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Litchfield Author Writes Amazon Bestseller

Kay Johnson  •  September 27, 2019 - Litchfield Independent Review

Litchfield author Gary Oberg has hit the big time. His book “Sidetracks: 40 True Stories of Hunting and Fishing on Paths Less Traveled” has become an Amazon bestseller. It reached the No. 1 spot in the Amazon category of Sports Hunting, Sports Fishing and several others. Oberg’s stories take the reader on adventures from Iowa to Alaska with stops at points in between. If you’re a hunter or an armchair hunter, there’s good news. - click to read article


A tell-all about the real outdoors

Rochester Post Bulletin Newspaper

By John Weiss life@postbulletin.com Dec 2, 2019 

Back maybe 50 years ago when Gary Oberg lived in Rochester, he would meet with buddies at Grandma’s Kitchen for morning coffee. Besides the coffee, the stories would flow, including a lot about hunting and fishing locally as well as in northern Minnesota and Canada. Now, Oberg has turned many of those stories into a book, “Sidetracks: 40 True Stories of Hunting and Fishing on Paths Less Traveled.” ….... t’s getting noticed. It’s getting great reviews from Amazon and “has become an Amazon bestseller in the Sports Hunting and Sports Fishing categories,” according to Oberg's publicist, Joan Holman. It was at one point No. 1 in its category on Amazon, but was down to No. 53 later in November. – click to read article


NEW BOOK by Minnesota Entrepreneur Gary Oberg Shares Lifetime of Fishing & Hunting Adventures 

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“Vivid hunting and fishing tales for weekend warriors.”–Kirkus Reviews

"One of the best new Hunting books for 2020" – BookAuthority

Amazon #1 Bestseller in Sports Fishing & Sports Hunting

(MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA)– Gary Oberg has spent his life on the edge. As an inventor, engineer, and a successful entrepreneur, he’s taken a lot of chances, but he really learned about risk mitigation over a lifetime of pushing the limits outdoors. . 

Despite a busy life as an engineer and developing businesses, Oberg found time over the decades to go on many interesting hunting and fishing expeditions. 

Now, in his retirement, he has compiled 40 of his stories into a new book titled Sidetracks. 

Growing up on a farm in 1940s Minnesota, Oberg learned to appreciate nature and has spent much of his life fishing and hunting throughout North America. 

His book shares the stories he has accumulated over they years, and the lessons they’ve taught him. 

ABOUT THE BOOK –Sidetracks: 40 True Stories of Hunting and Fishing on Paths Less TraveledFrom duck-hunting in the marshes of Minnesota, to fishing the pristine lakes of Ontario, to bagging moose among the jagged peaks of Alaska, Gary Oberg writes about all the compelling characters, all the blessings, and all the curses of living life on the edge—where, “if you’re not living on the edge, you’re takin’ up too much room.” 

His book shares a lifetime of hunting and fishing adventures, and some misadventures, in a series of entertaining true stories and reveals some of the best locations in North America (including Minnesota) where the finest game and the feistiest fish live.


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR–In 1990, Gary Oberg, BME, PE, founded Spectralytics, a company providing high quality laser processing solutions for medical device manufacturing in a store-front type building in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina with two people and two lasers.

In 1999, he moved the company to Dassel, Minnesota. 

In 2012 Spectralytics was purchased by Cretex, and became part of the Cretex Medical family, a family of manufacturing companies offering contract manufacturing of medical devices. 

He says he found ways over the years to get out into nature and named his book Sidetracks because of the chances he took on some of his trips, and in life. 

Oberg grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota’s Douglas County, got an engineering degree from the University of Minnesota, worked for companies such as IBM, Berkley Fishing Tackle Company, and Hutchinson Technology. 

Oberg says Sidetracks is the kind of book you don’t have to read from front to back; you can just pick out chapters here and there if you like. 

He says one of his favorite chapters has to do with a funny experience he had trying to butcher a pig in Rochester, and one of his favorite places to visit has been Alaska where’s he’s hunted moose and fished for halibut.

Sidetracks is available exclusively on Amazon in both eBook and print. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION– Visit the website www.mysidetracks.com for more information and a list of Oberg’s Top 10 Hunting & Fishing Tips, as well as a list of his favorite hunting and fishing locations.

Media Contact: Joan Holman: 612-508-5993 / joan@holman.com


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