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Hunting solely for food

NMSbowhunter said:
It was said that the scariest thing you could see on the street in southern Russia during the famine of the 1920's was a well fed man.
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Read up on the Holodomor and the grim determination the Ukrainians are showing is absolutely unsurprising. Daryl Cooper has done a couple of episodes about this, on his own Martyrmade podcast and with Jocko on the Unraveling podcast.

Back to topic... if my family were restricted to what wild protein I could procure my energy would go into sport netting cisco and tullibee, then palatable rough fish, then trapping, then small game, then hunting does. I'd look for specialty hunts, like city hunts and CWD / Bovine TB zones with intensive management plans. I'd also try for as many bears as I could, for the fat content. I don't have wild swine nearby but would drive down south to fill a chest freezer with boned-out small pigs.

The thought occurs to me that we don't have to imagine apocalyptic scenarios to make a plan for this sort of possibility. Some of us remember the summer of 2022 when various governments (Canada, Netherlands, IIRC Sri Lanka) targeted farmers under the guise of environmentalism. All of a sudden, things like prohibitive taxes on livestock producers or cancelling public land grazing rights doesn't seem quite as far-fetched as they did in 2021. If 'factory meat' were taxed to luxury status, beyond the reach of the unwashed voting masses, the pressure on wild meat would be astonishing.
 
I definitely move west or south first. Where there are more games available. Bolt action .308 with tons of military surplus 7.62 rounds.

Or move north and start killing the baby seals like the Army taught me.
 
The damage feral hogs would do on the landscape in the upper Midwest would be catastrophic. But if 'factory meats' were no longer an option, and livestock producers got the squeeze, I'm absolutely certain we'd get feral hogs all over the place.
 
Sorry to ruin all yinz Daniel Boone fantasies but in a SHTF scenario deer would be practically extinct within a couple months at most unless you can defend your supply in a geographic area. My dumbass city friends are always like "if the world ends, we're coming to live with you and live off the land" and I'm like first of all, I don't get down with the prepper dweebs because nothing like that is ever happening, but secondly, if it does, it's going to be all out tribal warfare within weeks and you better bring something more to the table than flattery.

Eating game meat only as a matter of lifestyle I would need to kill a few more does a year and probably buy another freezer but not much would need to change as far as tactics or time commitment unless it was for the sake of increasing efficiency alone.
 
elk yinzer said:
Sorry to ruin all yinz Daniel Boone fantasies but in a SHTF scenario deer would be practically extinct within a couple months at most unless you can defend your supply in a geographic area. My dumbass city friends are always like "if the world ends, we're coming to live with you and live off the land" and I'm like first of all, I don't get down with the prepper dweebs because nothing like that is ever happening, but secondly, if it does, it's going to be all out tribal warfare within weeks and you better bring something more to the table than flattery.

Eating game meat only as a matter of lifestyle I would need to kill a few more does a year and probably buy another freezer but not much would need to change as far as tactics or time commitment unless it was for the sake of increasing efficiency alone.
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We could start hunting cows lol
 
I had a co-worker who started complaining that deer does not come to his 5 acres home anymore. When he first got the house 6 years ago, he usually harvested 4-5 does each year from his deck.

Well.....most likely reason is you kill them all in the area!
 
The only meat I ever buy at the store right now is bacon and I don’t even get that very often. Although I do eat out occasionally. So I wouldn’t change much in my hunting. If society collapses we are all going to die. There are way to many people and we all would turn on each other. It would be a funny contrast to all the virtue signaling now.
 
John 35 said:
The only meat I ever buy at the store right now is bacon and I don’t even get that very often. Although I do eat out occasionally. So I wouldn’t change much in my hunting. If society collapses we are all going to die. There are way to many people and we all would turn on each other. It would be a funny contrast to all the virtue signaling now.
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I would definitely stick with a bow or crossbow with the thought that it might have a lesser amount of meat spoilage. Also, if I was harvesting a lot of animals, even if legally, I wouldn't want to alert game and other hunters to my presence any more than necessary. I would probably need to get a little more proficient with a fawn bleat, and hunt doe sign rather than buck sign, just simply because where I am they are much more plentiful.
 
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