Save money on food?

[ridgerunner1965]

i save a lot of money by hunting.i own land which is doing nothing but going up in value. my family owns land they raise cattle on and are glad to let me shoot deer on it.free land owner tags.no special equipment or fancy guns.no travel expenses, food or lodgeing.process my own animals.

the best part is that the 4 deer i harvested last winter, allowed me to sell the beef i was saveing to butcher.i got 900 buks for it plus saved about 200 buks plus on processing.so basically hunting made me around 1000 buks last year.i like that.how many people yu know can make money by hunting?

 

[trapper1]

I guess I've never really sat down and put a dollar amount on the money saved. I hunt my own property, so license and tags are not needed to be purchased. Between the deer harvested, pheasant, turkey, waterfowl, squirrel and rabbits, we have plenty of food year round. I process everything myself. Couple that with some livestock, a half acre garden, private fishing, and a marsh for turtle and frogs, I guess that adds up to quite a bit of savings a year. Come to think of it, I can't honestly remember the last time I bought any kind of meat at a store. Maybe 5 years?