Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Could you live on deer in a major crisis?

Maybe so but Mexicans would surely make great Tacos

And Chinks are good with rice.

Good point, I'm still pondering on the possible differences between white and dark meat.

Paul might know..

Well, I have heard, that they are all pink, on the inside !

It's called bush meat, the stuff they make covid from.

It's hard to say.

I live on wild game 99% now with no crisis... I buy bacon from time to time.

Gets that bad you will hear of ranchers and farmers losing pork, beef, and sheep wholesale. Nobody will have the gas to go far for deer.

Farmers and Ranchers will have to defend their livestock.

Pinto Beans, turnip greens and corn bread. A chicken now and then. Raise a hog. My mom was so poor they ate potatoes and onions until they ran out of potatoes. Onions two or three times a day. No deer. No gun. No shoes. No car. No mama. No problem.

We have a lot of BLM land around here with lots of cattle grazing. They'd disappear faster than the deer since its so easy to get within range. Many of the ranchers are experienced shooters, though, and hiding a body out there would be very easy.

And them ranchers better have plenty of sharp eyed , armed sons and daughters for 24/7/365 guarding of that livestock. At that point in time living close to town will not be an asset. Mb

It is my understanding that hogs were also kept in check in East Texas back in the depression. With regards to deer I’m pretty sure even they got shot out most places back East even while muzzleloaders were still in common use.

Deers turkeys squirrels rabbits groundhogs and rogue cows I see daily I’ll be fine

I have been feeding my family on venison since the 1980s. One thing about the OP's post that needs to be pointed out is that the vast majority of the populations in the states he highlights will live in the big cities and when the SHTF many of those people will die very quickly due to panic and stupidity and dead people don't eat deer.

I would love that get in in this rant again, but I am drunk in Ft. Davis at this time ordering yet another gin & tonic.


Goodnight [bleep]!

And yes i bought on round for the bar!!!

A small bar I hope?

By the way, ever see a drunk skunk?

Consider that deer, elk, and turkeys (not to mention buffalo) were almost completely wiped out east of Appalachia before 1800, and nearly wiped out east of the Mississippi by 1850.

The population then was NOWHERE NEAR what it is now, imagine the destruction that could be wrought on wildlife by the population today.

And people aren't taking into consideration that ''everybody'' will be a hunter. And they're not going by any rules, spotlighting +++, they'll do anything everything they can to get something. They'll light thick woods ablase and shoot or run over anything that comes out. There won't be a day go by that anywhere meat might be -they'll be after it.
Where are hogs going to go to escape dozens of people roaming the countryside -nowhere that's where. No one will give a ratzass about someones property lines - if the sounder of hogs went that-ah-way they stay after them. An empty belly and starving children will create a very dangerous world to survive in.
It takes a lot of calories to spend the day chasing something to eat compared to sitting around at work.
Talking about canning meat and such is a fairy tale in a full on collapse of society.
People who think they can protect their chickens/goats/cows/black lab better think again, they better be well armed and willing to kill someone on the spot.