I personally witnessed this happen in Indiana. I arrived after the carcass had been partly butchered on the kitchen table, on top of a layer of newspaper for the blood and entrails and stuff. The lucky finder of this free meat was a former fighter pilot who had been trained to surive in the woods for some punishing length of time. Once you have been through that, he told me, something really primal gets switched on in your mind, and for the rest of your life every animal you see, you can see it in terms of how meat it is made out of, and what it would take to twist its head off to get at the meat.
The meat was made into chili and jerky.