“I don’t know anyone who kills for food nowadays.”
I don’t know anybody who doesn’t, you do realize that all 50 states have laws in place that make it a crime to waste or leave in the field any game animal taken.
Yup. And not just gun hunting — I know a guy who goes hunting with bow and arrow. Got a freezer full of deerburger.
Not entirely true. Down here in Texas killing hogs and letting them lay is allowed.
Uhhh, not entirely. I hunted fall '10 in Alaska, took a 8 1/2 ' brown bear. Skinned it and left the rest, except the heart which I insisted the guide take. We had it for dinner, tough but tasty, and the guides and outfitter all said it was the first brown they had ever tasted. I assume it is a carrier of trichinosis.
I also have helped my BIL in Mich with deer eradication, killing 20 one summer on crop damage permits. Not required to recover them at all, but we butchered at least half of them.
Out neighbors male and female ALL hunt for food. If they don’t need the meat there are plenty of people in the community that do....relatives and neighbors get first dibs.
Local locker will even clean, butcher and package it for you just like a hog or cow.