i love hunting and target shooting so i buy suplies and reload my own,i have several hundred rounds for everything i own.even smokeless powder i s getting hard to find.i have two freezers,one we eat out of and the other is getting filled for the next winter till harvest period.it,s hard work to live like they did when my dad was young. but it puts you in touch with yourself.if you don't grow it or raise it and put it away for later you don't eat.i don't need to live that way but it is much more gratifying to know you can survive on your own if you had to.
Spot on Michael....
It is this self sufficiency that is waning from society.
Only a hundred and fifty years ago, a man who could not provide for his family wasn't really a man at all.
Today, few people even know what a garden is, or how to skin a chicken, or prepare fish that doesn't come from a box.
When these processes are lost, they are lost forever. Once that happens, we might as well bring on the great floods....and get it over with. We have lost track of all that is important to us, and which got us to this point.
What do they say, rags to Rich's, to rags in 3 generations. This is sort of the same thing.
So learn to respect a gun, but know how to use one. Learn to grow your food, how to prepare it, and how to survive when few around you could do it.
I believe this is called survival of the fittest!