Author: <span>Albert Quackenbush</span>

Are you smarter than a pig? Am I? You wouldn’t think so by the results of last weekend. Brett and I finally got out after some public land pigs with our buddy Chris, and it was an interesting morning in the woods. In fact, it was a very early morning…

Safety, planning, and survival are terms we hear and see all over these days. Survival is a major one. Have you thought about surviving ‘the big one’ or a catastrophic event? Would you have enough supplies for you and your family to survive? I am going to focus on survival…

Today’s post was written by the folks at Warne Scope Mounts. They have graciously allowed me to repost this blog entry. As I begin my 2016 hunt planning, I have decided on a new rifle build. More to come on that later. With that, I will be adding a new…

Years ago, my dad showed me how much fun shooting a long bow could be. Some of my favorite memories of early archery are of him stringing my bow and allowing my brother and I to fling arrows at straw bales. My daughter has shown a keen interest for a…

Cold hands will usually make for a miserable hunt. Keeping my hands warm and protected is a priority. In preparation for my Colorado elk hunt last fall, I thought the SealSkinz Sporting Gloves would be a great fit. I tested them, but wanted to utilize them while hunting with a…

Alright, so the headline is misleading. There is no recipe for tag soup as there are a million and one ways to make it. My 2015 California deer season was short-lived and was a great recipe for tag soup. I was able to get out only a few times with…

  As 2015 winds down, a cigar review is in order as I have just finished off my last offering from Famous Smokes. This time I was sent the AVO Heritage Toro to review and this time I changed things up a bit. I immediately placed them in my humidor…

My doe taken during the 2015 NY archery season. Please excuse the terrible pose. Filling my freezer was always on my mind, but that wasn’t the reason I went to NY to hunt. While most would just want to fill a tag, I wanted to see my family and hunt…

As hunting season is in full swing, we sometimes forget to sit back and think about everything else around us. You all have probably noticed to reduced frequency of my posts lately. While I would love to attribute it to hunting all the time, it has little to do with…