I expected more people to try to offset the cost of meat with hunting this year but I haven't heard many shots in my area.
Maybe the cost of hunting ammo slowed things down as well.
I can buy a lot of beef for what I spend hunting every year. And beef is 100% success rate. LOL
I put six deer in the freezer last season and spent less than 200.00 including license/tags, gas and cartridges.
I guess it just depends and where/why/what.
On our place we've killed as many as 10 deer in a year[100+/- acres] and you wouldn't even know we were hunting them.
When our son was at college and living off campus venison WAS his protein.
He'd come home and kill 1-2 every weekend, cut, pack and take back as much as he had freezer room for along with enough to make jerky around the clock for he and friends.
