MeatEater

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, a place that is to remain unnamed. He plans to spend three days alone in the wild hunting for blacktail deer. His strategy is to move from peak to peak, glassing the surrounding kwhunting

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. This is the best time of year to see lots of animals, but the real challenge is being able to reach the bears. As summer turns to fall, the bears have exhausted low-elevation fruit and their quest to f

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 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.

Every year, a handful of hunters draw a permit to hunt the Mills Creek region Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. Steven 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.

To hunt some of the most elusive game, the predator must become its prey. 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. Featured meal is cowl-fat deer heart tacos.

Wild Hogs can thrive almost anywhere'just like Steve. On this trip, Rinella 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.

Along with a pair of cantankerous and spit-hurling pack llamas, Steven and his brother Matt camp and hunt in the arid badlands of eastern Montana for mule deer. Featured meal is mountain man-style, pit-roasted head of venison.

Steven 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.'Featured meal is North African style clay pot sheep.

Rinella heads out on an Archery hunt for Javelina in the canyons of West Texas.

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. Featured meal is Butterflied Venison Steaks and Hassenpfeffer (Peppered Hare Stew).