November 21, 2008
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Shanea Evans
Shanea Evans
Shanea’s hunting career was launched when she was five months old riding my backpack while I hunted sagehen and chukar in northern Nevada. Whenever I flushed some birds, she would get excited and jump around, greatly increasing my shell-to-bird ratio.
Her big game hunting experiences began when she was five years old as she followed her dad over hill and dale, never complaining about the weather or the cold. When she turned 11, Shanea passed her hunter safety course with flying colors. Her first big game animal was a 3×3 mule deer she took at a ranged 275 yards with her 7mm-08. She was 12 years old.
At 13, she drew an antelope tag, and took a nice buck on opening morning. The buck scored 78 B&C points.
Her luck in drawing permits continued. She drew a desert sheep tag for Nevada, but when the season rolled around she was recovering from an ACL repair to her left knee. Two months after the operation, the hunt was just a little too much. At age 16, she drew another mule deer tag. The 3×3 buck she shot net-scored 170 inches. At 17, Shanea drew a muzzleloader elk tag.
This time she got a little greedy and would not settle for anything less than a 350-inch bull. We would be on bulls larger than that every day of the season, but getting in muzzleloader range (150 yards) was the tough part, and we did not connect. The summer of ‘07 brought us to South Africa for a three-day plains game hunt with Tsoma Safaries. A new rifle was warranted for the hunt. She got a lightweight Weatherby .270 Magnum and loaded it with Barnes new 130-grain MRX bullets.
She recorded one-shot kills on kudu, zebra, springbuck and blesbuck with the little Weatherby. The trip to South Africa was a life-changing event for the whole family. As I write this, Shanea is now in South Africa attending schooling to become a Professional Hunter. She not only loves to hunt, but also played a lot of basketball. She played on the Pacific Coast championship team when she was 15 years old, and won a state championship title in her sophomore year of high school.
—Shane Evans
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