hunt (no small expense) and returning to the God's most forsaken land later the same year to hunt polar bear again.