Home Distiller

I am sitting back here, surfing the HD forum, eating duck and grouse that my son and I shot last fall, drinking a homemade whisky, wondering how many out there in internetland hunt and fish for their own food?
Don't get me wrong, I eat enough fast food for all of us, but was wondering how many of us eat our own venison, wild fowl and fish for at least 50% of our sustanance?
I include beef and poultry in this if you raise it and butcher it yourself.
It is all hard work and very rewarding. And it keeps us alive. Home distilling just makes being alive worth it.

I'm with you fastill, I may not consume 50% of my diet with wild game, but it's close.

Mud, if you are from as far deep south as I think, you have the best duck hunting in the world in your backyard, and the bigest whitetails not far away.
I get my ducks where they start to fly and you get them where they land!

I love venison and so do my boys so we do 2 deer in MA, 2 deer in NH, 1 in RI times 3 of us..... my freezer runneth over.
Son and 3 of his buds dropped a moose last season
Used to pheasant hunt till I found a place where I could buy chicks so we keep a pheasant coop.
Rabbit hutch too.
I can trade rabbit and pheasant to the butcher for a pig now and then and beef is cheap there.

Fresh meat is best and my daughters a vegetarian.

Moose Fish and Grouse for me.
I love it when the tourists are here--pork chops and beefsteak is a nice change of pace.

I am from that far south, but I do not hunt ducks. MM

Just a thought cuz I been sippin.

The average american or any other average folk in a modern culture, prolly,,,, is only required to think about feeding themselves and/or their family for like 5 minutes a day.

Certainly some folk spend more time as,,,,,,,food is good.
But their is something intuitively wrong with the way we live our lives when the most natural instinct of all only needs 5 minutes a day for planning.

I am sure our minds could be a lot more quiet if Family, God, Food, sex and likker were the only real things to prioritize.

This is not a politically base assertion.

Peace,,,,,seriously.
Luv ya.

Until recently I ate somethin' grown in my yard every day of the year, but very little game.

Now I live in the mountains and eat alot of wild fish and bird, but no garden anymore.

I'd be about 50%. I don't buy any meat. I shoot a lot of fish, and trade that with hunters for venison / pork etc, and get all my greens from the garden. learning how to make cheese now where does it all end?

kiwistiller wrote: ... where does it all end?

When ya die.

We don't eat fish, chooks, cows, pigs or anything similar unless circumstances dictate that we should, eg when dining at a guests place or stuff like that. We virtually live out of our garden just buying stuff like butter, cheese, tofu and pepsi.



We don't like duck hunters solely because we live about 100 feet from a lake and city slickers come up at weekends and shoot in our back yard. We don't like yelling at the fucking pricks cos they're just as likely to shoot us.

If we were to go into the city and start shooting over houses all hell would break loose. The sky would be black with cops in choppers, roads would be blocked with emergency vehicles, polititions would be ranting (as always), newspapers raving, talk back radio going crazy and we would wind up in prison.
When we ring the cops about the city slicker pricks shooting over our house..............................................................................nothing. Gotta love cops and duck hunting tourists. Not implying that that's what you blokes do, just got carried away cos it's duck/house shooting season right now.

blanik

When I was a kid I hunted, grew or raised 80- 90% of every thing I ate.

Now days I just don't have the time and I'm not home enough. I also don't have the need to, not that I can't. Well that and I'm a total bleeding heart, I took the neighbor kid hunting last year and let him fill both tags. I like to eat I just don't like pulling the trigger.

It's good to be self sufficient.

blanikdog wrote:We don't like duck hunters solely because we live about 100 feet from a lake and city slickers come up at weekends and shoot in our back yard. We don't like yelling at the fucking pricks cos they're just as likely to shoot us.

blanik

Sorry to hear that Blanik.

'Round these parts a duck hunter wouldn't dare shoot in someone's back yard without the home owners permission... they might accidentally catch a 30-06 round.

Bare minimum, the cops would show up and ticket or arrest the hunter, then the Game Warden would get involved and add his ticket and impound the hunters shotgun.

I feel bad for ya bro. That's horrible the cops won't do anythin'. Do yall have any laws about postin' land? Can ya post yer land "private property... no huntin' or fishin'" ?

blanikdog the people you are (rightfully) complaining about are not hunters, hunters have and give respect. your second description is 100% accurate.
+1 what theholymackerel said.
fastill, a long time ago and a few hundred miles from here hunting and fishing and panning gold was a way of life, but not now or here.
but the shot bag is full, flint is fresh knapped, powder is dry, and my knife is sharp. just in case. cob

cob wrote:blanikdog the people you are (rightfully) complaining about are not hunters, hunters have and give respect. ...

Yep, when I used to go after rabbits I wouldn't think of shooting without permission.

blanik

blanikdog, I know the rabbits appreciated that. Did many of them refuse?

Sorry blanikdog. I just could not resist. I do understand your situation, and I am of the same mind as theholymackerel.

Bert

Blanik, have you given any thought to scaring the ducks away from the lake before the hunters have a chance to shoot at em? Maybe sitting on the back porch with a pellet gun or some bottle rockets!!!!!!

Round here you don't hunt somones land without permision in writen, piriod! I do enjoy huntin hog, dear and whatever I can get but I got a wife that don't like it. So I get some from my dad whenever I can.

Same here pumpman, and if I am hunting on someone else's land with written permission, I would still make every effort not to piss off his neighbors. MM