My father used to deer hunt, when we lived in northern Michigan. I was to young to go with him. We moved to Tennessee, and rarely ever saw a deer. I would hunt squirrel and rabbit in the mountain behind the house. There was very little public land to hunt. Just didn't see much wild game around here back then, like it was hunted out. Dad was completely out of his hunting environment and with out his old hunting buddies. He couldn't afford to go on hunting trips, or maybe he felt the money was best spent on us and home?
Now there is wild game every where around here. We get deer walking through the yard almost every day. I see foxes, bobcat, raccoon, turkey and much more. Not many people hunt any more. I see lots of people with guns, but they don't use them for hunting.
I haven't been hunting since I was a teen ager. Nothing against it. I have kept an old 16gage shot gun, thought maybe one of these days I'd do some turkey hunting.