Summer 2016

Faust is a moving target. He has a home near Austin, a ranch near El Paso and a
mountain getaway near Pagosa Springs, Colorado. He hunts, fishes, wake surfs, team
ropes, bikes, hikes, snow shoes, skis and “tries to stay in shape.”
He is motivated by his desire for good health and his love of physically demanding
mountain hunting. In the late 1980s, he began his quest to complete the Grand Slam of
North American Wildlife Sheep. It took him 25 years to finish the quest, which included
taking a Desert big horn, Rocky Mountain big horn, Stone sheep and Dall sheep. When
he accomplished the goal in 2012, Faust was entered into the record book, which was
started in the 1950s, as #1718 demonstrating the feat’s rarity.
While he has hunted all over the world, his greatest accomplishment occurred much
closer to home.
“Without a doubt, my greatest accomplishment is raising my two sons who are now 23
and 25,” he said. They moved to Lake Travis before the boys began kindergarten. Faust
coached their baseball and football teams until the boys reached high school.
“Coaching their teams was the greatest time a dad can spend with his sons,” Faust
said. “Of course, teaching them to hunt wasn’t too bad either.”
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