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Chris Grassi hunts the Low Country
Pro Staff (Promotional Staff) for Be the Tree & Blood Therapy ODC. Chris Grassi hunts the Low Country. The draw to hunting for me has always been about the journey not the results. Chris Grassi hunts the Low Country. To me the best part has always been after the hunt when everyone gets together and tells their stories from the day amongst God’s greatest creations. I have been hunting for 3 years now. I am a bow Hunter first but will gun hunt when the situation calls for it.
I have been shooting for 9 years. I am self-taught and my passion is white tail deer. I have since added turkey, duck and hog hunting to my yearly trips. I just recently shot my first hog. Lesson learned 2015….Patience…..My dream hunt is a week in Africa. I am also an avid fisherman both salt and freshwater. Chris Grassi hunts the Low Country
I’m pro staff for a couple of different companies
Well, I’m pro staff for a couple of different companies and lately I’ve noticed on Facebook that you’ll see these posts degrading or downplaying the work that pro staffers do and it’s always centered around something along the lines of pro staff stands for promotional not professional. We all understand that as pro staffers. We all understand that we’re not professional hunters. I am by no means a professional hunter. I’m a self-taught guy, I’ve been doing this for five years now and I have so much more to learn. So I would never use the word professional to describe myself as a hunter but I do use the word promotional. Now most people who know pro staffers seem to miss is that most of us don’t just run out and look for every pro staff position that’s available. Chris Grassi hunts the Low Country
“Hey, this is a really great product.”
I pro staff for two companies specifically and I chose those two companies because I’ve used their products, I know they work, and I just want to share and help other people understand how great these products work. And most of the pro staffers that I know feel that same way. They find something that they absolutely love and they want to pass that knowledge on, they want to let people know, “Hey, this is a really great product.” And in a world awash with gimmicks and stuff that you can spend your money on, it never hurts to have that guy that you may know on social media who’s shot a lot of broadheads and he’s come across one that he really likes. Or has used a lot of the scent company’s product lines and he’s come across one that really works. Instead of knocking those guys, I don’t understand why people don’t just take the advice for what it is. It’s not like anybody’s holding a gun to your head and you have to do it the way we do it, or you have to use the products we use.
The other flip side to that coin is, you gotta lot of guys who it’s the mechanical fixed plate argument. You see it everywhere. It’s the speed versus accuracy argument. You see it everywhere. What I don’t understand and the reason I got into hunting, in the beginning, was the camaraderie and the family atmosphere. The campfire atmosphere that hunting brings and it’s a shame to see it turn into this excuse my language, but pissing contest into who’s gear is better, or who does better with this and what’s better and my stuff is better than your stuff and I have a hard time getting a grip on, or getting a grasp on why hunters can’t just accept the fact that just because you don’t use the same things I do and I don’t use the same things this other guy does, it doesn’t make us any less of hunters. And as all hunters know we get enough problems from anti-hunters and everybody else we certainly don’t need to be causing any of our own.
Yeah, patience. That was this year’s this past season’s lesson
Yeah, patience. That was this year’s this past season’s lesson. I was the type of hunter, again I’m pretty new to it but, like I said with the way our deer season is structured the five months that we get to hunt and our very liberal bag limit, I get about 100 sits in the stand in a given season. Which is insane. So I spend a ton of time out there. So I’ve got a crash course on learning. But previous to last season, if I had taken a shot at a deer, I would win, lose or draw, I would automatically get down. I didn’t know enough to stay in the stand. I have a really, really good friend, my buddy Zack I was in the deer stand, I took a shot at a doe and I missed. And he just happened to Facebook message me and I was talking to him and I told him what happened, and I asked him, “Should I stay or should I go?” And I was getting ready, I had my bow hung up, I was getting ready to pack up my gear and he tells me, “Just sit.”
And I sat, and I sat, and I sat, and I sat and an hour went by, a second hour goes by, and I’m getting ready to pack up my gear again and that’s when I hear the crack of a twig and I stop and this beautiful 8-point comes walking out to 10 yards in front of me, turns broadside and stands there. Now had I not sat and exercised some patience even though it was killing me, I never would’ve known that deer was there.
I never would’ve known that deer was there.
I didn’t have him on trail cam, at all, I had no idea he was in my area the first time I ever saw him was the day I shot him. And if it weren’t for patience, and learning to sit and learning to suck it up and you’re cold and you’re tired and your back is aching you want to get down, but if you truly want to have great memories in the woods you gotta stick it out. And I have been exercising patience ever since, I sit there longer, I see way more deer. For the first time in my hunting career I got to experience a little bit of what the rut is like, I’ve mistimed it every year and this year with a little bit of patience and a little bit of research, I managed to see, I didn’t get to shoot a buck during the rut, but I saw a lot of them.
A lot more big deer than I have ever seen in my hunting career. And if it weren’t for learning a little patience, never would’ve happened.
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