Okay, we're all likely to die of starvation in a long term survival situation, but I would like to be one of the last to go.

Assuming other humans are not lethal obstacles, or that those obstacles have been survived, in addition to exploiting all human-produced food I could get my hands on:

My first thought is to create passive calorie gathering: gill net fish, mist- or cloud- net birds, snare and trap mammals. Anybody have additional ideas along these lines?

I would try to exploit animal caches of food: squirrel and woodpecker nut caches, and bee hives. Anybody know of others?

Hunt the largest and fattest animals, the biggest return on your energy expenditure. In a survival situation there might be both domestic, or formerly domestic, and wild animals from which to choose. Large caliber firearms and very stout archery equipment probably called for.

Longer term, with the chance of human depredation reduced, try to: [1] domesticate, or capture or "liberate" domestic animals, and [2] cultivate and propagate edible and useful plants, wild or otherwise.

Sounds like a lot of work.

thoughts?

Thanks.