And as far as those who theorize that game will be wiped out quickly…..

The decline of game populations is actually a much-studied subject. The decline in game populations in N.A. was not due to subsistence hunting by settlers and locals but was primarily due to agricultural practices of the 1800′s (which would not return in a SHTF scenario), and a big secondary cause – market hunting by professionals. It is also reasonable to assume that that type and level of market hunting won’t return, because if TSHTF, transportation infrastructure would be far less intact than during the post-Civil War period, where excellent rail existed between rural and urban areas, enabling the “market” for market hunting (no market, no market hunting).

Game populations would certainly decrease but people hunting in rural areas for themselves isn’t the reason deer, ducks, etc. declined so much during the late 1800′s. Any “wipe out” happened for completely different reasons.