Always make sure to avoid the common dangers of eating wild game.
Author: Keith McCafferty
Keith McCafferty
Keith McCafferty has been writing for F&S for 42 years, with many hundreds of articles under his byline. He has been the Health and Safety columnist, the Outdoor Skills columnist, and the Survival columnist, yet none-the-less has managed to get lost in the woods in four different states. Highlights Education McCafferty graduated from Steubenville High School in Ohio. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Zoology from Duke University and a Master’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Michigan. Experience McCafferty’s flair for writing has earned him many awards. He is a two-time National Magazine Awards finalist, for stories in Field & Stream, and winner of the 2003 Robert Traver Award for angling literature. McCafferty is the recipient of the Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award and the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Novel. Two of his novels were chosen as Best Reads by Oprah Winfrey’s “O” magazine. McCafferty has been the featured speaker at the Outdoor Writers of America conference and at Bouchercon, the annual World Mystery conference. He is a veteran of podcasts, television interviews, and book events around the country. In 2022, he will speak at the International Hemingway Society Conference in Cooke City, Wyoming. Interesting Fact McCafferty has always gravitated to the most difficult of outdoor sports—fly fishing for steelhead and tracking elk on public lands. He is a wild-bird rescue person and an amateur herpetologist. Among his most interesting finds are rubber boas in his home state and an Indian python in India. Notable Work
A grand-slam adventure to flyfishing’s best kept secret (until now)
Once you fight your first wild steelhead, you’ll see why anglers say the “tug is the drug”
Why do we push ourselves to the breaking point in the outdoors””and then choose to do it again? Because it’s what we’ve always done
Two brothers question their sanity during an elk hunt in the Crazy Mountains in sub-zero temperatures
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A whitetail hunter’s cheat sheet on the best times to hunt during each moon phase
He first met the old man on one of many annual holiday hunts, and promised him a goose dinner. It took 10 years before that promise was fulfilled
As a lost hunter, your job is to make SAR’s job easier by staying put. But as you wait to be found, there are other things you should do to stay comfortable””and alive
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