My biological grandfather live in deep West Virginia. They do have rifles (shotguns rather i think) but they "hunt" with traps. There is a lot of deer there, and from what i heard their group were never great hunters, way better riders than hunters at least, and it was always easier for them to kill a trapped deer than shoot at it (and also the risk of shooting on someone you know, it was a small back-to-lander community). Nowadays they don't need the meat anymore (and they don't ride horses either, old age catching up), but they still use traps sometime.

I think the rationnal was also to be a lot less subject to snake attacks. You had to got hunt with a dog to avoid those, and even then it wasn't foolproof. And there was no road access until the late 90s, making moving without horses (who didn't fare that well with dogs) inconvenient at best.