FFOD289 : The History of Hunting the Country

Fist Full of Dirt

Ronnie Strickland

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Back in the mid 90s we launched an outdoor TV show called Hunting the Country on TNN. Nobody knew it at the time, but it went on to run for two decades and became one of the longest standing hunting shows on national television.

What made it different? We kept it about regular folks, relatable hunts and real stories. Judging by the response when I asked if you wanted to hear the full story, a lot of you still remember setting the VCR and watching with your dad. This week I’m taking you behind the scenes of how Hunting the Country came to be, what made it work and why it still means so much to people today.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Fistful of Dirt, the official podcast of Mossy Oak Properties.
0:10.1	Whether you own a small farm, lease land, or just love hanging in your backyard.
0:15.6	We're all about the outdoor lifestyle and how to get the most from your time in God's great outdoors. Now here's your host, Ronnie Cus Strickland. It's in my live from the Camel Cave Cave. North. It's in my life. Camel Cave North. A lot going on out here. There's a lot going on. Yeah. I know you'll hear this on a Tuesday, but right before we recorded this we were shooting and had a little video
0:38.2	shoot out here i missed those days i know the good old days yeah had rusty and tatum and uh
0:43.3	preston out here and they were shooting some stuff and and uh needed me to be on camera i was like
0:49.2	man y'all are absolutely hard up for some camera talent. But anyway, speaking of missing things.
0:56.8	In the good old days.
0:58.0	In the good old days.
0:58.9	That's right.
1:00.0	And look, I made a post.
1:02.5	I get tired.
1:03.2	I listen to a lot of podcasts.
1:04.6	Sometimes I've had enough of how to do the food plot, do it, do it.
1:08.9	It's like, I'm just, you know, I just get enough.
1:13.1	I'm, I'm overloaded with that right now.
1:16.1	I had two comments back to back.
1:18.3	When I was up there doing the podcast with How to Barbecue Right, Malcolm Reed,
1:22.9	I was on their podcast called Buck Junkies, and man, they wanted to know all about back in the day hunting the country.
1:30.4	Because a lot of people grew up on that.
1:32.3	Yeah.
1:33.0	And I was like,
1:33.7	I thought,
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