Originally posted by 76chevy: a 2013 study shows otherwise. 35% of hunters reported hunting primarily for meat . Up from 2006, I suspect the 08 economic downturn and rising food prices drive this.
Hunting "for meat" is the most #1 cited response to this survey of hunters done in 2013.
Originally posted by delaney: [b] ...... hunting for food us no longer a valid aspect of hunting from a need standpoint and hasn't been for many years. The food aspect simply is fallacy anymore. It was though the aspect of woodsman ship that the first hunters relied on, which has disappeared more and more with all technology. Technology is typically driven to help, or make easier or more convenient. Often intended, technology takes our any necessity of work or effort. ....
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In this day and age NOBODY (including that 35% quoted above) is going to starve to death if they don't kill a deer! Notice I didn't say "HUNT". It will help, but Its not purely subsistence hunting. Now, go back a 100 years, and that's a different story……..I'm sure that's the point Dave is trying to make.
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