Cal in the Field: Maine - Private Ground & Public Woodcock & Grouse | S2E04 | MeatEater

[@intensemojo]

Adding Cal has been a brilliant extension of the MeatEater brand. You've given us another protagonist that's likable, real, and an excellent narrator. Whoever is managing and editing these episodes is doing a fantastic job as well. Well done, folks.

[@JDM_Jonetsu]

Cal seems like a real down to earth, old-soul kind of guy. There's a certain comfort in the way he carries himself.

[@domenicm3083]

Check out when cal and Steve go moose hunting and the bull charges Steve. Cal’s reaction is awesome

[@lokei1326]

@@domenicm3083 so smooth

[@domenicm3083]

@@lokei1326 like a cool dad

[@niiclark6452]

Buy "UMA"!! A cryptocurrency, Ethereum token that will hit $100 in the next couple months 🚀🚀 lets push this price up!!! The future for sure

[@morrisdomke8920]

CAL YOUR WELCOME TO OUR GROUSE CAMP IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN ANY YEAR,,And you can Bring Steve back home to Michigan tooo

[@LovroTube]

MeatEater helps me relax so much in this hard times, hello from Croatia! Love whole MeatEater family!

[@niiclark6452]

Buy "UMA"!! A cryptocurrency, Ethereum token that will hit $100 in the next couple months 🚀🚀 lets push this price up!!! The future for sure

[@landonboomsma2594]

What do you hunt and fish for in croatia? I visited croatia about 5 years ago and it’s my favorite country I’ve ever been to. Dubrovnik was really cool but sadly it’s becoming to busy I guess I’m part of the problem. The national parks and coast line was gorgeous as well

[@lone_wolf_lifestyle]

We need to see Cal and Brant in another episode !

[@niiclark6452]

Buy "UMA"!! A cryptocurrency, Ethereum token that will hit $100 in the next couple months 🚀🚀 lets push this price up!!! The future for sure

[@jasperchieng]

That sweep at 5:04 is something me and my friends would do any day of the week, but I don't know that it's the best thing to see on camera.

[@ethan....]

100% agree! The few guys I hunt with have been hunting together for over a decade. With that kind of experience with hunting partners, you get to a level of understanding - a person just know what they're going to do in such situations. For example, it isn't anything to see my buddy following a bird and his barrel headed my way. Without talking, he knows I'm going to duck/lean forward out of the way, and he knows he can keep following the bird and shoot over me if need be with it being completely acceptable. - this is no way acceptable for me if I am hunting with someone brand new to my group because it's just too risky even if they're veteran hunters because I don't know the way they think, and they don't know the way I do. With my guys though, its no problem and we laugh about it in the odd times where it does happen - never with rifles though. There is such a high level of trust and knowledge hunting with them these situations looked like a well oiled machine we just know what to do and when to do it while still being safe. To an outsider looking in it may look unsafe and chaotic, but these actions are learned by YEARS of hunting next to each other.

[@AtlasAct01]

@@ethan.... No amount of trust would prevent an unfortunate accident. No bird is worth you or your buddies life.

[@joshray6048]

So cool to have this happen in Maine! We're loosing access at an alarming rate. These types of initiatives to secure public access, are so important, and are the future for places like Maine. Thanks Cal, MeatEater, and HPA for setting an example and shinning a light on this! I'm stoked to grab the shotgun and go check out Shiloh Pond this fall!

[@dowjones7817]

I am a Mainer in the western area by the popular ski resort sugarloaf, and this is so true to what is going on. We have had such amazing hunting and raw area to get lost in that it use to be baffling to most. As we still do have a ton of this, but it is crazy to watch honey holes and just good old nostalgia areas become private. When I saw this episode was from Maine I lit up with and not only was I happy to see that they were hunting our enrich habitat, you were able to show the problems we have occurring. So thank you meat eater. Long time fan and happy to see you guys not only pursuing the paramount joys of hunting, but also the overcoming situations at hand to preserve it.

[@stormcry8202]

Woot!!!! A shout out from Westbrook!!!! :)

[@jedimasterjoe5386]

Your from Avon

[@wyattviles1254]

I'm from Strong

[@hunterwebber6025]

@@wyattviles1254 Sabattus

[@Bill.Mazariego]

I’m from maine and this absolutely awesome to see maine get recognition like this we are ver fortunate to have what we do and it’s up to us to keep this for future generations

[@jcarry5214]

I'm from Maine and now live in a western state that's majority public land. I've tried to explain access to poeple here and they almost don't believe me. Maine is largely wild but seriously unlike the wildlands in the west. This is a really great and important thing to talk about.

[@soonerfrac4611]

I’ve always been torn about public lands. If we’ve got them, they should be open to the public and able to be used by the public. However.... I just don’t believe that the feds should be able to own so much land, or really even any lands not related to mil/LEO/similar. I know that in the western states that the feds own them because they purchased the land and are the original title holders. But why? At statehood it should have been turned over to the state. Very torn.

[@ZGADOW]

@@soonerfrac4611 you’re missing an important point. The feds don’t own public lands , the PEOPLE own them. I live in Maine and I’ve lived in the Rockies and both have lots of land that is open to the public , but at least we get to vote about federal lands. These massive private lands up here in Maine will one day be worth more as vacation homes than timber land and that’s when you’ll regret not making them publically owned

[@jcarry5214]

@@soonerfrac4611 Public lands are owned by the public. They are managed in trust by different branches of the federal government for the public benefit. Very few unique locations are protected from commercial exploitation. Even national monuments allow most types of individual activity. Only 3 percent of the nation is protected from untethered private use in national parks. Public lands are an enormous benefit to the nation as a whole and to the people who live near them and the northeast needs more of it. The government didn't go around buying property (some from other countries, yes) they just began administering it and selling it to the states and individuals after they killed/rounded up/ dishomed the natives. Or conquering it from the spanish or french speakers who killed the natives. States can buy land from the government very very cheaply if they want the responsibility, they just have to prove they have a legitimate use for it. Happens all the time where I live. Individuals can buy land as long as they don't abuse it. The idea that the government shouldn't own land mostly comes from people who want to allow corporations to profit without limitations or responsibility. Corporations would bulldoze irreplaceable resources to get the ones they can sell, then abandon it and leave it up to the public to deal with the mess. That's how it's worked where the land isn't public. I grew up in Maine when the rivers and forests were just getting healthy after the Feds stepped in when my parents were young. I don't feel conflicted about it at all. Lack of public oversight into land and water use had left wells and soil poisoned and rivers so toxic they'd peel your skin. Large amounts of private forest, not federal land leased by private companies, had been logged irresponsibly in a way that left no transitional habitat for the wildlife or regrowth of the trees themselves. Streams and watersheds suffered as soil and bark clogged them. Aside from all that there are millions and millions of acres that nobody would own if the feds didn't. They'd just be trashed by a few people and decay the ecosystem in ways that would far outstrip the negatives of federal oversight.

[@soonerfrac4611]

No, the actual physical title is held by the fed in trust for the public. And My point is it never should have been that way. Federal lands are the largest or near largest land owners in the country. There’s nothing in the Constitution that allows for that. But like i said, I’m torn from this as well. Sell the lands and they are gone to public access. Bad. Currently many lease holders on public lands can treat them as totally private and block access to the public, or charge an access fee. Also bad. The reality is that upon statehood the land should have been deeded to the individual state, not the feds continuing to hold the title. Here in OK the state is buying land to get more public access and I’m good with that. They are also receiving land via trusts & donations from families with large properties. Also good with that. I absolutely love public lands, but feel that the federal government should be out of the lands business.

[@ZGADOW]

@@soonerfrac4611 What about the federal government holding the land is unappealing to you? It's essentially a pause button on fragmentation and development and we are all able to use the land in the meantime. What alternative do you see? I for one am glad things went the way they did. Most of the land granted to the states by the federal government has been sold into private ownership throughout history, and access in most of those lands is not open to the public. What exactly is wrong with the federal government owning land if we can all use it and it doesn't get fenced and developed?

[@Popcorncedar]

I just had 30 of my 80 logged two years ago, the young poplar growth is like a magnet to Woodies. Damn they are my favorite to hunt!

[@brockyenglin]

I think the SxS makes Cal's mustache even more powerful.

[@jcarry5214]

or is it the other way around? I love my side by side but I do NOT make it look that good.

[@daviddawson7393]

do you know what gun he is carrying?

[@plossjeffrey5773]

I have been eating woodcock since I was a little kid and now I'm 45 and have not found anything that has taken me back to my childhood like hunting them in my home state of Pennsylvania. Have been seeing more of them this year than I have ever seen before.

[@geebee3d]

Seriously love Meat Eater. The only real hunting show out there. Unlike other outdoor productions that are nothing more than outdoorsy frat boy wannabes engaging their viewers in a 40 minute infomercial for the not one, but 50 products they pimp for their sponsors (because after all, those tricked out F250’s ain’t cheap) Meat Eater actually describes the soul of the outdoors and what hunting and fishing are. Sometimes Steve harvests an animal, and sometimes he treks for miles and miles without so much as seeing any sort of game. That is reality. It’s appreciated, and it’s refreshing.

[@ZGADOW]

it's tough hunting up here in Maine, but there's plenty of birds. It's tough but that makes it all the more satisfying when it comes together. Most bird hunters in Maine hunt the roads. I love that you included road hunting. Purists may not like it but it's legal and effective. I hunt the road when me or my dog are too tired to keep hoofing it or when the birds are far between. I no longer feel guilty about it

[@highpeaksalliance4593]

Whatever keeps you outside all day! Early season is so hard in the woods, it is just too thick.

[@Kodiak-Outdoors]

Seeing this makes me miss home so much back in Maine. Thank you guys for shedding light on the land use in Maine.

[@ltdannichols]

I fell in love with Maine and have gone up hunting there for the last decade. This is exactly my experience of how little public land there is, but lots of open private land.....for now. I appreciate what you do Cal.

[@josheustis4633]

This is a fantastic representation of hunting in western Maine. Cal and steve are the absolute best with teaching people wholesome hunting values and respect for the land and animals.

[@ikazukison2]

At 10:30, he mentions something important . . . giving everyone access to land that isn't otherwise marked is good in theory, but there is certainly a significant issue when "nuisance use" becomes an issue, mostly drinking and littering

[@rabbithomesteading3797]

Ryan "Cal" Callahan is so cool!

[@eblackshaw]

Agreed .. Cal is valued added to any hunting trip / story. He brings so much to the hunt.

[@TacticalGhost939]

I grew up in Fort Kent Maine and spent a lot of time in the North Maine Woods. Bird hunting season is still my favorite time to go back. Some of my best memories are driving around the logging roads looking for birds with my dad or friends. It's a special place.

[@SmokeFallRiot]

Loving the whole MeatEater family!!! Awesome content that is much appreciated!! God Bless Y’all!!!

[@TheBigGameHunter57]

Awesome to have you up here in Maine Cal!

[@bakkila99]

The way he said “im glad I brought my western Montana bird dog” cracked me up and I had to rewind it twice

[@Northeast_Adventures]

Love seeing this in my home state. Born and raised in Houlton and now living in Bangor

[@JoeSenger]

I just completed 2 years of back episodes of Cal's Week in Review and I've got to say, Cal is a favorite. I appreciate his "wink wink, nudge nudge" sense of humor, as well as his thoughtfully nuanced POV. As for this episode, I love the "Odd Couple" juxtaposition of a 100% tricked-out brand ambassador hunting with a dude in a t-shirt and flannel. Great chemistry, educational and entertaining banter made for a great episode. And they did it while keeping the show appropriate for all viewers, unlike Joe Cermele.

[@derekpennington9563]

From a guy who lived in centra l maine all 50 yrs of my life i love sering others come enjoy and respect the lands . Widh alot of people from our state do the same . Most do but always some bad seeds. Great video

[@highpeaksalliance4593]

That's why we need help tending the garden so to speak.

[@charlesharakal4892]

Great video! I fell in love with Maine last October when I took my first trip there with my young Labrador retriever to bag our first Ruffed Grouse!

[@justsomesaltyboi8716]

to protect land to be sufficient for outdoor activities, it is like you said. it is insanely monumental because you have to have communities to help back that up. as someone who is related to John Maine, that place is just gorgeous!

[@casey_lee7579]

These newer videos are so underrated! Cal is great!!! Hoping to see more Remy, Cal, and Steven!

[@grantbeals6008]

I've lived in Maine my whole life and just started upland hunting last year. I really appreciate you guys calling attention to this issue of access. It's well past time I joined a conservation program.

[@jonathanswoyer5218]

"Like the brother I never had, and sometimes like the brother I never wanted" 😂. That means he is your brother from another mother for sure! Great episode and project. Thanks to you all

[@CalmBeforetheStormME]

Glad to call this great state home! I grew up hunting the logging land in the North Maine Woods. Amazing place for sure

[@Natron27]

Meat Eater is absolutely knocking it out of the park lately. Cal has been an excellent addition! I really appreciate the work you folks do and the content you put out.

[@TheMaineWoods]

I’m glad this is getting attention, thanks for doing it

[@johnwood1010]

SO GOOD to see your still guiding upland hunter Steve Smith ! John Wood

[@auto_5]

I love grouse and woodcock hunting. I do it here in Minnesota. Cool episode and keep up the good work in conservation. I urge anyone else who is into or interested in getting into grouse/woodcock hunting to join and support the Ruffed Grouse/American woodcock Society(RGS/AWS)!

[@dano7802]

14:40 U had me at this.. exactly the type of fun I like to see

[@anthonyraye5831]

Finally reppin Maine on the meateater Platform... Maine is your target audience

[@kalebjohnson8644]

🤣🤣

[@errollittlefield8450]

Hey Cal thanks for comming to Maine and spreading awareness for the High Peaks Alliance . Thank you MeatEater

[@jackk2722]

Cal's narration brings me back to sitting in woodshop watching a Ken Burns documentary

[@henriklarsson729]

you are probably the most best ambassader for hunting and conservation an wildlife there is:)!

[@dcavic6157]

I'm going grouse hunting for the first time ever and will be going to Maine. This is a great video, Thank you

[@fredrikloveus1661]

In Sweden we have something called "Allemansrätt" basicly All mens right. Gives you a right to hike,camp for a short while, canoe, ski, pick berries and mushroom etc everywhere. Fishing licenses are fairly cheap and usually covers a whole area with stocked waters beeing exempt or have special rules. Hunting is tied to land ownership through so that's an other story. Pretty proud to live where the right to roam is protected by law though.

[@highpeaksalliance4593]

We just did a Instagram post on this! Thanks for sharing.

[@Upstatebackwoods]

We have the same in the states, atleast in NY. We call them state forests or wildlife management areas. You can camp, hunt, fish pick berries, do drugs. All for free

[@zyourzgrandzmaz]

such characters, the best morning show for starting the day

[@ryanbuckley3314]

Good on you guys, especially folks like Brett. In central and southern Ontario have been seeing a lot of this kind of thing play out for a while now. It's working its way north, slowly. We need to be thinking about conservation and access in the north too. Without conservation and access, our way of life is gonna change. That's a fine line to walk and conscientious outdoorsmanship is how we are gonna keep our pass time viable into the future.

[@woodlum007]

What a great episode. I plan on moving to Maine soon, so it's great to see content addressing these land access/ownership. I like how Meateater includes conservation topics because I would like for myself and many more generations to continue enjoying these lands and living closer to nature.

[@brainp471]

Yall have done so much content east of the mississippi, would love to see more east coast stuff around Maine and New Hampshire.

[@anthonypayne9386]

I have never seen a Grouse plucked before. Grouse is one of my favorites to eat of any meat, but I have not had it in years. Hopefully I will get some this week!

[@hunteredberg3392]

Great work as always Cal. Thanks for always fighting for the wild places - the best places we have left

[@maverick5066]

I see you Maine. Looking good. Love NB 🍻

[@austineddy8261]

im a brunswicker too

[@maverick5066]

@@austineddy8261 🍻

[@shawnthompson9143]

Thanks for bringing attention to the land access issues in the northeast. 👍

[@siegehammer63]

I'm just so stoked that MeatEater is doing more upland stuff, always dig the Mustached Marauder being on the screen too. You're welcome at my birdcamp any time.

[@statesidekale]

So happy to see an episode in Maine!

[@headybud]

So cool to see new england in these episodes

[@alansenecal5548]

Nice to see you in New England Cal. Also, great to see and hear what HPA is doing.

[@redpanda7967]

Just something about New England.

[@highpeaksalliance4593]

Thanks Alan

[@davidjordan8093]

This is not far from me! Been waiting for you to do some episodes up here!

[@TheJesse1515]

Would love to see the whole meat eater crew strike out on a northern maine white tail hunt 😂

[@davidjordan8093]

@@TheJesse1515 fuck yes buddy! Got a camp in the forks and there’s some bruisers up there! Great idea man!

[@TheJesse1515]

@@davidjordan8093 yes there are. There are some nice deer in that area…I was thinking more East. They might get spoiled if they go to the forks

[@stevejohnston1272]

Great episode Guys. Cal killed it. (littoral and figurative)

[@gamedinnah]

Great to see you here in Maine! And what a great year 2020 was for grouse. Lots of guys eating them as fast as they could shoot them. Thanks for the work you do Brent! Be honest- you guys do any heater hunting? Now it’s time for the MeatEater crew to come up and track some BIG bucks down in those woods!

[@highpeaksalliance4593]

This isn't our first rodeo!

[@gamedinnah]

@@highpeaksalliance4593 😂 That’s what I like to hear! Keep kicking ass!

[@masstrapper7645]

This is what happens when you bring a western hunter here to the east. I’d be interested to see you guys come and shoot a big buck on public land anywhere in the northeast. Great video 👍👍😎

[@ericharrington2509]

Great information and area to support. I’d love to see Cal come back to Maine and do a segment on Moose hunting or better yet North Woods whitetails ... Good stuff

[@jimcurrie4031]

Im enjoying this conservation series Cal..... great work

[@josephgomes8543]

Great video and shot in the East too ! Tough filming in tight thick woods but you did a great job. Commeneers are correct, Cal is a great addition to the team.

[@whydoineedahandle269]

Cal is darn quick on the swing. Oh boy

[@duskmean]

5:01 Cameraman duckin but still getting the shot.

[@klappy803]

Sad to say but poor form on Cals part. Did not expect him to take that shot, or for them to include it in the edit.

[@shopmongrel]

This is happening in Oregon too! Weyerhouser was bought out, closed it's access and started charging for permits to enter land I've been hunting since I was young!

[@christopherreily1895]

Awesome episode. Great to have Cal here in Northern New England.

[@GHOSTNINJASD]

Nice! Watching this now while I work.

[@thisisahmed4571]

Me too!!

[@terrymcginnis634]

Cal's mustache contains the secrets of the universe

[@Mesatchornug]

Excited to see you working the Northeast. I'd love to see more!

[@aaronrider4051]

awesome video. God bless Maine!

[@Murftree74]

Happy 750k subscribers, should be over a million with how good the content is

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

Awesome video. I went to high school with Brent. Great guy and funny as hell!

[@antonkuhn971]

More quality content! Keep up the great work Meateaters!

[@stanleyshelby7460]

Another nice one Cal...getting close to saying I am ready for your "What All Did You Learn" quiz probably coming at us in the near future👏

[@dominodm2919]

Love it that he's got his own bit good for the show

[@MetalBuddhaHead]

I really digging these vids... Great content meateater!

[@duanevigue1603]

Welcome to Maine! You have to be a super fast draw and a deadeye to shoot grouse in the woods up here.

[@marktracy2577]

This is as good as it gets. Really nice work.

[@thekingd9390]

Hunting in Maine is hard. Those dirt roads up north are fun but by the time you get out of work on Friday and get up north to hunt Saturday, weekend is pretty much smoked. Need to allow Sunday hunting

[@leebatt7964]

Hunting grouse in the Maine woods is by the most challenging shooting I have ever done and I was born and raised their. The old timers just cruise the logging roads and shoot birds that ate in the road.

[@statesidekale]

That and Hunting snow shoe hares in those same thick woods, very difficult to get anything close to a clear shot

[@johnjackson3889]

I bought 36 acres up in waldo county last fall. Every time I walk in my woods I jump grouse but only managed to get one shot off last season because of how darned thick it is.

[@DanBravoH]

Cal can be my point man anytime!! SemperFi

[@polarisoutdoors3105]

More Upland videos please. This was great !!

[@jimstaub2308]

Great story ! Thanks Cal.

[@asagrimmr1459]

My brother and I used to shoot some timber doodle walked up but it was more of a wader afair since they were usually around creek bottoms.

[@jesselund360]

I love Cal

[@campcookhenry]

My shell to bird ratio use to be 3 1/2 to 4 shells per bird for grouse in similar cover in central Wisconsin

[@coastalcarolinaliving]

Love woodcock hunting, super exciting, we get a pretty decent population sown in south carolina

[@lucas7692]

Cal is very interesting to listen to. I also envy his mustache.

[@4a.m.wakeupcall588]

I'm not a hunter, have thought about taking it up. I am an outdoor enthusiast and i am happy there are people like you guys out there fighting the complete privatization of all lands! if it were up to all the billionaires we would be given our boxes to live in and only allowed out when they say so.

[@georgethomas4889]

I wish we had open access land here in the UK like you guys have in the states. Many forests here in the UK are SSSI or privately owned and are off limits for foraging. We lack the outdoorsy culture that you guys have!

[@jackiekinner3826]

Another great episode. You and Rinella are in a league of your own. Keep it up brother. Regards from a British pats fan. (Thought I’d mention that as you in that area. )

[@Brickcityluv]

Good deal Cal- I'm goin up to check it out!.thanks 🤙🤙

[@stewbuck83]

Love these films , completely different from the hunting we have here in the uk, makes me want to come to the USA 👍

[@tomford2434]

Watching from NH!! Lovin it Cal

[@headybud]

Same here 👍

[@tomford2434]

@@headybud no way!! What parts?!

[@sherlockbonez]

Spent so much time sitting in a discovery 169 when I was young.

[@ivanpaju2390]

As a New Hampshire resident the struggle to find good public land is unbelievable then you finally find good properties and by the next year all good numbers of animals are down because of predators and other hunters that found the same exact animals. I had a property last year that I consistently saw and shot in Grouse off of this year, I haven’t seen one there and I put my fair share of hours in on that property it changes year to year and it’s a struggle especially for Grouse maine is a little easier to find great grouse property but down here in southern New Hampshire. It’s a little harder to come by

[@austineddy8261]

love from northern New Brunswick

[@rudyelizondo1935]

Nice hunt guys, love it

[@mziskin]

Great to see u guys out here in new england