Ex 'Idol' Star Kristy Lee Cook Scores a Hunting Reality Show

"American Idol" introduced Kristy Lee Cook to America. Now the country singer is hoping that hunting will make her an American household name.

This weekend, Cook debuted her new reality series, "Goin’ Country" on cable network Versus, where cameras chronicle the singer’s struggle to get a record deal while also following her on a series of hunting expeditions across the country.

It’s the classic American story of a girl, her guitar, and her gun.

She’s only been hunting for six years, but Cook already has an eagle eye. Just last month she took down a black bear that had been getting into mischief in her horse barn in Eagle Point, Oregon.

“That bear had been causing trouble for five nights, eating grain and spooking my horses. He was making a mess of the whole barn,” Cook said. “One night I was walking in the house and I saw something standing in the door of my barn and I got him in one shot.”