How hard would it be to live off hunting your own food?

>>2822109 (OP)
you might be able to do it if you hunted birds and big game and rabbits n shit. also fishing would help alot. do you consider fishing to be hunting?

>>2822109 (OP)
Depends on where you live. How many tags can you buy/draw and how expensive are they. How long and when the hunting seasons are. If you have a high hog population, you could probably live off of that.

>>2822109 (OP)
>rabbit starvation

>>2822109 (OP)
Only close to easy on a coast where you can forage the shoreline.

>>2822109 (OP)
Nearly impossible, you need nutrients other than meat.

Virtually impossible. You need to be insanely talented and have years of hard experience, which you probably aren't and don't

>>2822109 (OP)
You can get 200-400lbs of meat off of an Elk- that could last you a year if you had a decent freezer.

>>2822109 (OP)
Maybe Alaska or Wyoming or some other rural areas in the Northwest using the various seasons like bear season. Unless you're talking about poaching, then you'll need to draw tags to keep the freezer stocked all year. Texas too maybe since you can kill wild hog all year, but only the smaller ones taste good. Like the other anon said, you'd be better off focusing on small game in other areas using traps.

>>2822198
Do you realize how much calories are in a large animal? 1 cow has enough calories to feed 1 person for about a year. Sure, you won't find a lot of wild cows when you go out hunting, but it goes to show how many calories animals have. 1 large deer can feed you and your entire family for a pretty long time. A small deer would probably be enough to feed a family for a week.

>>2822192
Dietitian here, this is objectively not true. Animals contain all essential nutrients that humans need. Have you never heard of indigenous people like the Inuit that survive on solely animal foods?

>>2822255
NTA... One cow can last a year if you're eating other stuff too. But, if it's all you're eating, it goes pretty quickly. I fluctuate between keto and carnivore and I go through a half steer(300lbs of meat) in about 3-4 months. That's not eating beef every meal of every day either. I have fish at least once every other day as well, usually wild caught pacific salmon. I'll also go through at least a quarter of a hog at the same time. Dozens of eggs, a few gallons of raw goat milk. All in a 3-4 month span, just me. I also intermittent fast, so I'm only eating two meals a day within a 6 hour window and spend the rest of the time fasted.


>>2822192
I've gone over a year on carnivore alone. All of my lab markers improved. I do take a methyl multivitamin and essential amino, just to cover my bases. But they're not really necessary. When you stop consuming carbs, your vitamin needs are greatly reduced. Fresh beef alone has enough vitamin C to prevent scurvy. Frozen is still "fresh" if it's eaten within a couple months. But salting, drying and other long term preservation techniques will break down the vitamin C and that's where you'll need to supplement.

>>2822253
a hunting license in arkansas cost $25 for 6 deer tags, 2 turkey tags and all small game. bow season is from oct-march and squuirrel is year round. a fishing license is $10.

>>2822255
Sure. Can you consistently catch a small deer a week? Do you know how to transport and butcher it? Do you know how to store the meat properly?

>>2822109 (OP)
If I developed a taste for squirrels, I have an unlimited supply.

>>2822109 (OP)
very easy, fishing is the important one. remember to forage some berries and dry them to use them throughout the year.

>>2822314
I have family down south who claim that squirrel stew is DIVINE. 2-3 squirrel to a large pot on the stove is apparently good eating

>>2822255
Plus look up Native American traditional crafts and living for your area.
It's mostly similar for tribes all over.
Hunt animal. Eat meat as you can
Dry meat and it will last for years.
Save rendered fats and oil from cooking meat and mix with dry ground up seeds and berries. Salt is precious and goes into everything, not monster amounts but a teaspoon portion and mash it all together for a meal 'cake' you can eat as is or bake little.
Toss dry stuff you saved in a pot with water and you have a stew.
Wild plants foraging takes some work but is seasonal and gives you food and medicine as you wander.
People have lived well for centuries on wild foods and hunting, passing knowledge generation to generation.
Thank the anthropologist for visiting the old old Indian and writing something down. Learn from it. We are in the generations too.
T. Native who learned from elders and words saved in books.

>>2822257
Yup. Remember that Glenn Villanew guy? He was on a show and Rogan. Are organs and fat. Also the greens / cud from the stomachs.

>>2822257
>be dietician
>doesn't know about the specific adaptations in inuit for eating only meat
>doesn't know the inuit eat plants half the year
>doesn't know the fat content of sea animals is much higher than terrestrial
Not surprised, dieticians don't really learn a lot about nutrition.

>>2822169
This would be the reverse of rabbit syndrome but similar results.

>>2822169
protein starvation*
it can happen with any animal and it happens because eat only protein

>>2822541
fucking retard generated his reply with chatgpt lmao

>>2822598
no

>>2822109 (OP)
>live off hunting
impossible. this is why farming and agriculture were invented. don't hunt to live, homestead. hunting and fishing is simply a bonus, not the primary method.

>>2823309
you can have sufficient meat through animal husbandry. unless you're moving around you're going to kill off your entire stock or get less and less lucky over time with hunting. if you live in a migratory path it may be doable, but you would have extended periods of absolutely nothing.

>>2822109 (OP)
Possible but labor intensive and expensive to sustain. There's a reason humanity switched to farming, the food literally grows on trees bro.

>>2822299
Easy as in NZ mate, probably easy everywhere else too. It'll keep for a week hanging in the shade. Not in a high humidity enviroment though, it'll go rank pretty quick. Just hang a sheet over it to keep the flys off.

>>2822109 (OP)
I'd need a larger freezer, but easy enough to hunt all meat I need here.
This is in northern Norway, got a moose tag this year, and last year.
Even if I don't get it, I can just buy a tag for roe deer, or hunt seals, that's always available and cheap, not to mention small game which we have a ton of.
I'd like to hunt all my protein myself, but don't really have enough room to do so yet, but when I find a nice rural house that's not too far off, I'll have that handled.

>>2823309
Factually incorrect, YOU can live off hunting, but EVERYONE can't.
There are simply too many people now, but as long as the majority is ok with eating onions slop, you can do hunting.

>>2822109 (OP)
Poachers are cancer. You will get caught. Nobody likes you and will turn you in. Gunshots aren't silent, people will find you, and backpackers will report you.

>>2822443
Hey how are ya hey how are ya

>>2824166
Who said anything about poaching?
Also, poachers should get shot.

>>2822109 (OP)
1, 4, 2, 5, 3.

>>2822257
>>2822598
Retard

>>2822541
>>doesn't know the inuit eat plants half the year
depends on where they live, some live their entire lives without seeing a single edible berry

>>2822109 (OP)
Can any anon confirm if the new Winchesters are any good? I would ask on /k/ but no one owns any guns on /k/.

>>2824949
It ends up being a pretty short life desu

>>2826057
just get a 45-70

>>2824166
This is why crossbow with ir nightvision optic is the way to go. Combine it with some corn bait feeders. The trail walking liberals hate this simple trick

>>2826057
If they were good, people like flannel daddy would be reviewing them instead of just shilling about muhmadeinamerica.
Don't own one either btw.

>>2822109 (OP)
Where i live? Not difficult. 3 deer during bow season. Another 3 during gun/muzzleloading. And then in the early summer i shore fish in michigan for king salmon and steelhead. I have more than enough meat for a family of 5 typically. We buy a lot of chicken though to change things up. Theres also rabbit and squirrel if youre into small game but i usually dont. Then theres bird but i dont care to unless its a turkey hunt.

>>2822198
The most bullshit statement in this thread.

I’ll say this. If you live in a place with liberal doe tags and aren’t concerned with antler size you can fill up a freezer real fucking quick and we’ve done it every single year since I was a kid. The issue is the faggots worried about trophy sized bucks like we don’t have 3-5 bruisers on every 300+ acre property anyway.

>>2826057
buy a bergara

>>2824197
Noooooo daddy government please help meeee not the heckin deerarinos

>>2826057
They've moved their manufacturing to Turkey. It's a zombie skin suit corporation... A Turkish quality gun with an American name slapped on.

>>2826309
>Combine it with some corn bait feeders.
you're just a bootleg rancher at that point. one of the main points of hunting is to eat animals that are actually wild and have a natural diet. Not human fed slop

>>2826664
Turkey does good hair plugs why couldn't they make a 150yo gun

>>2826783
You could say that about any Turkish shotgun, and yet, they still all suck. It's not the design it's the quality of parts and manufacturing. Look into it if you don't believe me, but Turkish shotguns just suck.

>>2822272
But vitamin c is destroyed through cooking, and freezing meat rensers 40% of its protein unusable.

>>2826936
You are incorrect

>>2826567
Are your mentally challenged?
I suggest you look up populations of any wildlife both during the great depression and in the 50's.
Yeah, poachers should be shot.

>>2827079
>Deer population
Who cares? They should be killed because they trespass while armed. Bambi has got nothing to do with it

>>2824949
Wow I didn't know Inuit lived on the moon

>>2822109 (OP)
depends, you'd have to be able to reliably harvest at least one or two big game animals and supplement with a lot of small game in the leaner months, possibly supplementing with fishing and raiding nests for eggs.
for most folks, i don't think it's possible due to legal constraints and their ability to harvest consistently

>>2822109 (OP)
It's a lot of work. Obviously humans did it for a few hundrerd thousand years with the mountain men being probably the last and they still had staples like flour and beans regularly.

>>2822245
You know the butcher is adding beef to the chuck and sausage right?

>>2827079
Oh no not the garden rats fuck we might kill them all

>>2827256
>the butcher is adding beef
>adding beef to the rib eye steaks and back straps
lol. no.