As many of you know, I was fortunate enough to take an elk in 2012 and it was an amazing experience. I submitted my photo to a trophy photo contest (any harvest is a trophy in my book) and now I am in the running for $5,000 cash. Here’s the…
Author: <span>Albert Quackenbush</span>
Honing a knife by feel is a skill I have yet to perfect. To me it is an art form. I know many who use whet stones very well and others who just utilize a one-stroke sharpener. There is a delicate balance in the angle of your blade to the…
With Spring right around the corner that can only mean one thing for California hunters – time to get ready for turkey season! The lottery for turkey hunts at Sutherland are being held at San Vicente Reservoir on February 23rd, 2013 at 8:30 a.m. (Schedule of events at the end…
Making resolutions isn’t in my nature or vocabulary. Instead, I make a realistic set of goals in the hope I have enough drive to accomplish them all within the year. 2013 will be full of family outings, writing for PSE Archery, and for hunting and fishing. I shared the results…
My most recent blog entry for PSE Archery: Riding the pine. Sitting the bench. Waiting your turn. Everyone has their own way of saying it and no matter which way you look at it, well, it’s never as fun as actually playing. For the past couple of weeks it has…
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…
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