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Here in good 'ol Montucky my wife and I kill enough to keep the 3 of us from ever eating beef outside of a restaurant. We can eat up to 10 deer per year, and anything less than 7 will run us out of meat in about August. We have tags enough here to do it all on the up and up, but only take pictures of the trophies & firsts.


My father was a subsistance hunter. He grew up in a tarpaper shotgun shack durring the "Dirty Thirties", poaching only as needs dictated. Remember they had no freezers then. In those days a poor family could feed the local game warden a meal of fresh venison in April, but if a rich man poached a deer he would get the book thrown at him.

In fact, he once killed a WT doe as meat for his snowed-in CC camp with a slug he made out of a battery post and loaded into a birdshot shell. According to him he held the bead of his "Long Tom" shotgun dead center at a distance of just 20 feet. The hommade slug flew so poorly that it hit just below the ear! All was well that ended well, and for 2 days they had meat with their rice and beans. They were able to break a trail a few days later.