Mark Kenyon & Ryan Callaghan Show a New Hunter the Ropes | S1E08 | Back 40
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ม.ค. 2025
- After five months of dedication to the Back 40 for Mark Kenyon, every corner of the property is connected to a lesson. Luckily, there’s still one more chance to capitalize on everything learned this year. Joining Mark for the final hunt of the season is MeatEater’s conservation director Ryan “Cal” Callaghan, and his good friend Anna Borgman, a first-time hunter who grew up in a small town in Oregon. Anna is a part of a program called the Good Meat Project where she teaches butchering classes and promotes an honest approach to eating farm-raised meat. In the final episode of season one, Cal and Mark show Anna the ropes.
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Callahan is the best when teaching newbies. Hes so patient and encouraging. Plus being laid back as he is helps
"It's a beautiful world, if you wanna live in ignorance. 'My actions have no impact.' But that's just not the case."
It's quotes like this that make meat eater MUCH more than just a hunting channel!
Especially with Ryan. The 'Stache holds much wisdom!
Watching Cal talk about trees reminded me of the Lorax. Had to giggle. Love the Back 40.
This was a fun series!
Regarding starting small engines...They can be moody and difficult. But from my lawnmower engines on mud motors to my old 2 stroke Tundra snowmachine, my dad's system seems to work pretty good, especially in cold weather or when the machine hasn't been run for a while and the fuel has a ways to travel before it gets to the cylinder.
Make sure all the fuel valves are open, if the particular machine has them. Leave the kill switch turned off, and pull the engine over a few times. Don't just rip the cord either, get it engaged first then pop it. When it's a very cold snowmachine, I give it as much as 10-15 pulls or until it loosens up, you can tell by how easy or hard it pulls. When it's just a cold engine that hasn't run, maybe a half a dozen pulls to engage the fuel pump (if so equipped) and get fuel moving. After the warm up pulls, if the engine isn't equipped with a primer give it full choke and pull it a few times with the switch still turned off. If it does have a primer, give it a few pumps (you'll feel the fuel flowing, there'll be minimal resistance if the system is dry or not functioning) and turn on the switches and give her a yank. Again, don't just rip the cord, slowly pull it out a bit until you fell the recoil engage. This is also how I've come to start my Stihl chainsaws, other brands might start easier.
Again, I'm enjoying all the TH-cam series, thanks for putting them out, be safe out there!
I psych'd up and worked as an "anatomical specialist" at the Baylor College of Medicine prosecting, for art and science, in the mindset of Leonardo, learning what made people look like they do. Dead bodies, however, still cause a shiver down my spine and I'm only beginning to think of processing game as a part of my life to come. Thank you for helping me prepare to live as the thoughtful hermit God intended. Peace.
I have never hunted in my life but watching meat eater on Netflix and then finding this channel on TH-cam has made me want to experience it. The reason i want to go hunting is the respect that is given to the land and animal. I am 44 years old hope it not to late for me. Thank you meat eater cast for showing me there is more to my food than a pre- wrapped package.
I started hunting for the meat/food as well, like Anna. Now I've put several deer in my freezer and I have Meateater and Steve Rinella to thank for much of that!
You can't beat it. It's so delicious.
When you started, did you do similar to what they did in this episode? Just sight in your rifle and set out to hunt like they did for Anna? I ask because I always assumed the process to going from sighting in your gun to actually going hunting was a much more long, drawn out process than this in which one goes to the range a ton before, but that's coming from someone new and her position. Would you recommend I copy this method, or practice a ton first before I go? Please let me know since it would be a HUGE help! I'm new to the sport and eager to learn!
@@henrypacheco1002 So sorry I missed this comment months ago! I actually started deer hunting with a bow, which meant I did a ton of research about what to buy, practiced (and got help at archery stores) for a full year, and started hunting in my second year. That first year of actual hunting (sitting in my own tree stands on 30 acres) was valuable, but I didn't get a deer (a big doe) until my third year. I still mainly hunt with a compound bow, but I have also gotten two deer with a 30-06 rifle. Turning yourself into a hunter takes time - I would not rush it and it isn't simple (in my opinion) to do it right. Huge luck to you.
"I have my way of doing things, which means i have a lot to learn"
thanks Cal!
Love the show and everyone involved in MeatEater. Not to be critical, just truthful. Having a new hunter on and someone wanting to learn to hunt, teach them how to hunt (prepare, track, evaluate the signs, shoot at different angles, a deer's body language, wind, the terrain). Not just go sit in a tent and shoot a deer when it walks out. ...She seems like a very nice woman (Thumbs up to Ryan), but you kinda tossed her under the bus. For being a butcher, she certainly looked like "a deer in the headlights" when you asked her to show you two some butchering tips..Again guys, love the shows, just being truthful..thanks for the all your efforts and look forward to future videos. Keep on trucking, Flint
Can you link your channel on butchering tips? Just so we can see how you would do it also, make sure there are lots of cameras in your face, a few producers, and a couple hunting gurus watching closely. I'll be waiting.
Cal is the Bob Ross of hunting. I love this guy.
Between the Netflix series and the TH-cam channel I’ve got endless outdoors content to watch. Long live meat eater 🙏
What a great series! I can’t wait for next year! You guys have given me so much inspiration for my own life and I can’t thank you enough. Keep up the great work!
This by far has been my favorite series to watch.
the Back 40 is definitely one of our favorite playlists!
Appreciate the knowledge and sharing the process for anyone with an internet connection.
Got my wife addicted to the show! Thanks for all the work you all put into this!
Living in michigan and watching the series almost feels like the back 40 is connected to me ha. Love the series.
The back 40 , what a place to be!. Living in Australia we dont really have anything like this . Cant wait for next season
Keep up the great work
Cool show! That time with your dad was amazing and priceless. Growing up in west Michigan my dad/grandpa hunted around Muskegon area and didn’t do much. I now hunt in south ms and just took my first last year. These shows have been so educational and just cool!
Great stuff guys, absolutely love what you are doing with this channel! This is the reality for a lot of Michigan hunters, small plots or State land but the rewards of having your own piece would add so much to the love of the hunt.
Loved watching this whole process and journey. Great job Mark. Cant wait till next year. Bigger and better things are coming.
Been waiting hours for this to come back up!
I got super excited for the butchering lesson to learn something new and then it was a letdown. Like Cal said I have my way of doing things and theres plenty of room for learning. I wish they would show the tips and tricks of a skilled butcher. I processed my first Oryx this year and it was a total learning experience and I realized I need to learn more.
I said the same thing. The episode was about new beginners and learning. There was very minimal learning when there could've been way more
@@sicsempertyrannis3669 It was also odd that the teacher didn't know how to skin the animal before you start cutting … which leaves you with? Trying to eat it like an apple while spitting out the hair?
Worth the wait, love the show and you guys/gals! Thanks for another great year. Fingers crossed that farm is mine!! Lol
Oh man this just makes me appreciate more what I know and what my 70 year old dad has taught me growing up and I'm only 28 . Family of 10
Great Stuff, nothing better than sharing a connection with your land
Enjoying The Back 40, from inception to final hunt for the season.
Good stuff Mark! 👌🏼
I enjoyed that you utilized a road kill deer for the show I don't care what anyone else says that is great. Showing the shot placement on an actual deer was excellent as well. Great series folks! Ole Cal looks dapper in his STIHL Cheek Chillers!
Man I love this fuckin show ..what a great group of people living the actual dream
Damn good show fellas cant wait for next season and ive learned alot from watching you develop the land as im doing the same thing in southern illinois one thing that i always keep in mind is every action has a reaction and every decision has a consequence
Great job, keep it up. Hunting is eating local for sure.
It was cool to see Anna be upbeat after coming up empty handed. That’s like a right of passage for a new hunter, along with a missed shot or two and getting busted by the wind. I hope she continues to hunt and appreciate the difficulty of hunting, as well as the skills she’ll no doubt develop as she overcomes those difficulties. I would have liked a bit more from the butchering end though, with some more tips or pointers on which cut is which. It would be cool to get that info while seeing her cut those out. Still, love the series.
I love everything u all doing so cool . Keep great stuff coming thanks ya be safe.
You guys are doing everything right with this new series and your brand in general. Keep it up. I just got the cookbook as a Christmas gift and am looking forward to trying a few recipes out with the kids this week.
I remember as a kid in the late 70s my family would take in meat to have Venison Summer Sausage made. But ever since I was outta high school I've been making all my own everything. Sausage, jerky, snack stix, brat's and so on. I take pride in the fact that from the "Kill to the Grill" nobody's hands touch that meat but mine. So glad I grew up in a family of hunter's.
Loved back 40....mark killed it.
Ryan "The Stache" Callahan is the man!!
Would love to hunt with him on a Montana elk hunt.
That road kill deers foot is out of a cartoon! Lol
This was a great episode in both concept and execution.. I've been hunting for 21 years and was able to learn a couple tips thru the butchering piece... Sounds like a great program as well. Thanks guys! (And lady 😄)
Did I miss something? She didn't teach anything about butchering. Just cut off the shoulder meat and rolled it up?
Seriously love the content and support the channel!
Love meat eater keep up the awesome work and also love the awesome information you share
I work in Oregon and all Oregonians ever talk about is how our food systems don't work. NO ONE is starving in Oregon. If you can afford to be as picky as they are its not exactly broken! It's nauseating
Well done series. Appreciate it
Love it. Making Michiganders proud
Oh michigan in December, some spots have 5 feet of snow and some have green grass lol
Texas in December you can hunt in a T-shirt. ;D
Welp, just learned a hell of a lot! Great series and project!
all things considered: ( multiple state licenses, land rights, tag draws etc. all while not guaranteeing a kill) it seems the hardest show to consistently produce quality footage would be a hunting show. but not only do we get quality netflix seasons consistently, we get multiple cannot miss you tube series. these guys changed the game big time. would love to see another installment of das boat or any similar fishing series. and i cant wait for the next back 40. man i wanna run my bird dog through those woods.
That's better. Love all things meateater!!!
Victor Hopper I love being vegan
Man you guys have done an amazing job!!!!
Love Back 40! Hopefully it will be mine soon ;)
I'm going to miss this show once you give it away. I want to see the fruits of all the labor.
"mid-western lead slead" lmao!
Love what y’all are doing here!!!!
Can you do a video on your tree saddle setup?
Our family loves this program and although we don't know you feel like we do. Growing up in Michigan and now living the last 20 in Oregon your program hits home often. We have something mature we want to say.
Ryan's got a girlfriend, Ryan's got a girlfriend. Lol
One of the primary tensions of the show (and akin to what Leopold addressed in his writings) is how and for what purpose do we manage a small individual acreage in an ecologically fractured land base. Duren brought this up when he asked what the ultimate "time frame" for the project was. Do you manage this small land area for multiple "trophy" bucks or do you manage it in a way that somewhat mimics what "Nature" would do in the absence of humans. (A salient question: What would the density of mature bucks be per section (640 ac) in this ecosystem if it was not impacted by humans?) I hope Mark determines and elucidates his primary goal for this piece of the planet. I sincerely admire what this team is striving to explore: How do we become responsible, non-selfish, multi-generational stewards of this land (including human consumptive use of the resource base) in a legal, cultural, and economic system that fosters and rewards a world view that places primacy on relatively short-term human needs. Please keep asking the questions and exploring potential answers. It's important.
Well put
Part of your statement doesn't apply. It is impossible to equate the carrying capacity of the land here with that of untouched wilderness; even for the subgroup of "mature bucks". The land here is either uninhabitable by deer (covered by roads, buildings, etc) or made up of agricultural fields with small patches of woods, waterways, and wetlands mixed in. It has already been irretrievable altered from the beech, oak, maple forests that likely predominated this part of the state when settlers arrived; before they had an impact on the ecosystem. Which is good for deer hunters, since the deer population in Michigan alone likely exceeds that of the entire country back in colonial days.
That being said, management for a large number of trophy bucks would likely center on harvesting more does and cull-bucks, and simply letting those bucks with promise live to be 4 1/2 years or older. That is something that simply cannot be done without the cooperation of pretty much all of the landowners within a couple square miles. My best advice would be to farm it, while leaving quality bedding cover and providing some late-season food plots for the deer's use. Harvest some does and odd-antlered "culls" and let the promising bucks pass. Every few years you will likely get a good buck; provided that you do everything right.
It would be interesting to see an aerial view of the property and talk about why the trails/ plots were cut where they were cut and why. Which forage was planted in different sections and why. Where were the stands hung and why? So on and so forth.
Can't wait for next season!
I saved my second poop to watch the second version! Alright here goes nothing.
Careful, if Steve see's your poop he'll track ya down lol.
Same....
21 minute poop.... you might want to see a doctor.
@@bluesteel8376 21 minutes is nothing. gotta pump those numbers up.
My legs are asleep
Great series! Can't wait to win it...
Great series! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I thought I was going crazy when I went to watch this and it was gone the first time.
Mentioning small properties could be looked at as a deer garden, that was great. I hunt and manage a similar property in Central Michigan and when Cal said that, it made a lot of sense.
There really isn't much difference between the deer and the rest of the animals - except they feed and water themselves and you have to wait for them to show up in order to harvest them. This year my father took a nice 6-point about sixty yards from the barn it got hung up in (until I could process it) and I took one a couple years back about fifty yards from the freezer it was destined for. Just try to remember to balance the harvest, make a quick, clean kill, and take no more than you will use.
T/c Impact: the thinking and working hunter’s muzzleloader. Good pick, Anna.
I love first time hunters doing there job write with seasoned hunters in hand good stuff & video keep it up
Agreed. But Kent, change 'write' to 'right' in your comment FYI. Cheers from Canada.
I love Ryan.
“Stop moving there’s a whitetail!”
* raises up arm and points*
love it all!
I've been checking back for a while... Finally!
Seriously!!! Supposed to be weekly... I need me some back 40!!!
Hanging? We use this trough-looking apparatus. Lay the animal on the back. Ring the legs, cut the hide, ring the forelimbs (this eliminates bone shards), have the hind hanging off the trough a bit: the weight helps expose the ball joints to get the hams off. Cut the shoulders off. Roll over stomach down, and trim out the backstrap. Remove the head. Done.
Cal needs his own show
He has a podcast.
Great video thanks for sharing.
New Years Eve, and still no snow in Mi?! Crazy!
Thanks for reposting!
Can’t get over how much Mark looks like Dylan Larkin.. two true Michigan men
This series is great
We need a back 40 doe, drawn hunt!!!
Damn that was fun!
Awesome video mark !!
Good job, men. I’m always pleased to watch your endeavors and thank you for filming them, though I have wondered what your day jobs were before embarking on the Eater, B40, bottling, etc. I assume Steve, Yanis, Ryan, and Mark all have diverse personal aims and I (others?) might enjoy very much a “commupance” piece i.e. what you did before this brainchild was conceived. Especially for those of use who had a hard time with our senior research papers 😬
6:28 Take a gander at dem whiskas there, all glistenin in the sun n shit. Hot damn!
Bad ass as always!
WE THE PEOPLE!!!
Is there an extended version of this? Seems like you could re-cut the footage into a more detailed butchering. Would love to see it.
Mr. Callaghan always seems to look cold!
It's winter in the northern midwest man, of course he's freezing his nads off haha.
Great episode. Do you have a recipe to share for that boned out shoulder loin? I did this recently with a front shoulder - any recommendations are helpful :) Thank you!!
Reminds me of my families property out here in eastern Washington state. We lost almost everything to the Hart road fire granted, but your statement of "theres a lot more work to be done and for little payoff" is too true. Mother nature is a very tough bitch. Awesome to see how you utilize your neck of the woods guys.
Another good source for butchering game is YT channel Scott Rea. He’s a butcher by trade. I’ve learned a lot from his channel.
Mark I’m going to take good care of the back 40 when I win it buddy.
We need more episodes on Netflix please
Very appreciative to see the meat eater folks using proper chainsaw PPE!
I need more meat eater!!
First timers: don't try a front roast like that! It is a piece that needs a meat magician. Please, have Rinella do a couple magical things with that tied front roast! A tied up front roast like that with all the silver skin on it will be the last venison dinner most first timers will ever try. Have Rinella redeem that puppy!! #unnecessarygamey
I wish you would do this with a property in NE Iowa or SW Wisconsin
I don’t understand why someone would fly to another state to hunt but only allow yourself a couple days.
I only wish I could afford to own a piece of land like this. Until then, this is a great way to learn how others do it.
When can we expect the next ep of back40?
Series seems to have disappeared. Weren't they filming this year; with a guest-hunt to be featured? Weren't they also holding a drawing for the title to the Farm? An update would be appreciated.
The second i get in my stand i feel dooped
With that shot placement advice.....she will be gut shooting deer in no time.