Traditional bowhunter here. I'm a longbowman, as my screen name says. I make my own arrows literally from scratch. I mostly hunt cottontail rabbits and jackrabbits and eat both. Year round season and generous bag limits, it can't be beat. Some years back when cash was scarce, I was using my Remington 870 12 gauge with long-tom barrel to stay in meat. I did the math and had it all figured out. After the hunting license which I already had, the gas, and the shotgun shell, this meat was costing me about a nickel a pound. I'd bag about 2 or 3 cottontails and at least 5 jackrabbits. Now, people say you can't eat jackrabbits but that isn't true. I could get four meals out of one jackrabbit. Shoot, a raccoon can make a few fine meals if you know how to fix that rascal right.
But those jackrabbits, man, that's a fine time! They're fast, but they can't outrun a shotgun shell or an arrow. Nice thing about using a bow is I can reuse that arrow and that cuts my cost-per-pound of meat down a lot. I fill a plastic bag with just the hearts and livers and make a meal out of those alone. People say, "Ain't that meat tough?" No, y'all ain't cookin' it right. Gotta jug that joker, that's how it's done. Jugged Hare is the recipe name and you can find it all over the net. More meat on a jackrabbit than a cottontail, too.
Where I hunt those jackrabbits and cottontails, there's a deep canyon. I drop down into the bottom and pick wild grapes and black walnuts that grow in the bottom. Then come right back up and by then the rabbits have forgotten about me. So I get a few more. Come away with dinner and dessert for a week or more.