The BEST episodes of MeatEater season 1
Every episode of MeatEater season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of MeatEater season 1!
In MeatEater, author hunter and outdoorsman Steve Rinella will walk on the wild side where cliffs, claws and the culinary art all come crashing together in one nail-biting outdoors adventure. He will deconstruct and master any hunting technique; track and pursue prey; and procure his own food, which he will turn into a mouth-watering fireside meal. Far from trophy or sport hinting, Rinella stays true you our ancestral tradition of sustenance hunting- nothing he harvests goes to waste. Whether tracking black tail deer in the remote Alaskan Wilderness, or rooting out Javelina in Texas, Rinella will defer to his back-country roots, challenging himself at every corner while providing nail biting adventure along the way.
#1 - Alaska: Ducks
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/1/2012
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 constant supply of duck meat. Featured meal is willow-spit roasted whole duck.
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#2 - Wisconsin: Whitetail Deer
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/22/2012
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.
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#3 - Alaska: Mountain Goat
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/11/2012
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 grueling hunt, and there's the constant threat of losing your meat if the goat spills over a cliff.
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#4 - Texas: Javelina
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/29/2012
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. Featured meal is boiled javelina with cactus pears.
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#5 - The Sweetest Meat: Alaskan Black Bear
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2012
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 pushes them into higher and less accessible terrain. The hard work and long hike pays off, as berry-fed black bears provide some of the finest tasting meat available to the American hunter.
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#6 - Texas: Aoudad
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/22/2012
Steven Rinella heads into the Texas back-country 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 up in traditional hunter-style over a fire.
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#7 - Brotherhood, Badlands, and Pack Llamas: Montana Mule Deer
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/15/2012
Along with a trio of cantankerous, spit-hurling pack llamas, Steven Rinella, along with his brother Matt 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-challenging job of finding and stalking a Mule Deer buck. In this environment the deer have all of the advantage: they can spot, smell, and hear hunters long before they are anywhere near shooting range. To combat the freezing temperatures, Rinella plans to make a hunter's stew to celebrate a successful hunt.
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#8 - Alaska: Blacktail Deer
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2012
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 primary challenges are steep and technically challenging terrain, drifting fog banks, and nearly incessant rain and snow.
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#9 - Stalking the Grey Ghost: Arizona Coues Whitetail Deer
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/15/2012
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. To successfully take a deer Steve will have to become equally invisible, quiet, and attuned to his surroundings...he will need to become a desert ghost. In tune with the local culture, Steve will pack a small kit of tortillas, chilies, and all the fixings to prepare fire-grilled heart tacos.
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#10 - The New American Food Chain: Wild Pigs
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/8/2012
Wild Hogs can thrive almost anywhere - just like Steven Rinella. On this trip, Steve travels to the Sacramento Valley in central California in search of challenge and seriously good food. 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 wild living and seriously good food. Steve will prepare a back-country gourmet feast of pork loin roasted with apples and rosemary cooked in tinfoil over a fire.
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