Steven Rinella Hunts His First Columbia Blacktail Deer in California

MeatEater TV Bonus Episode: Steven Rinella Hunts Mountain Lions in Idaho

This web exclusive full-length episode of MeatEater TV is brought to you by onX Hunt and only available right here or through the onX app. Visit onX for all your GPS hunting and fishing needs. Steve heads to the panhandle of Idaho to join wildlife biologist and dedicated houndsman Bart George for a mountain lion hunt. Bruce Dunkin, Bart’s mentor and hunting buddy, joins the crew as they attempt to cut a cat’s track and let the dogs loose for a...

First-Time Hunter Finds Corpse in California Desert

Kyle Gibson sat shaken and sweating in the air-conditioned patrol car’s back seat, silently hoping the two Southern California sheriff’s deputies wouldn’t arrest him. Gibson, 36, knew his fears were irrational. He’d done nothing wrong and everything right since arriving an hour before at the Bureau of Land Management desert east of Twentynine Palms. Still, just in case, he kept the squad’s rear door cracked open. That was irrational, too. The...

California Bans Fur Trapping, Rinella and Callaghan Respond

On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he had signed a bill making it illegal to trap animals for the purposes of recreation or to sell fur, making his the first state to ban trapping. “Fur trapping is a cruel practice that has no place in 21st century California,” said Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego, the bill’s author. Data from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife suggest that trapping had already lost a...