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When you have a few million people who are hungry, retooling isn't an option. I would doubt that, during the winter months, if one was to gather every can of food in the entire North America that you could feed us all for 15 days.

I think you'd see a comback in game hunting with a lot of people out there hunting for game with anything from revolvers to assault rifles. The downside is that if you spot a deer, elk, buffalo, etc., when you fire your gun, the noise will let others know within a 5 mile radius (sound will carry more when things like airplanes don't fly anymore, etc, I live near an airport and it was kind of eerie when the President ordered all flight traffic to a halt for a week) of your general direction and give them the idea that the best way to bring home the venison is to find you.

"the best way to bring home the venison is to find you."

They will know ahead of time that you are also armed, so that reduces the risk somewhat. The increased risk is that those who were serious about finding you would probably shoot you from a concealed location.

One answer would be to kill the deer or whatever then stay where you are for 12/24/36 hours, remaining on the lookout for armed men who appear to be tracking, before you headed back to camp.