[2023] Deer Finder

If you're willing to expand to more dangerous quarries, definitely head to the snowy biome. Bears and cougars abound. It's pretty ridiculous actually.

Edit: And the animal tracker skill is a no brainer if you want to maximize hunting kills. Though I find so much meat without it, I have to sell extra stacks of it to the trader.

I don’t recall how much you get for a stack of meat, but I know like other items you can only sell three stacks at once. It’s not about the money, it’s about running out of room in my food crate. And I only hunt opportunistically, when I see something. In comparison to, say, Hunter: Call of the Wild, 7 Days is shooting-fish-in-a-barrel level hunting. Animals are literally deaf. But sorry, I don’t mean to rant.

Yes, you can deplete the animals in an area, the same way you can clear out the biome spawner zombies. Both will return eventually. So it’s worth taking trips to new areas to hunt. Or put differently, if you’re going to a new area, it’s worth hunting while you’re out there, if you see something.