Steve Makes the Team: Kentucky Small Game | S6E09 | MeatEater
Steve Makes the Team: Kentucky Small Game | S6E09 | MeatEater
Kevin Murphy and his band of Kentucky small game hunters introduce Steve to the finest Kentucky has to offer. Gray squirrels with tree hounds and cottontails with beagles, in Kentucky, it’s the dogs that do the hunting. Cathead biscuits, sawmill gravy, and fried small game round out the Kentucky adventure.
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I thought he was gonna say the only way to go after squirrels is to become a squirrel yourself. But no, it was the thing about the dog, which does make sense.
Man’s best friend
Brought back fond memories.
Best episode ever
The beagles looked like minions running chasing after the rabbits
I love that people like this still exist.
Butchy has pitbull in him
They like crunching skulls
As a Western KY native, Kevin is my hero. Love watching episodes with him in it.
I love Kevin as he named his dogs Poochie Bad Toe and Bobby Jango. Priceless. Such a good show! 🐾🐾😎
Rewound that intro four times to rewatch "the rabbit hater" jumping up n down 🤣🤣🤣
They should rename the swamp rabbit scientific name to Big Chungus
I would like to see more of Kevin, seems likea really cool guy.
Awesome
I have squirrel hunted for years and do the tail method but his slow pull and stop for the legs is amazing I will definitely try that
Nothing better than a happy beagle.
What breed of dogs are they?
Wasnt there an episode Steve was chastising someone for hunting squirrel with a shotgun? Now hes using one?
my first squirrel didn’t taste good… does anyone have a detailed recipe they’d care to share?
One of my favorite KM Episodes, wish we’d see him more. Love his bull horn!
I can’t get enough of this show the podcast is good too
Man I love this show
Small game is a hunt all of itself
Stay close in there! If you know you know.
I agree Steve. I love squirrel. My Dad did not like to eat it but he loved to hunt them. So when we went squirrel hunting he always ate some just to show us kids that if you shoot it, you eat it. If you don’t eat it, don’t shoot it.
Steve,
Ask Mr. Kevin Murphy about getting you in connection with using a air rifle that is readily available from Joe Keith owner of Kentucky Regulators Gun Club and gun shop. Wholeheartedly believe itd Be a great opportunity for a great team to all get together and have some fun
Can someone please tell me what pants Steven is wearing in this episode?
This guys definitely got some killer UFO stories.
Glad to see you were in my neck of the woods. I live about 15 minutes from LBL and spend a lot of time fishing and camping there.
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I’m looking for people in fort Collins Colorado, that know good small hunting spots… Help please 🙏🏾
Love this episode but those don’t look like any swampers I ever seen. The ones I’ve hunted are a dark brown with short ears and web feet. Some run a long ways but others only hop in a small circle often running logs and swimming creeks
6:33
"So when he passes that head, what form is he passing it?"
I swear, Steve is obsessed with animal shit lmao
What a fun time!!
festooned lol
I love small game!
Can not get enough of this guy and all the content he makes
I squirrel hunted once or twice as a child, didn’t get into hunting as an adult until I was almost 30 years old. My 11 year old son has already gotten the bug and as our deer season closed yesterday, with just 2 tags left (I only the pulled the trigger on one deer in the last 2 seasons, at this point I’m just a driver and lookout 😎). Two weeks from yesterday my son and I are going on out first squirrel hunt as father and son as we both learn to be squirrel hunters, together, and for the rest of our lives. Thank you for what you do Steve, and everyone you feature in your episodes. It truly is a treasured tradition and lifestyle that I hope my son enjoys with his grandchildren long after I’m gone.
Steve, I’m loving the small games videos and the dove hunting. Lots of action and seeing the dogs work. Working dogs love to work for their Hunter.
what kind of dogs are these??? please help. need one asap!
Great limb rat hunting. Nothing better than a well trained dog and my daddy and grandpa could train a dog so well that he or she would only run or tree whatever they was trained to do. I had a puppy and he was 8 weeks old when my daddy took him on his first squirrel hunt. Daddy would sit along the way and let the dog watch the squirrel and naturally the dog or dogs wouldn’t be fed the night before because they would get rewarded with certain parts of the inners. But daddy killed eight squirrels that day and just put the inners next to the bottom of the tree where the squirrel was shot. But wolf, my puppys name didn’t make it back home till the next day. Daddy never had to train that pup again. Wolf took to it like he’d been hunting squirrels for years. But that weekend we didn’t feed him and that morning he was sitting at the front door with his tail wagging. We took off to turkey creek over in Silas Alabama where I grew up but my dad was born there and my great grandfather was given any two counties of land he wanted when the war was over. He picked Clark and Choctaw county. But we killed 16 squirrels that morning between our house and grandpas three miles away. Wolf always ran a big circle out in front and he bark twice when he found a fresh scent and he would blow up barking when he found the squirrel. He loved fresh liver lungs and heart and kidneys and leave the rest. After daddy was murdered in 68 that’s the last I ever seen of my dog and all my daddy’s guns and my new long Tom 12 gauge 3 inch magnum single shot my grandpa bought me. I was 11. That’s one reason I love your show so much it reminds me of all the times daddy took me hunting and taught me most everything I know now except for a few great things I’ve picked up on my own along the way. Thanks for bringing back all my great memories of me and my daddy,, and best friend. Thanks so much.
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Tomorrow my wife’s gonna ask me what I want for lunch. I have no idea how she’s gonna get some squirrels but that’s what I want.
I just wanna say Im a young hunter and I appreciate this show so much. Ive watched it over and over and I aspire to be like you and everyone in your vids. Thankyou🙏🏻
Never knew you came so close to me
Aside from the cooking specials, this is my favorite episode of the series. I’ve watched this episode over and over again for years.
I just love this show, especially this episode. Everyone has small game hunting stories from their youth. It’s just plain American. And that meal with home brew at the end was divine.
I would love to know what bell you are running (answers from anyone are appreciate)
I made some from the bells you hang on your door but they aren’t that loud
God hoe much I miss hunting I need to get back in the woods
New to hunting and I have a possum problem on my property. What’s the best route to go on a budget when looking for air rifles?
Anybody have an idea of who makes that strap vest Steve is wearing?