Our’s too.
[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]

I am actually glad I am not burdened with having to shoot multiple elk or red deer per year.

There’s just an element of reality do it.

There are only two aging adults in our house. We enjoy a broad variety of foods. There is no economic necessity. And I am the only one that cooks game.

If I cook 1 pound of wild fish or a game, two times a week, that is a lot.

That means that over the course of the year less than 200 pounds of wild anything gets consumed.

Mostly by me.

The deer that I shoot in my yard generate 40 pounds of lean carefully trimmed meat each. Times three and a good year, that’s 120 of the 200.

That means that by October there is no more space, and I am back into sausage making mode to give free, venison away. Nobody wants ducks. I eat all those myself.

It also means that we have to forgo, all the social interactions we enjoy with others that center around a meal,. Visit to restaurants, vacations, etc, where we eat out, etc.

In short, the actual days per year that game can easily get onto the menu is hard to do twice a week.

I won’t even get into our culling efforts that almost exclusively involve old does that are sent to a dog sled lady after deboning.

For me to hoard excessive rifles at this time in my life is a burden I don’t need.
3 rifles and a muzzleloader is plenty.
That’s not a lot of ammunition to store either.

Which should illustrate a using battery versus a collection interest.

Out there doing it best I can.