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Team Camp Wild Girls
Sponsored by CampWildGirls.com
Team Camp Wild Girls consists of Amy Sharp and Candy Grubisic, from Washburn and Ashland, WI. Camp Wild Girls is an online hunting and fishing resource for Women of the Wild. Find out a little more about these gals below and be sure to support them, Camp WIld Girls, and their efforts on Battle Scraps this season by connecting with them on their Team Facebook fan page.
Amy Sharp
Amy, 42 years young, has been married for 16 years to Joe, an avid rifle and bow hunter. Joe, taught her oldest son, Scott, the ropes of hunting growing up and now their daughter who is 10 has an interest in hunting and has been tagging along since she could walk. Her son who is 6 doesn’t have much of an interest in hunting as of yet but does love to be outside and tag along with dad also. Plus he has a pretty cool little bow.
Amy was introduced to target shooting with a recurve last summer by Hawk and Stacey Huston at Team Huntress and loved it! When early bow season came around a friend of hers, Terri Lee, was competing on the Battle of the Bow. She saw her excitement through the season and it encouraged her to try bow hunting.
She bought a recurve at a local pawn shop and had been practicing. She was shooting confidently so finally she decided to head out to sit at the infamous apple tree stand without telling a soul. She saw many deer her first season (2009) and that was fascinating alone.
That winter she watched the Battle of the Bow and discussed throughout the spring and summer about trying out for the show with another friend, Candy, to be an all women’s team. Her and husband, Joe, were also planning to do some hunting and filming and team up with a friend of theirs to do an online show. Since not making the Sportsman Channel show, Amy found new life in Battle Scraps.
So here she is this season with her first shot and first ever buck on the ground, an 8 pointer, the trail camera gets a picture of the shot, and she has it all on film! How awesome it that!
Candy Grubisic
Candy Grubisic, 45, wife, mother, grandmother, was born in Flint, MI and moved to Vassar, MI after 8th grade. She graduated from there in 1983 and it was in Vassar that she discovered she enjoyed target shooting and wanted to give deer hunting a try. For various reasons, that never came to fruition. No one in her family hunted, so this wasn’t something that got passed down the way it does in most families. One thing she did love was fishing and at least she got to do plenty of that. "I’ve always enjoyed the outdoors and grew up somewhat of a Tomboy", she recalls.
In 1987, she moved to Ironwood, MI where she got a degree in Commercial and Graphic Arts. Then moved to Ashland, WI in 1992 in search of work, hoping to find a job in her field. It was in Ashland that she met her husband, Rod, of almost 11 years.
"If it weren’t for his enthusiasm after I expressed my interest in purchasing a deer license back in 1998, I may not have ever hunted to this very day" Candy says, "Rod outfitted me with whatever he could find and the following year, 1999, he bought me all of my own gear including my first rifle." That year she took her first buck, a small but respectable 7pt.
They hunt just about everything together now and she shot her first turkey the year they opened it up in their area approx. 5 years ago. It wasn’t until about 3 years ago that they both decided to start bow hunting. She took her first bow buck in 2009, a freak of a fork. I’m a sucker for the freakish and unusual. Unfortunately, her husband works long hours and rarely gets the opportunity to bow hunt during the early season. When he is unable to hunt due to work, "he always tells me he hunts vicariously through me and I am more than happy to oblige".
This will be her first year ever trying to actually film a hunt. It's something her husband and she have been wanting to do for a long time. He had bought a camera arm awhile ago, but still needed the camera and finally made the purchase this season and are ready to rock on Battle Scraps.