Author: <span>Albert Quackenbush</span>

Attention hunters looking to hunt feral pigs in California!   I am no pig hunting expert, but Ron Gayer and Durwood Hollis are! They will be presenting another wild pig hunting seminar at Bass Pro Shops in Rancho Cucamonga Saturday, January 26. Combined they have decades of hunting experience and…

The end of deer season is always bittersweet for me. Bitter because I know I won’t be deer hunting for many months, but sweet because my knees can recover, I spend more time with my family and I get to sleep a bit more on weekends. This last hunt of…

Image of Ryan Hatfield © The Western Hunter TV. Hunting the West, in a word, is tough. Trying to describe it to my friends back East is difficult to do because most don’t understand it. Think about it. Back East I might hike in 300 yards, hunt from a treestand…

Effective today, January 1, 2013, the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) has become the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). You can also read the press release on their website, but I wanted to share this with my California readers that might see my blog before going…

Resolutions are being made as I write this, but I have never been one for resolutions. No, I am one for setting goals year-round and being realistic about how I approach them. In a future post I will share my goals for 2013, but for now I wanted to reflect…

Recently, I had a young man ask me some questions in his pursuit of writing an outdoor blog. While answering his questions and offering a few tips, I realized that they might be helpful to other aspiring outdoor bloggers. Plus, I had added to this list since our email exchange.…

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It took me five long years to find what I consider my honey hole. I held off hunting it all this year to save it for the late season. Now that the late season was here Brett and I were excited to finally make it out there. The rain was…

My DVR has been yearning to record a new outdoor program for weeks (I think I just heard my wife cheer) and I just found the one that jumped to the top of my viewing list! Western Hunter Magazine and Elk Hunter Magazine today announced the launch of their new…

I received this in my email again today and wanted to pass it on to you SoCal survival junkies! NBC is having their local casting call for the Bear Grylls Adventure Show! If you go try out, good luck to you. If you make it I want to hear all…

A few months back, I was contacted by SOG Specialty Knives & Tools and asked if I was interested in reviewing a couple knives. Being the knife lover and gear review nut that I am I happily said yes. As hunting season approached, my friend Brandon informed me that he…