I don't see how to romanticize that. Fighting for survival is understandable, but not developing a more cost-beneficial hunting method over the years isn't.

I loathe hunting, but if you have to do it to feed youself etc be practical and grant the animal a swift death. Dying of exhaustion sounds awful and it's also a waste of time and energy resources for the hunter.

You know, I never quite believed all those postcards are sent from real people. Some of them seem like fabrications to me.

The "historical" ones from the link are very funny and subtle, nice counterpoint to PostSecret's occasional excesses of self-pity.