Indubitably, you CAN make a living hunting, but it takes more than hunting.
You have to find a legal way to make $ because gas cant be bought with fish....
When I became able to support the wife and 2 kids with year round hunting, Inwondered why I even came back to the village, so in a change of lifestyle, I packed my crap into a sled and went hunting and didnt go home. The wife and I took the kids and we simpley camped out for 11 years with a few short breaks , as I just wanted to stay out where the animals were and keep hunting. We made fur clothing and things like fur sleeping bags, boots, mittens, and the wife also scrimshawed ivory and carved bones while I could make a basket type sled tann some furs we caught and could spare, and get some decent $, for gas, bullets, diapers, etc...... or We had the skills sets and as a last ditch, our house in Noorvik village, so we did always have a safety net.Also, my wifes family is very large and we have many friends out on the land, hunters and their wifes, kids so we werent alone all the time. We homeschooled the kids and there was a camp corraspondence teacher that used to fly to the camps, but as time the kids grew up and the program stopped about 10 years ago, but we still homeschooled a couple kids who wanted to follow along, and with no regrets about that, either. kids cant learn Arctic Winter living outdoors from a book in a class room......
Untill National Geographic started following along, me, my wife and kids hunted, trapped and what we didnt eat, we made museum displays with our catch, tanned and sewn displays of my wifes Inupiaq Eskimo ancestors. The wifes reputation is workd wide, museums buy them as fast as we make them, and we still get requests.
Alaska is a hard place to hunt, and takes a year to become a resident, but most all of rual AK hunts/fishes/ gathers/traps for a seasonal income or to supplement foods and cash. A few huys hunt full time and support large, extended families , usually someone in the household is related to them, but Thats what its about. few people understand giving away the “paycheck”, but in the Eskimo way, its always returned, prehaps gas is bought, or bullets or camp gear or babysitting while the huntings going on for a share of the catch. Young guys often “crew up” and learn from older guys and receive a share of the catch, etc etc etc...
It can be done, and I got into the last 31 years simply by chance. With my kids grown up, its easy to keep hunting and haul a camera man along, for a few more $, simply because I can effectively do so. Not giiding, but recording I figure.
Besides the hunting, I much enjoy making my own equipment, and posting here.
Try look me up here, Ive been posting on The High Road for years, even easier with a small Honda 2000 generator, and a small dish bolted to a sled I tow behind my snowgo......and I share my experiences here, too
Its 2020 and hunting can still be a viable living, not primitively, but comfortably.
You can read over this link I wrote up a few years back, see what you think.
https://forums.outdoorsdirectory.co...-life-as-a-subsistance-hunter-fisher-gather-r