KYHillChick tells her friends that she has no worries; her big German Sausage Boyfriend would keep her in venison.
The truth of it is that I suspect, were the S to HTF, we'd be living off cattails, acorns and raising rats for meat after a very short time. Sure, hunting for food is cool. The deer outnumber the humans in this county. However, I'd be competing with every other guy with a deer rifle.
Around here, they tried to stock whitetails, putting in 20 per county. Some counties thrived and the herds grew. Other counties? They kept putting in deer, 20 at a time, and the next time they looked they were gone. The theory was wild dogs. The truth was the locals were stocking their freezers.
Back during the Depression, you couldn't even hear a songbird in these parts.
