Chadd Wright

I can't believe it.

I can't believe this is going to be my first elk hunt.

It's going to be rifle.

Now, I'm a big archery guy, too.

When I started hunting whitetails, that was what I did was bow hunt and still bow hunt quite a bit.

But this is a rifle hunt.

My wife a couple years ago bought me that RX-7 with the carbon fiber riser.

I always wanted a bow with a carbon riser because I remember hunting so many hunts in the southeast, whitetail hunts, walking into the stand and your hand just getting so cold carrying that bow around.

They've probably got it mapped out for the next 10 years in advance.

And those parallel limbs, and they're so short and compact.

You know, the old bows we used to shoot back in the day, the old Viper Techs and all that from Hoyt, and Matthews had the old—

SQ2s and Q2s, and they were just long and unwieldy in the stand.

You can make, like you said, 100-yard shots now with a compound bow.

Back then,

I mean, there wasn't nobody shooting them bows at 100 yards.

Because they just weren't tuned, I think, so finely as the bows that we have today.

I mean, that RX-7, man, every time I shoot that bow, it amazes me at how that arrow just flies like a laser beam.

I'm like, good night, man.

you can't even get much energy out of that thing but it's the extra challenge you got to get real close you got to get real close and be real accurate yeah i went i took mine on a mule deer hunt up in uh the wasatch range in utah two years ago and yeah i mean you you got to get within seven to ten yards

of that animal with a longbow.