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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but is often overlooked by wild game cooks at home. Following a series of successful hunts across North America this past fall, Steve demonstrates how to cook a variety of breakfast classics using wild game ingredients—including black bear bacon, which Steve has never tried before.

2025-12-25 09:57:40 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 10:22:24 +0000 UTC (24m)

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Steven Rinella scratches his spring turkey itch this year as he visits Southeast Wisconsin to call in some big eastern Toms with his buddy Jerod Fink. The guys also plan to do some bow fishing after dark so they can enjoy a real Midwest turkey and fish fry.

2025-12-25 09:32:55 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 09:57:40 +0000 UTC (24m)

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Steve's annual quest for a giant mule deer buck continues this year in southwest Colorado. Here, Steve fills us in on his favorite critter, the mule deer. As he hunts will share his vast knowledge about these special western game animals including how to hunt, butcher, and most importantly how cook them-if he can put his tag on one.

2025-12-25 09:06:10 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 09:32:55 +0000 UTC (26m)

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Join Steve on this Cooking Special as he dives into the best of Alaskan seafood, featuring shrimp, crab, fish, and clams. Learn how to make easy, delicious seafood recipes that showcase the fresh flavors of the sea. Whether you're a seasoned cook or a beginner, Steve's simple steps will help you prepare mouthwatering dishes that capture the essence of Alaskan waters.

2025-12-25 08:41:25 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 09:06:10 +0000 UTC (24m)

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Steven Rinella is invited by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation for a special opportunity to hunt elk during the rut in the mountainous coal country of southeastern Kentucky, a place where his hero Daniel Boone once roamed. This is Steve's first eastern elk hunt, and he quickly realizes that the rules of the game here are different. If he manages to track one down, he'll prepare what was supposedly Boone's favorite meal: elk liver.

2025-12-25 08:14:41 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 08:41:25 +0000 UTC (26m)

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Steven Rinella and his friend and wild turkey specialist, Robert Abernathy, head to southern Florida to hunt Osceola gobblers. Steve hopes to finish off his Royal Turkey Slam, achieved by bagging all five subspecies of the American wild turkey—a quest that's been a decade in the making. These two turkey hunting fanatics celebrate with a delicious meal of grilled and stuff wild wild turkey breast.

2025-12-25 07:49:59 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 08:14:41 +0000 UTC (24m)

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Steven Rinella and his buddy Doug Duren give comedians Joe Rogan and Bryan Callen their first taste of Midwest deer hunting culture by sitting in freezing ground blinds on opening day in Wisconsin. It just wouldn't be a trip to the Duren Family Farm without a little trapping and duck hunting thrown in, rounding out the larder for a big wild game feast.

2025-12-25 07:25:14 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 07:49:59 +0000 UTC (24m)

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Steven Rinella and his buddy Doug Duren give comedians Joe Rogan and Bryan Callen their first taste of Midwest deer hunting culture by sitting in freezing ground blinds on opening day in Wisconsin. It just wouldn't be a trip to the Duren Family Farm without a little trapping and duck hunting thrown in, rounding out the larder for a big wild game feast.

2025-12-25 07:00:29 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 07:25:14 +0000 UTC (24m)

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Steve and his buddy Ryan Callaghan, a British Columbia guide, hike into the steep backcountry of northern British Columbia in search of grizzlies and black bears. Among the beutiful alpine vista, this adventure includes some intense and up-close bear action – almost too close.

2025-12-25 06:35:46 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 07:00:29 +0000 UTC (24m)

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Steve and his buddy Ryan Callaghan, a British Columbia guide, hike into the steep backcountry of northern British Columbia in search of grizzlies and black bears. Among the beutiful alpine vista, this adventure includes some intense and up-close bear action – almost too close.

2025-12-25 06:11:02 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 06:35:46 +0000 UTC (24m)

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Steve must deal with bad weather and fierce competition during a late-season central Montana elk hunt. With some tips from a friend, Steve encounters plenty of elk on this public land hunt. But he'll have to hike hard in steep country and deep snow to get to the elk and away from other hunters.

2025-12-25 05:46:18 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 06:11:02 +0000 UTC (24m)

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Steve and his buddy Ryan Callaghan float a remote river on a bull moose hunt in the wilderness of British Columbia. Here, they'll face one of the most dangerous moments in Steve's life as a hunter. But they'll also enjoy one the best wild game meals they've ever tasted.

2025-12-25 05:21:34 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 05:46:18 +0000 UTC (24m)

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Steven Rinella breaks down an entire boar and shares some of his favorite recipes in this Cooking Special. Matt Weingarter helps steve make head cheese, pork skin cracklins, smoked pork butt, and a tied-roast boned-out ham. Each dish requires thoughtful butchering, processing, and cooking to execute to perfection.

2025-12-25 04:56:51 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 05:21:34 +0000 UTC (24m)

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Steve ventures out to his hunting and fishing shack on a remote coastline of southeast Alaska's Prince of Wales Island. While hunting bears from a skiff and a canoe, Steve gathers a variety of prime seafood and makes a discovery about his own motivations as a bear hunter.

2025-12-25 04:31:06 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 04:56:51 +0000 UTC (25m)

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In this episode, Steven Rinella joins forces with fellow hunter and wild game chef Hank Shaw in the hills of Central California to go after Columbia blacktail deer, wild pigs, and a handful of small game species that are in season. The end result is a culinary smorgasbord of epic proportions.

2025-12-25 04:05:19 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-25 04:31:06 +0000 UTC (25m)

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With the help of guide and friend Remi Warren, Steven Rinella gears up for a massive climb into New Zealand's Southern Alps in pursuit of Chamois and Tahr. The hunters will travel light and base out of an alpine hut to find animals Steve has never hunted. Things turns adventurous quickly with an impassable glacial river between Steve and his goal. But with hard work, Steve experiences a do-it-yourself high country hunt like no other.

2025-12-24 21:49:32 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-24 22:16:32 +0000 UTC (27m)

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With the help of guide and friend Remi Warren, Steven Rinella gears up for a massive climb into New Zealand's Southern Alps in pursuit of Chamois and Tahr. The hunters will travel light and base out of an alpine hut to find animals Steve has never hunted. Things turns adventurous quickly with an impassable glacial river between Steve and his goal. But with hard work, Steve experiences a do-it-yourself high country hunt like no other.

2025-12-24 21:24:32 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-24 21:49:32 +0000 UTC (25m)

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Steven Rinella and local pig hunting expert, Darren Moore, spend a wild, action-packed day tracking down Captain Cook boars in the thick New Zealand bush. Their tools for the job include two tough little pig dogs, a knife, and some real grit. Wild pigs are dangerous critters and this is as visceral as a hunt gets. Along the way, Steve learns a new technique for field-prepping whole hogs.

2025-12-24 20:57:22 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-24 21:24:32 +0000 UTC (27m)

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Steven Rinella is on New Zealand's South Island for a do-it-yourself, free-range hunt for the majestic red stag. But first, he needs to secure some camp meat in the form of wild lamb. Battling weather and wary game in mountainous terrain, he uses his spot-and-stalk hunting skills to discover Kiwi red stags are a trophy worthy of the wall and the cook pot.

2025-12-24 20:30:07 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-24 20:57:22 +0000 UTC (27m)

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Steven Rinella heads into the mountains of the Sonora Desert on a true, wild, free-ranging bison hunt. Steve knows Buffalo, but seeing and stalking these beasts in this dry, stark habitat is very different from anything he's ever done. But with persistence and patience, he's able to find a herd of one of North America's most iconic animals. Sharing the bounty, Steve experiences a traditional Mexican feast with a table of hungry cowboys.

2025-12-24 20:05:08 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-24 20:30:07 +0000 UTC (24m)