Learning to hunt as a youth
Sadler tagged with coveted hunting award
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Its official, Byron Sadler is the newest recipient of the coveted SCI World Hunting Award Ring.
I received a phone call and fax from Byron and you could feel the energy and excitement coming through the phone.
For Byron, this has been a long journey spread out over a seven year period with more adventures than most hunters will experience in two lifetimes.
For most, the name Byron Sadler is not familiar; he is not in the mainstream hunting media and for the most part has made the conscious decision to keep it that way. Being that he is now one of three people in the world to achieve such a major hunting achievement it is hard to stay below the radar.
Let me give you a little history about Byron so you can understand the man a little more and appreciate what he has achieved.
Byron was born in 1942 in Greenville. A few years later, his family moved to the small community of Henry's Chapel, which consisted mostly of farms and ranches and lies between Troup and Price, some 25 miles southeast of Tyler.
Growing up on a farm, Byron did what many young boys would do in a rural East Texas at the time. After school and completing his chores, he hit the woods with his friends to fish and hunt. Fishing poles were made from bamboo with cotton strings, bows were made out of limbs and arrow points out of old nails.
He seldom had enough pocket money to buy any more than a couple of shotgun shells at a time. With this type of frugality, you learn how to shoot accurately. If you miss, you might not have meat to eat on the evening dinner table. This was an early lesson of appreciation of all of God's bounty and the value of hard work and perseverance.
Always having the desire to own his own business, the opportunity presented itself in 1976. With $4,000 in hand, he started a company, which he named Industrial Specialists, LLC. Thirty-two years later, he has officially retired from the corporate world, but not from bow hunting, which he began in earnest in 1986.
At the age of 44, with encouragement from friends, he found that bow hunting was the way he wanted to experience the outdoors and this was when his journey began.
I feel the only way to really do this article justice is to let the record speak for itself, so with the help of recent records produced by the Safari Club International records keeping system, I have laid out an itemized list of each of the Slams and different achievements that Byron had to accomplish in order to receive this prestigious award. To learn more about these individual awards, please visit www.safariclub.org.
I think the word 'WOW' pretty much sums it up! Take a moment and think about the hours, days and years spent in the field, the extreme hot and cold, rain and snow, mountain and desert that have been the landscape of this expedition and endurance, desire, persistence, and passion have been the driving force to keep Byron focused on the light at the end of the tunnel.
In conclusion, stay open minded, embrace your fellow hunter whether they shoot a bow or a gun or whether they hunt in their home state or internationally because in these trying times, if we cannot stick together then we may all see this sport that we love so dearly disappear like dust in the wind.
And as I always like to say, hunting is "Our Heritage, Our Passion, Our Decision."
Marcus Clem writes and outdoors column for the Advocate. Contact him at mclem@vicad.com.
BYRON G. SADLER
SCI WORLD HUNTING AWARD RING
REQUIREMENTS
SCI members must have taken 11 SCI Grand Slams and 17 SCI Inner Circles at the Diamond level including the Fourth Pinnacle of Achievement and the Crowning Achievement.
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BYRON G. SADLER
SCI WORLD HUNTING AWARD RING
REQUIREMENTS
SCI members must have taken 11 SCI Grand Slams and 17 SCI Inner Circles at the Diamond level including the Fourth Pinnacle of Achievement and the Crowning Achievement.
Byron has achieved with a Bow:
Fourth Pinnacle of Achievement - 2003
Crowning Achievement - 2007
Grand Slams:
1. Africa Big Five - 2004
2. Dangerous Game of Africa - 2004
3. African 29 - 2003
4. North American 29 - 2007
5. Cats of the World - 2003
6. Bears of the World - 2007
7. North American Wild Sheep -2007
8. North American Elk - 2006
9. North American Caribou - 2007
10. North American Deer - 2007
11. White-tailed Deer of the World - 2006
12. European Deer - 2008
13. Moose of the World - 2007
14. South American Indigenous Animals - 2007
Inner Circles at the Diamond Level:
1. Trophy Animals of Africa - 2008
2. Spiral-horned Antelopes of Africa - 2006
3. Pygmy Antelopes of Africa - 2008
4. Introduced Trophy Animals of North America - 2003
5. Red Deer/Wapiti of the World - 2006
6. Trophy Animals of South America - 2002
7. Trophy Animals of Europe - 2006
8. Ibex of the World - 2006
9. Trophy Animals of Asia - 2007
10. Trophy Animals of the South Pacific - 2003
11. Global Hunting Award - 2006
12. Wild Oxen of the World - 2003
13. Wild Goats of the World - 2003
14. Wild Sheep of the World - 2007
15. Antlered Game of the World - 2006
16. Wild Pigs and Peccaries of the World - 2003
17. Hunting Achievement Award - 2003
18. Top Ten Award - 2002
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