Just because I film TV shows doesn’t mean success comes easy; sometimes it never comes at all. Earlier this spring I sat in three ground blinds over the course of five days in Zimbabwe and never drew my bow. My wife spent two days in another blind and never saw an animal. It was no one’s fault. Heavy, unseasonable rains meant the animals simply didn’t have to visit the waterholes.

 

In May I sat 66 1/2 hours in ground blinds before finally scoring on a good black bear on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Patience, persistence and time...that’s what it takes to close the deal, but sometimes that’s not even enough.