Watch as Steve shows a slow descent into madness as he looks for the Lost Bird.
@tomasesquivel52483 жыл бұрын
loving these episodes, Rinella has such a way with words
@matthewep13363 жыл бұрын
He’s a writer so it makes sense
@tomasesquivel52483 жыл бұрын
@@matthewep1336 not every writer is a good one, but I get your point
@gasparjmigueljr913 жыл бұрын
@@matthewep1336 7t 8
@gasparjmigueljr913 жыл бұрын
@@matthewep1336 6y
@Joe-tr5uv3 жыл бұрын
He’s pretty articulate
@lunkydog3 жыл бұрын
Without this episode, we wouldn't have gotten part 2, one of my favorite episodes.
@czwirner3 жыл бұрын
Barb!!
@jameskearse86173 жыл бұрын
They were going to scrap this episode initially. Janis saved it
@jackiekinner38262 жыл бұрын
Der
@thommytasakis34783 жыл бұрын
Grouse in the forest, without a dog, is challenging. Nice preseverence and hunting skills.
@kushiswashed.50273 жыл бұрын
lol i have never hunted with a dog up in labrador thousands of grouse here
@thenewbohemian5779 Жыл бұрын
@@kushiswashed.5027 not all of us are lucky enough to reside in Labrador. Get one for me tiger.
@my_saviour3 жыл бұрын
Bro! His episodes are the best thing ever, i fully support the idea of him having his own channel, one for him and him alone!!
@fayaazalibhai46653 жыл бұрын
It is his channel
@hunterphleger18363 жыл бұрын
Man I have really missed this episode since it hasn’t been on Netflix. This is the episode that I started with and this might be the sole reason I got so into this show
@Verlisify3 жыл бұрын
The way Steve describes the noise sounds like an amazing evolutionary trait. Predators can't find it, but the way the species perceives that sound is probably beyond anything we can comprehend
@wessthemess1173 жыл бұрын
I can picture them sitting in the trees watching him when he gets close 🤣🤣
@marcuswagner13963 жыл бұрын
always funny seeing you here
@charliexu99963 жыл бұрын
What kind of predator can hunt bird in alaska tho
@dakotac95473 жыл бұрын
@@charliexu9996 other birds, big cats?
@amorton943 жыл бұрын
@@charliexu9996 Literally every predator will eat a bird if given the opportunity. Coyotes, foxes, all cats, predatory birds, etc.
@Damon_3653 жыл бұрын
These two episodes are some of my favorites.
@zacharyharris4383 жыл бұрын
Same. He just needs some bird dogs.
@angeltorres86323 жыл бұрын
Oh yup this ones dope
@ErikFabian3 жыл бұрын
Bingo
@algernoncalydon34303 жыл бұрын
You almost did it! But you used the wrong call. You have experienced what multitudes of other people who tried to hunt hooters have experienced. Hunting in Alaska if far different than down south. When I was a year in Southeast Alaska I tried to get some grouse and ended up frustrated as well. I ended up deckhanding for an old guy who told me you could call them to you. I thought he was full of it and didn't even try. Then a coworker who was raised there was practicing his call at work and i asked him about it. He said he could call them in. So I tried the next spring. Worked like magic. You don't use a reed. You only use your voicebox. Close your mouth and pass the air up into your mouth so it echos in your mouth. Don't do it fast. Do it slow. You can even cup your hands over your voicebox and aim it. In early April the birds are more aggressive and you only need to get near their tree and they will come barrelling down and land right in front of you. Be ready, as they will really land right above your head, or even at your feet. The reason they seem to move is that they will move around the tree projecting their voice in various directions. So when a person approaches the tree they will walk around to the other side of the tree and hoot out that direction, and it will sound like they are now a mile away. They aren't. If they move and project ninety degrees they will sound like they are way off that direction, even though they are still on the same limb. The bigger grouse get the best hooting spots, valleys with creeks, the edges of big muskegs, or overhangs. The young ones are along the beach and like the one you got. Even if you don't call them, which I've had friends who absolutely refused to even when I showed them and a grouse landed five feet above their heads on a limb, you can be patient and using you binoculars carefully search the various trees. They often sit on a clumb of moss and so you may not see them from below. You circle the area and scan the trees very carefully. If you get one who won't come down when it's called then call anyway a you may catch sight of his tail jigging up and down as he calls back. Also, the grouse around towns are used to people and will shut up if they see one, whereas once you get away from town you can hear dozens in one area, and they are very aggressive and will come down quick. Muskegs are good areas to hunt for grouse. They are not like the grouse up here in the interior where you might run into a whole flock and kill as many as you like, The blue grouse, you will only get a few a day as you have to walk a long way between them. And one more thing. If like myself you have a deep voice and can make a call that sounds like a big male, don't. If you sound like a big grouse then some of the grouse won't come to the call. They don't want their butt kicked. If you call like a young male grouse( you can tell the difference after a while) then all the grouse will come after you thinking it's and easy win. Those grouse are very good eating, well worth the effort. No chicken is that good.
@dongchangminh81143 жыл бұрын
I just can wait for another episode. The guy is just so inspiring with his presentation of every single part of the adventure.
@rwilson2083 жыл бұрын
I like when you hunt alone and give the commentary. It gives the feeling of being alone in a large area and looking for adventures at every turn,. You never know when you will find what you are looking for nor what will happen next. Will the prey that you are after evade you? Will your shot find its mark? Will you miss and go hungry for that certain meal and have to rely on the rations that you brought with you on this hunt? What terrain or problems will you encounter on this trip? I can imagine our Native Brothers who once roamed these areas with plenty of animals in full abundance. No limits and no rules, just hunt, kill, the women cook or prepare and feed their families. The bones, tendons, and what was left of the animal were used for clothing, shelter, weapons, tools, etc. What a wonderful and interesting life you and others like yourself get to enjoy. What peace and tranquility to be with your thoughts as you endeavor to meet or surpass your expectations.
@nickjohnson87803 жыл бұрын
" If you ever happen to find yourself in the coastal rain forests of Alaska, and you hear this sound, go ahead and hit that subscribe button"
@buncer3 жыл бұрын
Especially if you identify as a AN/PSN-13 DAGR.
@dongchangminh81143 жыл бұрын
Ahahahhahaha I like that
@FirstDagger3 жыл бұрын
@@buncer ; Oddly specific.
@izenga6063 жыл бұрын
Meateater days are the best days
@andrewwebster133 жыл бұрын
It’s the crazy kind of stuff that brings your sport full circle... makes it complete.
@danielsloan57053 жыл бұрын
I have been a fan for a while, but your work seems to be up a notch Steve....Great episode. I wanna share this one for sure.......
@Synchronic80803 жыл бұрын
Ha thought it was gonna fly away as Steve lined up his shot. Glad he got it at the end after all that effort!
@amorton943 жыл бұрын
Whoa man, spoiler alert! 😂
@brandonlantier3 жыл бұрын
Just watched the second hunt with Barb it was a good one but too easy, I love watching Steve pick apart and breaking down the hunt, it shows its not always just easy pickings, lots of non hunters think oh you have a gun its an unfair advantage, it is but only if you can find it and get close enough to shoot it.
@sacreddeer33613 жыл бұрын
When I see a meateater notification my brain go like sheeeesh.
@МилошКараџић3 жыл бұрын
only Rinella tho
@puprilla3 жыл бұрын
What's with u young idiots? Dont know English or are you to dumb to speak right?
@kylegriffin78723 жыл бұрын
Sheeeeeeeeeeesh
@puprilla3 жыл бұрын
@@kylegriffin7872 don't forget to put that on your McDonald's application
@kylegriffin78723 жыл бұрын
@@puprilla I make $120,000 a year have fun once in a while you old goat
@PhilGillisDoctor3 жыл бұрын
Finally more Steve! The only time I’ll click on meat eater 🥳
@Spiffy3033 жыл бұрын
The rest of them are great too except for the clown on the fishing show.
@mattgood52543 жыл бұрын
So happy you guys keep posting these. I love this series
@aaronodell18363 жыл бұрын
I grew up hunting blue grouse in the mountains of Eastern Utah. They really are a delicious bird. One of my favorites. Really enjoyed this episode to see the completely different habitat and hunting strategy for essentially the same bird. Fall blue grouse hunts out here involve pushing through sage brush hillsides in the high mountains and walking through groups of Aspen trees to flush these birds out. Beautiful birds regardless.
@nathanielbetteridge49783 жыл бұрын
Any species that can be hunted legally in the spring is near and dear to my heart
@smokey40863 жыл бұрын
My favorite kind of hunting feels so good when you get one!! I always find them at the snow line here in Oregon. 9/10 they are tucked off the side of old Forest roads at high elevation right at that line. The fact that you say they are impossible makes me feel good because they are definitely difficult and you are one skilled Hunter.
@2112CO Жыл бұрын
Love this guy and binge watching all the time.
@denishunter21513 жыл бұрын
Mesmerized by Steves videos! Freaking relieving here grouse hunt!
@tylertempleton74183 жыл бұрын
Gotta love Revillagigedo. Dude was our favorite hike. Too good watching POW and the greater SE area getting some love.
@kypaintster3 жыл бұрын
always tickled to see a new episode.
@bobbyboucher19363 жыл бұрын
Really wanted to see you prepare that bird!
@phenoix753 жыл бұрын
Today on meat eater- Steve does random shit and we record it.
@aparson29673 жыл бұрын
We call them hooters, or blues. My favorite hunt. Finally saw the whole episode, and have a rip for you - you can call to roosters by imitating the hoot. They respond because to they think you are another male trying to steal his hens. The hens actually go looking for the hooter who is usually in a spot where his call can broadcast over a large area where he can be heard for a couple of miles...... And the hens come charging in
@c.j.rogers24223 жыл бұрын
So, perhaps imitating the male's call to attract the females might work, if shooting hens is acceptable.
@cedricnora44813 жыл бұрын
@@c.j.rogers2422 bingo 😂🙄 Dude forgot he's not shooting hens 😂
@brianlotze58303 жыл бұрын
I also have to say that after living on Prince of Wales Island and hiking through those forests, I have utmost respect for the shape that Steve is in. Those are beautiful woods, but tough to hike through.
@adikas65333 жыл бұрын
Steve, have you had any encounters/experience with bigfoot in all you're time being in the bush?
@crowman59363 жыл бұрын
Yeah he was riding a unicorn too.
@robertoaiello93423 жыл бұрын
I have to agree with the comedian Jon Pinette. If it's that difficult it doesn't wanna be food.
@arkaprava25613 жыл бұрын
I have just only one word for this all work --- just Just Amazing..
@paddleandhook3 жыл бұрын
will definitely stay tuned here, and see ya get another one next year!
@craigweimer9480Ай бұрын
I was born and raised in Southeast Alaska, Petersburg specifically. Best grouse hunting ive ever had is up high on logging roads when it's windy and stormy. I've found them in the Alders along logging roads. I've never had much luck trying to track them hooting
@woodsmn80473 жыл бұрын
Pine Hens is what we called them and I used to carry a Thompson Center contender with a 357 cal barrel in a shoulder holster for them while deer hunting ... better camp meat cannot be had
@nanoblock66023 жыл бұрын
This being two parts is criminal
@austinalexander40603 жыл бұрын
I think Steve smoked a joint and ate a 8th of shrooms before going hunting.
@zackglisan64003 жыл бұрын
I can’t wait for the second episode
@MrHaterplease3 жыл бұрын
Hardest I ever saw steve work for such a small bag of meat.
@georgesakellaropoulos81623 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't be able to stop myself. I'd have to chase that sound.
@TarZak3 жыл бұрын
Steve is one of my favorite people in America, and I've never met him.
@Americanstruggle3 жыл бұрын
22 lr, or magnum for the bolt action? Or am I completely off on that?
@grammoore33483 жыл бұрын
It’s 22lr. Mentioned it on the podcast
@Seakaye2s3 жыл бұрын
Let me fly out and work for free. Inspiring stuff Steve!
@underdogoutdoors3 жыл бұрын
Usually don't associate rain forests with Alaska!
@z987k3 жыл бұрын
Southeast Alaska is almost entirely temperate rain forest.
@187Whitey3 жыл бұрын
Heeeyyy he's back🙌
@akalawrey3 жыл бұрын
Now every time I go bird hunting and don't get anything I'll just say the birds were ghost chickens
@brianjohnson89183 жыл бұрын
Remind me not to go snipe hunting with Steve.
@jackiekinner38263 жыл бұрын
All the other t.v. hunters and Ashton Kutcher got together to play a prank on Rinella and are gonna jump out and scream ‘you got punked,there’s no grouse!’
@justinstroud99653 жыл бұрын
get off work friday see rinella put up new video best time ever
@kylekirkland87103 жыл бұрын
I love this show
@joanneganon71573 жыл бұрын
That's gotta drive you crazy, a true Hunter! JO JO IN VT 💕😄
@jimmyvinsonhaler16533 жыл бұрын
There’s a gas station just up the road from my house between me and my school that sells livers and gizzards and sometimes my buddies and I would ask another friend to grab us some while we were in class.
@williamutimawa9273 жыл бұрын
Awesome man
@deannwia Жыл бұрын
😂 Steve's out in the woods looking for Hooters!!
@jonathanwoodham41653 жыл бұрын
Free Range Sooty Grouse? or that yellow previously flash frozen, fed on GMO grains and pumped full of antibiotics and Piperazine wormer...Gimme the elusive humble delicacy of wild Grouse in all its variations...it is the fowl of Kings and paupers alike!
@randynystrom41313 жыл бұрын
nothing beats roaming thru the coastal rainforest
@puprilla3 жыл бұрын
Cant beat a meat eaters ep after pullin my limit of bows
@johnbell83313 жыл бұрын
Try Kake next year for hooters.
@ChrisSmith-mj4uj3 жыл бұрын
If you just skipped to 12:38 and told a non Hunter you go to the middle of nowhere and do this they’d think you had a screw loose 😂
@brianlotze58303 жыл бұрын
I lived on Prince of Wales Island in SE AK for a year. In that year I managed to only shoot one of these when I spotted it on a logging road. No three day hunt for me, but I will say that in the year I spent there it was the only one I saw or shot. I think if I'd had to go out looking for one I probably would not have done as well as Steve. It did taste good. Similar in taste to roughed grouse we have here in the interior of Alaska.
@jeffadams4590 Жыл бұрын
5:40. Good description of being on acid or eating shrooms 😆
@jackslagle20193 жыл бұрын
Man they taste so good. Fun fact we can eat our state bird the ptarmigan. Also delicious.
@cedricnora44813 жыл бұрын
That's absolutely rad!
@christianfehr86523 жыл бұрын
We see lots of those duskys in Utah. A lot of birds in general
Beautiful part of the country, they sound similar to the pheasant coucal that we have around the Kimberley region of North Western Australia
@nunyabeeswax25753 жыл бұрын
They're over in the Gulf of Carpentaria and Savannah too.
@mattysee243 жыл бұрын
Not that ud be able to see through the trees but can you use thermal scopes while hunting?
@LocHoang5803 жыл бұрын
They should rename them Sirens. Leading hunters to their demise.
@mattokeefe6913 жыл бұрын
Some of fondest memories are of roughed grouse hunts here in Alberta, Canada.
@dongchangminh81143 жыл бұрын
He is my favourite man of all time.
@mikeroberts69193 жыл бұрын
I was swatting away the skeeters just watching LOL
@josephfletcher92463 жыл бұрын
sick hunting vid
@michaelpence4683 жыл бұрын
That bird is in your mind😂
@cbcguns6313 жыл бұрын
Seventh you are the best Steven along with your show
@FinkWorldwide3 жыл бұрын
Note to self: don’t watch MeatEater part 1 if part 2 isn’t released
@Garcial232 Жыл бұрын
A few thousand dollars for a half pound bird. Glad I watched this for free lol
@nickolashaustein3 жыл бұрын
What’re you using for optics?
@D_A_D_9 ай бұрын
We used to have a sub-species of Roughed Grouse called the Missoula grouse in the Ozark and Ouachita mountains in Missouri, Oklahoma, and my home state of Arkansas. Irresponsible hunters and habitat loss wiped them out. So frustrating, as someone who desperately wants to hunt grouse but has to work for a living and can't just drive to another state to hunt.
@HollowOne3 жыл бұрын
Where from in Michigan? Been in Grand Rapids my entire life.
@ssBrodie3 жыл бұрын
he just knows where stuff is
@silverbullet74343 жыл бұрын
We have grouse in jersey , my dad called them pine pheasants. They're tuff buggers to hunt , I had one when I was stepping over a clump of brush with Indian grass flew straight up almost hitting me . He went up n over the trees I was off Balance but got a shot off missed but we laughed about it. Yes we did see that it was a grouse.
@michaelackerson16017 күн бұрын
What caliber rifle are you using?
@LetsGoAlready3 жыл бұрын
steve savage 💯
@jerrodtham3 жыл бұрын
I’m number 12 to comment 😂😂😂😂 it’s an honor sir. Seemed like turkey hunting is more easier than this.
@Burgert17763 жыл бұрын
When will part 2 be out?
@jayfox40863 жыл бұрын
Subscribe and hit the bell. Otherwise probably next Friday.
@joegreene77463 жыл бұрын
Can someone tell me what type of bullets he uses to kill this bird? Thanks.
@avadheshmalik3 жыл бұрын
As a birder, I can understand exactly what you mean by the birds being "ventriloquists" ...
@warlyansyah3 жыл бұрын
Thats bird called "Bud Bud" Many people lost on forest when trying to get move to find that bird, thats what grandpha teling me
@hollarforadollar92443 жыл бұрын
Please invite Ruth Daniels to do anything with you. He's a worthy guest hilarious and a great hunter /fisherman. He warms my soul.
@josephlucas97023 жыл бұрын
Good show
@farhanmahmudpavel25643 жыл бұрын
Only show for that I turn on notification..
@ssBrodie3 жыл бұрын
he is the best hunter
@hggarcia603 жыл бұрын
Success for who never give up congratulations on your bird
@jamesmatthews52223 жыл бұрын
LOL That custom call sounds like a Kazoo bruh!
@collinmc902 жыл бұрын
Man I wish we had a spring grouse hunt in Washington. It would be fun to hunt em with the drumming. I like hunting grouse more than just about any animal. Deer and elk obviously pay off but Grouse are just fun.
@tomford24343 жыл бұрын
FRIYAYYYY SPECIAL FAM 🦾
@breezysails3 жыл бұрын
Anyone know what caliber that rifle is?
@brianolson21713 жыл бұрын
I never ate blue grouse but I have had spruce and ruffed grouse and they are both tender and delicious. I cut the breast meat into strips, bread them, and deep fry them for a few minutes. They make the best tenders ever.