Author: <span>Albert Quackenbush</span>

Increasing Your Odds By Making a Mock Scrape My NY hunting trip write up is coming. Right now it’s just sitting under a pile of ‘I need to do this first’ and photo sessions and some rad design work I am doing for some people. In the meantime, I thought…

Hunter Stands Up For His Rights & Misses Trip I came across this story just a few minutes ago and had to post about it. John Tyner was going on a hunting trip with his father-in-law and TSA decides they are going to give him a pat down on Saturday.…

Back From New York The past week has been full of anticipation and fun. I went back to New York State for my annual deer hunt with my dad and brother. I chose to go during the archery season again this year because I love bowhunting and it was supposed…

What Would You Do? I was recently talking with another hunter about this type of thing and wondered what each of you would do. Scenario: You have scouted up some nice bucks on public land and are now ready for the season. You have picked your spot, a mile in,…

Scouting Success Comes With A Price Last Saturday, I met up with my friend Jeff and his buddy Tony. We had a woman telling us about the deer that were eating her roses and she wanted them gone. Knowing that we couldn’t shoot them from her yard, we did a…

Product Review Follow-up: Gerber Axle 2×3 Headlamp A while back I did a full review on the Gerber Axle 2×3 headlamp. I decided to try and use it a few more times and on the second try the unit wouldn’t even turn on. I had it in the woods with…

No Dice On SoCal Mulies So Far Must…rest…legs… Yepper, that was me on multiple occasions last Saturday. Why? I’ll just say that them there hills are steep, I am out of shape and my pack weighed about 35 lbs. It was brutal on my body, but felt so good after…

Product Review: Havalon Piranta-EDGE Knife (with Blaze Orange Handle) When I was doing all of my hunting on the East Coast I didn’t have to travel very far to get to my stand. Hell, I didn’t have to walk over a quarter-mile to get to a spot. It was easy…

Working For The Weekend Editing video. Thinking about deer hunting. Creating logos. Washing camo and gathering archery gear. Illustrations and editing photos. Planning a Saturday hunt and feeling all ‘antsy in [my] pantsies’ (Great line from Super Troopers). This week has been a roller coaster for my brain. I wanted…

My Mind Is Like Molasses It has been one of those weeks. Lots of work to get done and little time to blog. I am sure we all have those days and I have to say I am thankful for the days I have plenty of work to do. I…