Ken Perrotte

2 weeks ago | shootingsportsretailer.com | Ken Perrotte

Appeared in print as "Hunting With the New Huron" A couple of minutes can seem like an eternity when sitting in an elevated blind, especially when your scope’s crosshairs are fixed on a big whitetail buck and you’re waiting for legal shooting time to arrive. Sometimes, the extra moments are a blessing, letting you work on slowing your adrenaline-hyped respiration and pounding heart. Deer rarely stay still unless they’re feeding or nervously scanning for danger. Staying focused and on your...

2 months ago | gameandfishmag.com | Ken Perrotte

There may not be any smoke on the water, but Lake Anna is on fire right now. At least that is how Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources fisheries biologist John Odenkirk describes the action in the 13,000-acre impoundment spread across parts of Virginia's Louisa, Orange and Spotsylvania counties. The lake, located about 30 miles southwest of Fredericksburg, is owned by the Dominion Power Company.

2 months ago | fredericksburg.com | Ken Perrotte

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Jan 8, 2025 | ducks.org | Ken Perrotte

Hunters in southern portion of the Atlantic Flyway are getting the type of weather they often dream about but haven’t experienced in recent years. Many northern and midwestern states are frozen and an Arctic blast continues to push down into the Mid-Atlantic region. This means ducks and quality gunning for hunters who enjoy access to choice spots in North Carolina and Virginia.

Jan 6, 2025 | gameandfishmag.com | Ken Perrotte

The wind howled as the sky spit in the eye of any hunter chancing to look aloft. Much is made about waterfowl hunting in extreme weather, but fortunately for Chip Heaps and his buddies, the afternoon hunt last year at Quaker Neck, a finger of land just below Chestertown on Maryland's storied Eastern Shore, was staged from a blind that didn't require a boat. The blind sat at the edge of an impoundment, and the field in front of it was decked out in silhouette goose decoys.