I haven't hunted since the mode of transportation change. I hunted with my grandpa's 1917 Enfield after he hung it up. Had a little 30-30 Winchester to start with for a few years. Never used anything but the Enfield.
I too found that I just enjoyed being in the woods but needed a viable excuse to do so other than tree hugging and mushroom picking. Never killed many which was fine, work starts after the kill.
I hunted Archery for many years until they changed the laws to where you could only hunt one way.
Being a derelict the state would give me gate keys, and I could shoot out the window and I think even a free license, but having done it the right way, I wouldn't get any joy out of doing that. Shoot it, then have your friends do all the work.
In Memory of Paul "Dietrich" Stines.
Dad: Say something nice to your cousin Shirley
Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
RIP Muggsy & TMan
"If you are a warrior legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that JOCKO will not come today."