East Side Hunting

East Side Hunting We provide lodging and outfitting for deer hunting in Schuyler County, Illinois.

East Side Hunting with 40 # of salami trying our first batch of snack sticks with deer wild hawg and bacon brats for lun...
01/09/2026

East Side Hunting with 40 # of salami trying our first batch of snack sticks with deer wild hawg and bacon brats for lunch.

East Side Hunting is Mixing another 40 # of Deer Salami and Started the Charcoal Grill to have some Deer Loin Ends for ...
01/08/2026

East Side Hunting is Mixing another 40 # of Deer Salami and Started the Charcoal Grill to have some Deer Loin Ends for Lunch.

East Side Hunting was honored to host a special needs deer hunter and grateful to our game warden for connecting us. An ...
01/03/2026

East Side Hunting was honored to host a special needs deer hunter and grateful to our game warden for connecting us. An unforgettable experience filled with gratitude, respect, and appreciation for the outdoors and each other.

12/31/2025

One of the most misunderstood hunting laws in America is why you can’t legally sell wild game meat. To many people, it sounds arbitrary. Historically, it’s anything but.

In the 1800s, wildlife in the United States was treated as a commercial resource. Deer, bison, waterfowl, and passenger pigeons were harvested by professional market hunters and sold for their meat. Game was shipped by rail to cities, restaurants openly served wild meat, and wildlife populations collapsed at an industrial scale. This wasn’t subsistence, it was extraction.

By the late 19th century, the damage was undeniable. Entire species were disappearing, and state game laws meant little when animals could be killed in one state and sold in another. The turning point came in 1900 with the Lacey Act, the first federal wildlife conservation law in U.S. history.

The Lacey Act made it illegal to transport or sell wildlife meat taken in violation of state laws. More importantly, it broke the commercial incentive that drove market hunting. By removing profit from wild game meat, the law shifted hunting away from markets and back toward personal use and responsibility. Wildlife was no longer a food commodity, it became a public resource held in trust.

This distinction is important. Fur, hides, and taxidermy are often regulated differently because they don’t create the same widespread market pressure on wildlife populations that commercial meat sales once did. Meat is what drove mass exploitation, and that’s what the law targeted.

That principle became a cornerstone of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. If wild game meat can’t be sold, wildlife can’t be monopolized by wealth, land ownership, or industry.

We learned the hard way that when wild meat has a price tag, wildlife disappears.

Aaron B. Futrell
Author|Owner, Delong Lures

East Side Hunting with 25 lbs of Brats and 15 lbs of Breakfast Sausage Patties
12/19/2025

East Side Hunting with 25 lbs of Brats and 15 lbs of Breakfast Sausage Patties

East Side Hunting making deer/ pork brats and breakfast sausage patties.
12/19/2025

East Side Hunting making deer/ pork brats and breakfast sausage patties.

East Side Hunting has been busy processing deer this week. Here is 25 lbs of Salami.
12/19/2025

East Side Hunting has been busy processing deer this week. Here is 25 lbs of Salami.

Second 5 LB batch of fresh deer jerky this year at East Side Hunting.
12/12/2025

Second 5 LB batch of fresh deer jerky this year at East Side Hunting.

11/24/2025

Big Congratulations to the Brown County Hornets Football team, cheerleaders, fans and families. Get one more boys we are all pulling for you!!

East Side Hunting Congratulates Scott on his successful firearm hunt with a mature 10 point.
11/24/2025

East Side Hunting Congratulates Scott on his successful firearm hunt with a mature 10 point.

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Rushville, IL

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