we have subsistence hunted my entire adult life (indeed my kids won't eat beef/pork - except for bacon!)
we have 9 of 11 tags filled this year so far (2 elk left)
one thing that really started to bug us several years ago was the fact that, even though we're lucky to live in a place where we can get 10-11 tags a year, we fill them all too quickly.**
** this is one of the bigger reasons we got into falconry, allowing us to hunt 3-4 days a week for 6-7 months of the year
