Author: <span>Albert Quackenbush</span>

Growing older for a man usually leads to a quest for either getting a better body or going through a mid-life crisis. I am fighting the ‘closer to 40’ feeling by finely tuning my body and mind. For the past 30 days I have been working out and taking SIX…

Blaze Orange. You wouldn’t believe the amount of blaze orange Brett and I saw last Sunday. We knew we would encounter some, but we must have run into 40 rifle hunters near our spot. It was good and bad. Good to know that if there are that many hunters there…

Hunting the West forces you to become best friends with your optics out of necessity. Covering ground in a short amount of time is imperative.  One of the best ways to do this is with the use of high quality optics. As a Southern California hunter who has to cover…

My gear has been getting a workout this year. So have my legs. I have been practicing, scouting, hiking, and hunting for a couple months and have yet to draw back on a deer. It’s been tough to say the least. Will I let that get me down? Heck no!…

Recently, I shared some hunt success from the East Coast and now it’s about time to share the West Coast version. Some of my hunting buddies have been putting in a great deal of time and effort to kill some deer and pigs this year and have met with great…

For those of you who hunt in dusty terrain, or get an influx of bugs when walking to your hunting setup, you know how difficult breathing can be. On a few recent hunts, I was walking behind my hunting partner and the sand from the trail was billowing into the…

Anyone who gets a chance to chat with me knows how much I love archery, heck I have loved it for decades. While recurves and traditional bows are interesting, I love the mechanics behind compound bows. I love the physics behind the flight of an arrow, and I love talking…