PC How do you Hunt in a19? (caution, may be spoilers)

[Bashtiks]

You get a gun on day one in A19? You play with something like 300% XP and loot abundance and 120min days? Because with default settings there is no way looting a gun on your first or second day. I do know how to play this game, playing since 2013, but on warrior with default settings there is no way we can find enough canned food for 4 people or a gun in the first two days.

All on default well looting a gun on day 1 might depend on luck a bit, toilet pistols usually is the best bet or doing few quests to buy a gun in day 1 or 2 dunno and there is quite a few vending machines around too usually each have at least 2 food cans to buy, same goes for trader. In the end all boils down to indiviual preference, one likes to gather meat and cook, other just loots food and 3rd one buys it ..

 

[Junuxx]

I didn't see a single deer or pig in b173. Are they back yet?

Also one of my favorite tricks is to chase rabbits and chickens into the trader's barbed wire.

 

[smokingpaper]

I kinda mix up stuff a little bit. Somethimes if my character can run fast enough I use a knife, other times i sneak and use the bow and eventually a hunting rifle will come in handy as well or some other nice gun. 
Other than that, playing A19 on vanilla settings, haven't had any trouble with finding canned food or a gun. Found a blunderbuss on day 1 and found an AK47 (q1) on day 2 looting a gun shop with a shooting range.
Also another ways to get food: 

-Sell the crap you don't use and plunder the vending machines for food and candy.

- Take on "buried supplies"  quests and that will give some food too.

There are so many ways to get food..
What helps is lateral thinking.