BRCC Alberta Bear Hunt Ep. 2: Hard-Earned Victory

In this episode, spearfishing champ and seasoned bowhunter Justin Lee connects with a big ol’ boar, but the defining moment of the whole hunt comes when Caleb Brewer of Stick Sniper Archery makes an incredible shot as the last day of the hunt begins to fade.
“There’s no instant gratification, no like button, there’s no easy win. You have to to earn it,” Brewer says. “And if you don’t train and you don’t prepare then you’re not going to get it. I like that hard-earned victory. There’s nothing easy about hunting, especially for someone like me who’s walking on two carbon-fiber legs - this is some hard, hard shit. And I love it.”
Brewer, a retired Green Beret, served in the U.S. Army for 11 years. In 2015 he was critically injured by an IED in Afghanistan that took both of his legs. His enduring passion for archery began in 2017.
“The incredible amount of work I’ve had to put into this just to be here right now is just insane. Just going through a solid year of my life in rehab and learning how to walk again - my daughter was 1 and we both learned to walk together, which was kinda cool,” Brewer says. “There’s always pain so it’s something I have to just live with.
“But then, I had to overcome my fear of falling, because when you’re on a prosthetic leg and you’re walking, falling is like the scariest thing in the world. Good god, if you come across a 6-inch curb and you’re on prosthetics, it’s the end of the world, it’s like the grand canyon.
“My goal in life is to be so good at walking on prosthetics that the normal issues that bother and plague amputees are non-existent for me. Stairs, curbs, ramps, hills, gravel, all that crap. That is stuff you can train to overcome in the gym. If you have the right mindset you can overcome any of that crap.”
“I decided to give up rifle hunting because I shot a ton of guns in the military, big stuff that goes boom and long-range guns,” Brewer says. “I hunted with a rifle, and it just wasn’t the same anymore. But when I picked up a bow, it just lit a fire in me. Now, I hunt only with a bow.”
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