Many people in this country hunt to live

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"It would be rare to find anyone who hunts to live"

Maybe in your circle, in mine I know many. Just some math ...

Average dress out of a south Texas deer, 75 pounds. Number of deer that you can harvest, 3. That is 225 pounds of meat, average $5 a pound. $1,125. The cost of that? Box of bullets, hunting license, type II license if you want to go to Sam Houston National, Davy Crockett is still Type I and has no cost.

I haven't deer hunted in a decade, to me it is alot of work. Which it is if you are hunting for meat. However, many of my friends still hunt every year in the same place we have gone for 20 years. I still go very now and again and I get called "camp bitch" by a couple of very good old friends.

Later this year the crappie will begin to run in the north end of Lake Conroe. I will make a couple of trips up there in Feb/March to get my fill. Daily limit is 10, 25 on you anytime. A crappie comes out to two nice fillets, which would run you about $6 pound. I'll put about 40 or so of those fillets in my freezer and more than likely (my boat) a friend or two will toss me some deer sausage and a hind quarter.

Now, well this may not be the definition of "hunt to live", it damn sure is a nice way to get out of the house, enjoy the outdoors, and put some fresh meat in the freezer. If you are not into that kind of thing that is great, you can get all your stuff from the grocery, but do not every begin to think that there are not millions of people who use hunting and fishing to supplement their family.

And yea, none of these guys would even think for a second of taking government money to buy the food instead of getting it this way.