Ep. 862: Moose Hunting in North Dakota, Catfish Regs, and A Bigfoot Family
The MeatEater Podcast
MeatEater
4.9 • 37.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Steven Rinella and the MeatEater crew discuss: Randall and Phil's film from BuckFest and The Big Buck Hunter Championship; Jordan Sillar's Blood Trails, Season 2 drops; a Land Access Initiative update; Etsy bans fur; how birding improves your brain health; South Dakota becomes the first state to remove suppressors from the list of controlled weapons; Pennsylvania changes to blue and flathead catfish regulations; Bigfoot sightings in Ohio; and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hey, it's Clay Newcomb here from Bear Greece, and I want to tell you about my new 12 and 26 film |
| 0:10.9 | presented by Maltry and Onyx. |
| 0:13.7 | These are 12 of meat eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year that are going |
| 0:18.6 | to be released through 2026. |
| 0:20.7 | These are long-form episodes, or what I call films, so you are going to be released through 2026. These are long-form episodes, |
| 0:23.1 | or what I call films, so you're going to get more of what you love. My film will take us |
| 0:27.6 | into the deep and cold, rugged country of southwest Utah on a lion hunt with hounds, where we |
| 0:34.6 | traveled over 80 miles and five days on mules. But the best part, I'm hunting |
| 0:39.9 | with the legendary lion hunting family, the meekums, but also one of the country's top mule men, |
| 0:46.6 | Ty Evans. This is about mules and lions. This is the kind of place where winter hangs on tight |
| 0:53.4 | and every track in the snow tells a story. |
| 0:57.0 | If you've ever wondered what it's like to pursue a mountain line in big country on muleback, then this is the episode for you. |
| 1:05.0 | Check it out now on the Meteor YouTube channel and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months. |
| 1:14.2 | Welcome to the news show on today's show. |
| 1:16.7 | We're covering the ins and outs of Buckfest, which is the National Big Buck Hunter Championship. |
| 1:22.6 | We're going to talk about how South Dakota is going all in on suppressors. |
| 1:27.5 | Etsy, like the place where you buy stuff, is the devil incarnate. |
| 1:32.1 | Pennsylvania tweaks their catfish regulations in an interesting way. |
| 1:36.2 | Spencer Newhart reports on Bigfoot's, |
| 1:39.2 | as though there's anything to say other than that's dumb. |
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