For a few months or so, until every wild animal larger than a kangaroo rat is shot...
Before the era of modern game management, our forefathers nearly exterminated dozens of species with black-powder rifles. Now we are six or eight times more numerous and armed with semi autos. If the system of hunting licenses and tags breaks down as people poach to feed their families, there will be nothing left in a matter of weeks. Walter Mitty fantasies of "living off the land" are preposterous.
One thing is certain, if it ever gets to that point, there will be a lot fewer people first.
This.
Not sure why so many are so ready to "bug out" with their little bags full of Ramen, fire-starters and 550 cord.
Becoming a scavenging refugee should be an absolute last resort.
You are exactly correct. We’ve reached the point where even larger fish can be tracked down one by one.
Fortunately, people are smart enough to raise crops and animals with much lower levels of technology. I know a lot of draft horse folks and a lot lot of Amish.
In a societal breakdown where people would have to hunt or starve most people in metropolitan areas would starve. The overwheming majority of the urban population don’t know how to hunt, don’t have the tools to hunt and aren’t close to places where game is plentiful. They woulnd’t be able to effectively leave those places either.
I can guess why it is you might think there is a finite amount of resources in the world but history is against your supposition.
Those of us who live in the country witness the large multiplication of wild life where there are few predators to keep things “balanced”.
If the deer run out, we eat squirrel; the squirrels run out, we eat raccoon; etc. The city folks eat rats... I think it would be hard to decimate the fauna in this world in a short amount of time...
Rosy glasses, I know, but hey, I live in the country...
Will all those cows and chickens just disappear when the “game management system breaks down”?