Every single past Legend Award winner has been chosen for their specific contributions. Each has been unique in what set them apart for such status as a legend. Bob Speegle is no different. As a hunter, he is definitely not over the hill, and as a conservationist he seems to be working as hard as ever, and shows no sign of slowing down. When we focus predominantly on his lifelong mountain hunting passion, we easily see why he is worthy of the legend title.
Bob has won practically every major hunting award in the world. To help prove this point, we begin with his being the 1979 Weatherby Award recipient. Many of you were present with us in 2006 when he received the Ovis and in 2007 when he won the Conklin Award. These awards were made possible predominantly because of Bob’s mountain hunting of sheep and goats.
Being an American, Bob naturally began his sheep hunting in North America. His first ram was a Dall taken in 1961. He went on to complete his first Grand Slam in 1969.
That was not enough North American sheep hunting for Bob, and his second Grand Slam came in 1982. Bob continued and completed a third Grand Slam and then, amazingly, switched over to using a bow and arrow at age sixty-five. In 2007, he became only the thirty-first bow hunter to complete an Archery Grand Slam when he arrowed a fine Stone sheep. It took fourteen hunts for him to get those four archery trophies.
Before leaving his North American hunting, we want to mention that several years ago, he completed taking all the huntable big game of North America, now known as the Super Slam. Since Bob switched over to bow hunting, he has become the only person ever to have completed a Super Slam by rifle and a second Super Slam by bow.
Bob Speegle is a tremendously accomplished international big game hunter, and has been for many years, as proven by his 1979 Weatherby Award. Staying with the international mountain animals, his Ovis World Slam was completed in 1972. His Ovis Super 20 was reached in 1984. He has hunted the Capra goats too, and had qualified for the Capra World Slam by 1974. He reached the Capra Super 20 level in 1991. Bob has taken at least one hundred of the world’s Ovis and Capra mountain animals.
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