re: #285 Vicious Michigan Union Thug

That’s probably true considering that food animals were probably not slaughtered by gunshot. Even wild game was usually trapped.

Yeah, any actual ‘food for survival’ guy will tell you that trapping is far more effecient way of hunting than using guns, even with today’s superior firepower. Traps work all the time. But mostly the colonists ate domesticated animals because that’s what the hell we domesticated them in the first place for. Or they traded stuff to the local tribes for wild game.

A rmusket was really expensive and hard to maintain, as was gunpowder and balls. It was all iron, so it rusted unless you oiled it, the powder had to be kept at the right humidity, and the balls and shot would also rust.