Fresh meat after SHTF

[kev]

This is why I keep the feeders going all year, plus it helps to maintain the local wildlife.

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Some times we get wild hogs going to the feeder as well. If SHTF, or eotwawki we will have a supply of fresh meat, at least for a little while.

The time is one hour off, its still set from last hunting season.

Another good source of fresh meat after SHTF will be wild hogs. If you know someone with hog hunting dogs, talk to that person about going hog hunting.

A 100 pound hog can provide a small family with enough meat to sustain them for several days.

One of the big benefits to wild hogs during a long term SHTF situation, pigs breed like rats. If you and your hunting buddies can catch a boar hog and a sow, then you have a sustainable source of fresh meat.

Getting wild hog out of river bottom - YouTube

The problem with bringing a wild hog home from the woods, chances are its going to try and break out of the pen.

Wild boar hog escapes from pen - YouTube

If the sides of the pen has tin on the sides so the hog can not see what is on the other side, chances are its not going to ram the tin.

[ki4clz]

The biggest thing I learned when I was living in Montana was to NOT shoot the animals NEAREST your home that way if you ever needed them in a pinch they would be there... Although I will confess that a wandering Moose or two got lead poisoning (Bang!) while crossing our property (once during a blizzard).

So this is what we called keeping our refigerator stocked "on the hoof"

[two bits]

Great article Kev... I wish we had the access to wild pigs around here. I do plan on raising fresh meet but also subsidising the skillet with wild game by hunting & trapping.

[fixesstuff]

I think the pigs are really worth investing in, breeding rates, they survive damn near anywhere, and tasty as well.
With in a few years of a true SHTF most of us will be happy to get a few mice from snap traps for the soup pot, or a few sparrows taken with the pellet gun. Enjoy your Bacon!!!!

[Horsecreeker]

Living in Southern Illinois, I am darn glad we don't have wild hogs. I have a brother-in-law that lives in Texas who tells me he cannot have/grow anything without the hogs eating every thing in sight!

[tejasterry]

This is ironic. I just did a video on pressure canning feral hog meat on a stovetec rocket stove. We trapped them and ground the meat:

Pressure Canning on the StoveTec Rocket Stove -...

[Einherjar]

Just wondering how much meat you guys/gals eat on a daily basis? On average the wife and I only eat about 15 pounds a month. Sometimes less. Just interested to see the difference between us and some of you more carnivorous folk.

[Arsenul]

The freshest meat is the ones you keep alive till you need it.

[Pector55]

One of my biggest concerns during a SHTF situation is the potential over harvesting of deer and other wildlife in my area. I wish I had the land to raise pigs and chickens.

[Arch Stanton]

Depending on how many survivors there are, and how savvy they are locally, will depend on how much large game will actually be left. I would plan on getting used to opossum and snake meat. With no mass form of communication, how will you know that your neighbors down the hill are not blasting away deer and hogs like candy and the one you have your sights on could be the last in your area (The pioneers always thought there were more buffalo around the next bend because they didn't know that thousands of other settlers had the same mentality and were blasting away as well)? I agree that sustainable farming practice, such as raising your own herds, is the way to go.