Keli Van Cleave Buck – WoW
From the Denver Post:
It isn’t easy being pink – unless you’re able to stick a broadhead into a trophy mule deer.
This pink thing has a distinct focal point in the flamboyant personage of Keli Van Cleave. The first thing one notices about Van Cleave, who alternately resides in Superior and a suitcase, is that color. Her company, Pink Outdoors, pretty much says it all about a schtick that starts with a unique pattern of camouflage clothing and continues right down to the shafts of her arrows
“It may sound crazy,” she says of the seeming incongruity of pink camouflage, “but it works because animals are colorblind. Camo is just a breakup.”
Once an observer gets past the color thing, it’s evident Van Cleave is the real outdoor deal. She has taken the largest typical mule deer in velvet ever in Colorado by a woman with a bow. The rack scored 202 1/4.
Of course, she was wearing pink camo at the time. She added, “I’ve shown you can be in the outdoors and still look good.”
Growing up close to nature in Grand County, Van Cleave came by her skills naturally. She began bow- hunting at age 12, in large part because that’s what you do in an outdoor family that didn’t allow television in the house.
“My father had us in the outdoors all the time. I got my hunting genes from my father, but my pink genes from my mother,” she said of what has been a dual path to national attention.
very tacky…….even for a woman
Keli is an amazing woman and a great roll model for young girls everywhere!! Thanks for being you Keli…no matter what people say!!
dont get me wrong its quite an acoplishment
and a dandy buck(just the pink thing)ewww
Great Job, but i believe this Buck deserves some justice. I mean she shot him in some guys back yard, missed twice but since the poor thing was tame she shot him again, not fully in the heart. Role Model? I think not.
A “role model” that’s busy killing bambi is not a great model. I hope “young girls” can think about something better than sitting on a murdered animal with a smile on their face.