45th Annual IBA Spring Banquet
March 2-3, 2012
featuring seminar speaker Jack Frost

This years’ Spring Banquet features Tom Hoffman as our keynote speaker along with Jack Frost as a seminar speaker. Both are avid sheep hunters and have exceptional stories to tell from places that some of us never even knew existed. Some IBA members have hunted elk at high altitudes, but I don’t think any have ever been at the altitude that Jack Frost has hunted.

Jack Frost resides in Anchorage, Alaska and has been bowhunting for almost sixty years. He has written numerous magazine articles and also a chapter in the Pope and Young Whitetail Record Book. He also is on the board of directors of the Pope and Young Club. Jack has taken all four species of North American Sheep, and also killed a Pope and Young World Record Alaskan Brown Bear.

Raised in Pennsylvania, he made his first bow kill in 1952 at age 7, and has been shooting a bow ever since. He’s hunted big game exclusively with a bow since 1980. Orthopedic surgery is his occupation and has been practicing in Anchorage since 1973. At least one of every big game species in North America (29) has fallen to his bow and arrow, most of which are in the Pope and Young record book. Africa and Asia have been his target three times each with a bow. Jack is a director of the National Bowhunting Education Foundation and is a master instructor of the IBEP course in Alaska. As Legislative Vice-President of the ABA his hope is to increase bowhunting opportunities and reduce, or minimize, unnecessary regulations.

I shot the Marco Polo in Tajikistan in September 2000. The shot was at 17,000 feet above sea level. The photo was actually taken at 16,680 feet according to my GPS, but he ran down hill after being hit. It was my second hunt for the species. To my knowledge only five Marco Polo rams have been taken by modern bowhunters, and only two of those were at high altitude in Tajikistan. The other three were taken in Kyrgystan. I believe that mine is the largest taken with a bow. I shot it on the eighth day of the hunt. 55 yard shot. Single shot kill. - Jack Frost