Even if life depended on it, I'd starve cuz I am way too impatient with a line and reel.... I'd have to go back to FL and spearfishing if I was going to live on fish. I can get lost in fly fishing but I am not great at it.Screw hunting, I’d be fishing. More reliable and consistent source of protein. I’d still hunt but it would be opportunity, not necessity.
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This may be a fun one... How would your hunting practices or strategy change if your harvests were the only source of meat for your family?
Agreed. I'd probably be dead living this close to DC, but assuming I'm not, we would try to get to my family's remote place in PA and probably be killed by marauders on the way. And then I'd have to figure out some slightly different deer woods. Thankfully the rivers there I know.The post-apocalyptic stuff would be pretty bleak. Even in a "clean" apocalypse like a solar flare that knocked the global power grid out for several years would get bad really fast. Anyone in a big city would be in deep dookie in a matter of days if not hours. Food would be gone from grocery stores in a matter of hours, clean water would be gone in days. Sanitation would be non-existent and looting and rioting would be the norm. Think hurricane Katrina but everywhere at once. Billions could perish within the first few months.
A dirty apocalypse like a nuclear war would be infinitely worse. You would eat anything you could get your hands on an be very happy to have it.
See now we all immediately go to firearms and crossbows thinking the weapon is more efficient. Are we also thinking about the impact? Crossbow I get but honestly, unless its a vertical crossbow like the mini, I find the "typical" crossbows unwieldly in the woods and on the stand but I haven't hunted with the new super narrow offerings from Raven et al, as they're illegal in my state. But my point is hunting impact to keep your perceived pressure down. Wouldn't selective harvest with quiet equipment equate to more long term success over the season?Think I would stop taking my stickbow into the woods and only leave the house with my crossbow during early archery. I'd also stop taking my bow into the woods after the opening of firearms.
If you're the only one hunting that area, sure. I think the assumption is there's lots of pressure because everyone is in the same boat, so getting out early and efficiently is key. Easier to kill in a 250 yard rifle radius than a 25 yard stickbow radius.See now we all immediately go to firearms and crossbows thinking the weapon is more efficient. Are we also thinking about the impact? Crossbow I get but honestly, unless its a vertical crossbow like the mini, I find the "typical" crossbows unwieldly in the woods and on the stand but I haven't hunted with the new super narrow offerings from Raven et al, as they're illegal in my state. But my point is hunting impact to keep your perceived pressure down. Wouldn't selective harvest with quiet equipment equate to more long term success over the season?