Video: 3 MSU Students Get Their Own Hunting Show

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STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) — Three Starkville hunters are now making national television with their own hunting show and they’re still in college. We sat down with some of the hunters to find out how they juggle college with a television career.

Twenty-two year old Tyler Owen of Starkville, has spent countless of hours in the woods with a camera in one hand and a gun in the other. Little did he know, his hobby would soon become something more.

“We were online TV show with a small company out of south Mississippi and we went to a trade show in Hattiesburg and that’s where we met Hunter the CEO of Sparta Outdoors,” says Tyler Owen.

Owen and his friends, Justin Breland and Chase Harris, quickly became a part of the Spartan Outdoor team. The group traveled to states like Kansas and Arkansas to capture their hunts on camera. Less than a year later, the group found themselves on the Sportsman Channel.

Team member, Chase Harris says the group works together shooting, editing and creating a television quality show.

“From our owner to our producer to the guys working getting things done and hunting and field producing, we’re all that age and we’re doing it ourselves,” says Chase Harris.

When Owen and Harris aren’t hunting down big game, they’re focusing on their studies.

“Late nights a lot of time in the library studying. A lot of days awake 48 hours… 72 hours straight a lot of times. A lot of coffee,” says Owen.

“It still gets in the middle there…trying to study and turn homework in, do quizzes and tests and everything else. It can be stressful at times but we all make it balance out try the best way we can,” says Harris.

Owen says Spartan Outdoors was created through a mutual love for hunting, but says CEO, Hunter Harris, created the organization to impact the young viewers.
“Just our personalities on the TV show and just our love for what we are doing we think is going to help promote youth involvement to get out then get off the couch, quit playing your video games, quit studying so much and go hunt enjoy what God created,” says Owen.

“That’s what it is all about really is to give back and try to enjoy the outdoors with other people and have a good time, especially get more youth involved in the outdoors,” says Harris.

So as these young college students head to the woods, they only hope their love for hunting becomes contagious to their viewers.

All episodes are filmed and produced by the Spartan Outdoor team members.