The Most Important Piece of Equipment in a Ground Blind
Tex-Mex Outdoors 06.24.11
Most of you are starting to get ready for a fall hunt out West and you’re most likely will be hunting at a Waterhole, for Antelope, Elk or Mule Deer. Even if your going to be using an Outfitter the first couple of weeks of any of the Big Game mentioned, you will hunt somewhere around a Waterhole.
As most of you are aware our bowhunting Compadres are getting older and most will have that “Dunlop Disease” and there is nothing more painful than sitting in 90 plus degrees white glaring heat on a 5-gallon bucket, or a Chinese Torture 3-legged chair with your gut up under your chin and your “Straddle” all twisted & wadded up and talking in at least three octaves higher than you normally do! You get the picture?
Well after hunting in ground blinds for the past 40 years and sitting on every contraption ever designed, Bob and Kim Schilly have invented the most comfortable chair you could or will ever sit in, it’s called the SITTINGHAWK ORIGINAL ALL TERRAIN CHAIR BY SITTINGHAWK, LLC.
This chair seat pad is covered in either Lost Camo by Mathews (7.5 oz brushed poly, water resistant) my preferrence or the new Mossy Oak Breakup (7 oz 60/40/poly cotton blend) The seat Consists of two pieces of foam, that is 1.5 inch and a 2 inch convoluted. The back is made of 2 inch convoluted foam. With Velcro straps located on the back and seat bottom for frame attachment. The seat height is maintained by adjusting the front and back legs. The longer the legs the higher the seat, the seat also folds up for easy transportation, or can also be used as a shelf for carrying accessories when you are back packing. The front legs telescope which allows you to sit in any terrain by removing and reinserting pins in the aligning holes. The leg angle also allows for minimum sinking in mud, gravel, or sand. By creating more surface area on the ground.
Bottom line,( pun intended) you’re able to sit for long periods of time comfortably without sweating your butt off in hot weather and be very comfortable. If you hunt out of ground blinds for any length of time you owe it to yourself to purchase the best hunting seat in the industry.
By the way here is a Buck I took in late January of 2011 after sitting in a ground blind all day long with my camera man and we were both hunting/filming out of the Sitting Hawk chairs and when the time came to make the shot I was comfortable and just had to turn slightly, draw my bow back and launch a deadly arrow thru the pump house of the old Monarch Buck and watched him drop.
Jim Miller, Host of TEX-MEX OUTDOORS TV SHOW first picked up a Bow and Arrow in 1961 at the age of 13. Jim has been
tipping over critters both great and small ever since. Smitten by the Bow Hunting bug long ago, long before Bow Hunting became popular. Jim
has been involved in the Bow Hunting World in One capacity or another for 47 years.
Long about 1976 having perfected his bow shooting kills, Jim started winning Archer Tournaments. His achievements got the attention of
PRECISION SHOOTING EQUIPMENT and asked Jim to join the PSE Bow Hunting Advisory Staff…..Quite an honor for a Sharecropper’s son
from the Bootheel of Missouri! Over the next five (5) years Jim collected dozens of record book Whitetail Deer, Antelope, Bear, and Mule Deer
along with a number of “Nice Animals”
In 1981 PSE hired Jim to Rep their line of products across a number of Upper Midwest states. Jim was in the thick of the Rep Business for
the next 17 years, eventually forming his own Rep Group (RAM MARKETING) and taking on a number of Top Quality Hunting Lines. During
this time Jim became only the Third man ever to take the Grand Slam of Wild Turkeys with a Bow, Osceola, Eastern, Rio Grande, and Merriam’s.
In 1989 he entered the Video Business Plus managing his Rep Business.
In 1998, Jim took the inevitable Big Step and traveled to Africa for the first time with his ubiquitous Bow, taking a 40 Plus inch Sable, a Superb 57 inch Kudu,
14 inch Bushbuck, Zebra, Impala, Duiker, Steenbok and warthog. In 1998 Jim took 29 Big Game Animals with only 30 arrows, which has got to be
some kind of a Record in itself? 1999, was another Banner year in “Killer” Millers Biography, being selected as a Panel Member for Voting Membership
of the Archery Hall of Fame. Then going on to take the first ever Modern day Afghan Urial Sheep with a Bow, setting the New SCI World Record.
A whirl at Magazine publishing, another successful trip to Africa for more Critters, a Mexico Gould’s Turkey with a Bow. A huge Mexican Nilgai
(Aren’t they hard to even get with a Rifle?) An SCI number 2 Axis Buck, a Huge Aoudad top Five (5) in SCI with a Bow SCI record book Red Deer, Plus countless Whitetail Deer, Antelope, Bear, Mule Deer, Turkey, Elk, Javelin, Wild Hogs, Mountain Lion, Coyotes, Bobcat, Fox, Later…. And we arrive at today.
Jim “Killer’ Miller is a man of experience. He’s taken over 300 animals with a Bow! A feat few Bow Hunters ever equal.
Jim Miller today is the Host and Producer of (TEX-MEX OUTDOORS) TV PROGRAM which air’s weekly , WILL BE AIRING ON THE SPORTSMAN CHANNEL, 2011 AIRING ON THE THIRD AND FOURTH QUARTERS / AIR DATES AND TIMES / SUNDAY @ 1:30 PM / WEDNESDAY @ 2:00 AM / THURSDAY @ 5:30 PM ALL TIMES QUOTED (EDST)
Jim has hunted the hard way all of his life, with a bow and arrows, which is exactly what you might expert from a hard Crabbed Kid raised on a Cotton
Farm in South East Missouri. He knows the Hunting Business inside and out. He’s an honest guy whose word is GOLDEN. If Jim Miller tells you he
Is going to do something you can deposit his work in your Bank Account. He’s a solid Man who can be trusted and in this day of “Fly By Night”
Promoters who comes around with their hand out, asking you to plunk down your hard earned money to help support their TV programs and Hunting
Habits. It’s comforting to know a Real Guy like Jim Miller.
