Ken Perrotte
Writer, editor and photographer, with more than 2,400 published outdoors, travel and wild game cooking articles. Recipient of more than 100 writing, photography, website design and management (outdoors industry related) awards, including the National Wild Turkey Federation's Tom Kelly Communicator of the Year Award for 2023. Articles have appeared in the USA Today's Hunt & Fish, GoEscape and Veterans Affairs magazines, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Sport Fishing, Salt Water Sportsman, The Hunting Wire, Recoil, Game & Fish, Concealment, Shooting Industry, Fishing Tackle Retailer, Virginia Wildlife, Turkey Country/Call, Ducks Unlimited, Military Officer, the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, Richmond Times Dispatch, Roanoke Times, Whitetails Unlimited and CrappieNow. Others include Safari Club International's Safari magazine, the Military Times Media Group's publications, Blue Ridge Country, North American Hunter, Mule Deer, Whitetail Times and more.
2021/2022 President of the Association of Great Lakes Outdoors Writers. Active member of the Professional Outdoor Media Association. Past three-time board member of the Southeastern Outdoors Press Association.
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ABOUT KEN PERROTTE
Thanks for checking in. This "weblog" is something of a clearinghouse where we offer original content and expanded, additional value added (more pics, videos and narrative) of selected articles that have run in print publications. I'm very proud that the site is a five-time consecutive winner of the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association's (sponsored by Realtree) Best Website award and the 2021 and 2023 winner of the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers "Best Website" competition.
I hope you love and value the outdoors, travel, great food and drink, and the people you meet during these pursuits, as much as I do. In many ways, it's my own embodiment of the "pursuit of happiness" America's Founding Fathers envisioned.
I grew up in northern Vermont, but traveled the country, and much of the world, over nearly 35 years serving in our Department of Defense, first in the active duty Air Force and then as a civilian employee of the Air Force, Army and a Defense Agency.
Virginia’s abundant opportunities gave me reason to settle. Mountains, Piedmont forests, beautiful rivers, rolling farmland, the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean -- all within a couple hours in every direction.
My military years were spent in strategic planning and public affairs, honing skills in writing, editing and working with the media and business and government leaders at all levels. Outdoors communications always beckoned. After some 20 years of freelance writing for dozens of publications, including Fredericksburg, Virginia's daily newspaper, The Free Lance-Star, I created this site. I'm blessed, also, to be currently serving as the National Wild Turkey Federation's Conservation Field Editor, the South Atlantic Flyway Migration Alert Editor for Ducks Unlimited, and a regular contributor to USA Today's family of magazine products, plus Game & Fish magazines and Outdoor Life. In recent years, I also regularly wrote articles for The Hunting Wire, Field and Stream and Saltwater Sportsman, and was a Contributing Editor for Shooting Industry magazine.
We once had a small vineyard and made lots of labor-intensive and occasionally drinkable wine. Today, I prefer sampling local wines, craft brews, small batch spirits. Many wild game recipes on the "Recipes" page will have recommended wine pairings. For more than a decade, my wife Maria and I were the wild game cooking columnists for Virginia Wildlife magazine. A 13-video wild game recipe series was published/aired in partnership with The Hunting Wire. It's contained in this weblog.
Our AKC Junior Hunter-rated Boykin spaniel named Jameson - yup, after the Irish whiskey loves to fetch ducks, doves and other upland birds. Time sure does fly. See more on him on the "Young Guns" page, including some fun with a first-time chukar hunt and a cool piece with a GoPro on his back. Thanks again, my friends!
