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

Normally ......yes


out the back door

Hmmmm......?

The question is; "Can you live on deer in case the SHTF?"

Well, yeah. I "can" live on venison.....but can I find/kill enough deer to maintain the people I want to support?
I dunno? Sure hope I don't have to find out! 🤷‍♂️
One season here in OK, I took and processed six (6) deer.
We also had a 16 year old nephew living with us.
About mid-May, the wife says, "I want hamburgers for dinner."
I HAD TO GO BUY GROUND MEAT!!!!!!
The "boy" (6'3" - 210# - NOT fat!) could eat like a refugee!!! 😳

Here again, ground grain, gruel.

Yeah...NO!

Only if I had to.

I told my wife that in a major crisis, we'd be eating rock chucks. Then she sent me a video on how to make 'coffee' from dandelion roots. Things will be getting serious when we have to resort to that. But, it just might come to that. No coffee is grown in the US. We're totally dependent on imports for the Joe and for tea.

I’m very glad to see folks like yourself that take this seriously!

Being prepared kinda makes me think of the expression used during the Bush administration during the early days of the terrorist’s attacks …..”they only have to be successful once”!

Much the same with some form of collapse, if you’re not prepared….. it only has to happen once! The End! 😉 memtb

Theres lots of wild edibles out there besides deer. Thanks to over protection we have an abundance of eagles, hawks, owls, crows and waterfowl. There are also lots of edible plants. Cattails, milk weed, plantain, nettles, dandelion greens, ramps, black berries, wintergreen and rose hips being but a few that grow here on my land. It might be a good idea to learn what wild edibles grow in your area.

We have a lot of Mormons around here. Their church wants everyone to have a minimum of 6 months of food on hand at all times, 2 years is better. The problem is that everyone else knows it. The Mormons say they all have guns and will fight to defend themselves again food raids, but no homeowner can hold off a gang alone for very long. They depend on their church friends to help them but while those friends are helping, their unguarded homes are being raided.

I remember a Cajun friend waxing enthusiastic about his grandma's Robin pie....ingredients harvested with a BB gun.

No, and no, how fragile are the growing and storage of them ? We burned so many tons of rice fifty years ago .

I hope that our 200 or so pounds of rice doesn’t meet the same fate! Stored in sealed Mylar bags with moisture and O2 packets, in sealed 5 gallon buckets. I’m hoping they have a long shelf/storage life!

I’m thinking that a good, well seasoned Rock Chuck Gumbo over rice would be pretty darn good! 😉 memtb

You may not like that Rock Chuck started this thread memtb, but, cannibalism? c'mon memtb.

I started grinding my deer last year, three so far, and it's all we use when ground beef it called for, I do add some pork so it's not official "deer" but it would not be much of a sacrifice to give up on beef/pork if I had to.

😂😂😂 I hadn’t thought of that when I made my comment! 🙀 I was only thinking of the cute, little furry kind of Rock Chucks! 😉😂 memtb

My Dad grew up in the depression in Northern Minnesota ........venison is about all that they ate for years.

Who’s to say Rock Chuck is t cute and furry?

The point of the OP is how long the deer/hog/rodent population will last before being depleted beyond use. Rodents - indefinitely. Hogs - quite a while. Deer - weeks.

I fed my family deer meat for thirty years, probably only ate 15 percent of other meat’s, we are overrun with deer on ranch, problem would be saving them for us, city people would be everywhere if things went south.

That’s a very good point! I guess that I pictured him as old, tuff, with lots of gristle! 😂 memtb