If you live in the right area, hunters will give you as much venison as you can freeze. No poaching required.

I have property in NW Wisconsin and this is true. Also bear, which are hunted with dogs in this area. It's hard to understand - it seems a lot of middle-class and higher income people that hunt don't particularly like venison/bear/goose/etc and so they give it away. They just like to kill. (But I like to eat all of those and I have hunted but no longer do because everyone gives me their meat)

But the lower-income people I talk to do hunt for food and get enough meat to last the year.