[3llusive]

Domesticated hogs. Not wild. Wild boars are significantly smaller than those we've been selectively breeding for generations to produce more meat.

Beyond that, when it comes to large game like white-tail deer, most hunters using modern day compound bows with illuminated, adjustable peep sights, hunting every day of the season can be lucky to tag out with one or two white-tails. Most of the times not even a fully mature, old and large buck. Healthy does and younger bucks being much more likely. Fact is, two hunters doesn't cut it for thirty people.

[RiverKelly]

Okay, lets assume we're pulling a doe or it's equivalent in small game daily. That's roughly five times less meat then the domestic hog, which means we'd need 40 days of that to supply an entire winter.

Now I know the hunters were at it for much longer then 40 days.

[3llusive]

Okay, lets assume we're pulling a doe or it's equivalent in small game daily. That's roughly five times less meat then the domestic hog, which means we'd need 40 days of that to supply an entire winter.

Now I know the hunters were at it for much longer then 40 days.

You don't pull in a doe daily. That doesn't happen. And unless you're hunting down 13 squirrels, or 13 rabbits a day (not going to happen) just to cover the daily need for protein, and THEN even more for excess to store...

Once again, not happening with two hunters.

And beyond that, any season that isn't winter or late fall if you're hunting and killing rabbits or hares for food carries a risk for serious illness due to rabbit fever.

Winter is safe because the first frost kills sick rabbits with the disease.

[RiverKelly]

Good thing the majority of reserve hunting happened in late fall. According to your math, we need 1277.5 pounds of meat to last us through a season. Now, to get there we require fourteen pounds of food brought in each day for one season, or 10.5 pounds brought in each day for one year. Until mid winter we had three hunters, and they had been preparing for winter roughly a year before it came. That means 3.5 pounds of food from each hunter each day of preperation.

By your standards, that is 1 - 3 small game kills each day..

So the citizens of Ravenna should have plenty of meat.

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I'd like to add, that with only two hunters, that's only 5.25 pounds needed a day.

Five small game kills, possibly less. Easy pickings, for a solid noon-sundown hunting schedule.

[FireDog]

Both of you stop arguing. Now. River is correct on the sense there is some food on reserve for the inn. That being said, 3lli is also correct on how we should have much less food at the inn due to trade being cut off. The point of this recent winter is that WE ARE LOW ON FOOD. With no trade, no food or alcohol, along with other supplies, is being brought in. And thus, it should be RP'd accordingly. Both of you will stop this argument here. There is no reason to carry this on. Ravenna is running low on food. That's the fact.

A rule to keep in mind:

14. Any arguing on the forum is forbidden and may result in warnings for all participants and the posts being removed.

Finally, we ask of you to keep on topic to the thread rather going into a mathematical debate on how much food was brought in by the hunters. It's getting off topic and I think Chelle would appreciate the thread to stay on it's tracks.