I was born and raised in northern California and started shooting a bow in 1974 when I was five years old after I found an old wood recurve under a neighbor’s house. I grew up in a hippie family of artists of various mediums. My mother was a vegetarian, but I’d acquired a taste for meat early on, and this only fanned the flames of my interest in hunting I’d somehow discovered my love for woodworking and building things started out about the same time.

Working with the Outdoorsmans optics trade-in program for the past couple of years, I have seen high-end binoculars in every kind of shape imaginable. I loved cutting open a box to see a dusty pair of Swarovskis that had turned a whole new shade of green from some dude’s hand grease. I always knew those binos had some soul, they had probably seen some cool stuff, and there was plenty of life left in them.

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I grew up as the youngest of three siblings around the Seattle area, we grew up in suburban neighborhoods and didn’t get to experience much of the wild outdoors in our daily lives. Sad city parks and brief day trips into tame state and national parks were about all I knew until I joined Boy Scouts at 11 years old.