Quote Originally Posted by dwalker460 View Post
Has occured to me, and I have the following thoughts-

A> A VERY large percentage of our population has not a clue about how animals are food, or how to make animals into food. I believe most of the sheeple will not resort to the hills and hunting, but instead stick to urban centers hoping for some form of caretaking. I do nothing to discourage this line of thinking.
B> Without King Sooper and Starbucks, the next impulse will be to buy or steal prepared foods- which is why it does not pay to advertise that you are a prepper or have any amount of stored foods- someone will remember.
C> While a lot of people own guns, not all of them know how to hunt and your kidding yourself if you think the animals wont fade into deep cover.
I agree with all 3 of these points as well.
A - the ignorance of the masses, is unquestionable. Nevertheless, I pity the ranchers who may start losing their cattle the moment grocers run dry...
B - yep. Only a select few people know what provisions my wife and I have or don't have, and that's intentional. None of them actually know what we have exactly, just that we do canning and have a costco membership. Defending our provisions is a given.
C - No doubt about it. Lots of shooters are not hunters. I know tons of them. My point is not so much that we'd kill them all, but also exactly what you said... they'll "fade into deep cover". Thus, making my point that they're not around anymore.... I'm just saying it's likely that folks can't necessarily expect to rely on "game" to be their primary food source unless a) you're already in a very secluded area and know how to hunt, or b) the majority of folks leave/populations diminish and animals return.