MeatEater: Season 1 (10 Episodes)
MeatEater Season 1 includes the following episodes:
S1-E01: Into the Clouds: Sitka Blacktail Deer
S1-E02: The Sweetest Meat: Alaskan Black Bear
S1-E03: The Waters Edge: Waterfowl in Alaska
S1-E04: The Rugged Peaks: Alaskan Mountain Goat
S1-E05: Stalking the Grey Ghost: Arizona Coues Whitetail Deer
S1-E06: the New American Food Chain: Wild Pigs
S1-E07: Brotherhood, Badlands, and Pack Llamas: Montana Mule Deer
S1-E08: The Roughest Country: Texas Aoudad Sheep
S1-E09: Canyon Bottoms and Cookouts: Texas Javelina
S1-E10: Big Bucks and Small Game: Wisconsin Whitetail Deer
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S1-E01: Into the Clouds: Sitka Blacktail Deer
Steven Rinella wants to hunt where few have hunted before. To gain access to pristine ground, he charters a float plane to drop him high in the Alpine zone of Alaska’s Coastal Rainforest at a little used landing spot. He plans to spend three days alone in the wild hunting for blacktail deer. The...
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S1-E02: The Sweetest Meat: Alaskan Black Bear
To find the best-tasting game meat, you have to earn it. As the cold Alaskan winter approaches, bears flock to the high country of Alaska's Chugach Range while feasting on cranberry and blueberry. As summer turns to fall, the bears have exhausted low-elevation fruit and their quest to fatten up ...
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S1-E03: The Water's Edge: Waterfowl in Alaska
For a waterfowler's dream hunt, Steven Rinella joins his friend, wildlife biologist Brandt Meixell, on a remote trip to some untouched Alaska wetlands in search of ducks and geese. With a big spread of decoys and a loyal retriever, they try to get their limit and fill their bellies with a constan...
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S1-E04: The Rugged Peaks: Alaskan Mountain Goat
Every year, a handful of hunters draw a permit to hunt the Mills Creek region of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. Steven Rinella holds one of the permits this year, and he and his brother Danny backpack into the mountains, into country they’ve never seen, in hopes of finding a billy goat. It’s a gruelin...
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S1-E05: Stalking the Grey Ghost: Arizona Coues Whitetail Deer
To hunt some of the most elusive game, the predator must become its prey. Steven Rinella drew a tag to hunt the elusive Coues Deer in the stark mountains of southern Arizona, where his spot and stalk skills will be pushed to the limit hunting these tiny, ghostlike deer.
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S1-E06: The New American Food Chain: Wild Pigs
On this trip, Steven Rinella travels to the Sacramento Valley in central California in search of a challenge and seriously good food-- wild pigs. 300 years ago Spanish settlers let a handful of pigs loose in order to turn acorns into bacon, and today harvesting a wild pig for food is nexus of wil...
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S1-E07: Brotherhood, Badlands and Pack Llamas: Montana Mule Deer
Along with a trio of cantankerous, spit-hurling pack llamas, Steven Rinella, along with his brother Matt Rinella and good friend Matt Moison camp and hunt in the arid and frozen badlands of Eastern Montana for mule deer. Freezing cold temperatures and unforgiving topography add to the already-cha...
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S1-E08: The Roughest Country: Texas Aoudad Sheep
Steven Rinella heads into the Texas backcountry after one of the continent's most elusive feral animals -- the Barbary sheep, or Aoudad, of North Africa. For most hunters, just glimpsing one of these animals is a trophy. If Steve is lucky enough to land one of these sheep, he plans to cook them ...
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S1-E09: Canyon Bottoms and Cookouts: Texas Javelina
Steven Rinella takes to the thorns and thickets of a West Texas canyon in search of javelina. Smelling the animals is easy, but getting a clear shot with a bow is a whole other story.
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S1-E10: Big Bucks and Small Game: Whitetail Deer
Steven Rinella heads to Wisconsin to spend a few days on his buddy’s historical family farm. He will enlist other locals to help him hunt for a big buck or tasty doe in the famed Driftless area.