Embrace comfy hunting
>plastic bucket
>gallon water jug
>pvc pipe
>cotton sheet
You can catch a lot of animals just by running up to them and grabbing them, we've got opposable thumbs for a reason.
Do you really need to slay the animal? Murder it? Attack it with a weapon? It's silly and you'll hurt yourself. Catch the animal without hurting it and it won't really struggle that much, tie it up and if you've got to kill it do it cleanly.
If you thread wire through any old cotton sheet it makes a net you can control an animal with. Dig a hole and put your container into it, put the net over the container, bait the container, hoist up the animal, wrap the net around the animal and store it in the plastic container. Take it home, be nice to it, eat it, up to you.
Want to hunt a pig? You need a huge gun? Some kind of medieval pike? A compound bow?
No, you just leave alcohol lying around in a bucket and then try to find the drunk pig after it passes out.
Deer? Lmao just cut the top of a gallon water bottle and peel the top outwards and then put a self tightening loop on it with trapping wire. The duur will go for the apple, get the bottle stuck on its head and tighten it by moving. If you tie the bottle to a tree they will just sort of stand around until the other deer abandon them. Feels bad man. Sometimes they run off into the woods with the bottle on their head and run into trees or break their legs which isn't nice all. Most animals that get covered in a sheet won't panic, they just sit down and wait for you to come.