Many a steer started his trip to our freeze with a .22 Ruger.
I grew up using one.
I’m always annoyed by those who ‘snicker’ at them.
Some folks can do righteous things with a ‘lowly’ .22.
We have a meat processing building on our farm too. Walk in box, Hobart sausage mill, Hobart meat slicer, Hobart butchers band saw. Can get the job done.
We make smoked link beef sausage like they have made in Lockhart, TX for over 100 years. And have processed a lot of wild game. Our friends use the building for that.
22LR is what we normally use for killing the game.
We also trap nuisance varmits. They get the same treatment before we dump them along an abandoned railroad embankment. Lots of racoons we trapped here in town. They were into everything till we thinned them. Trapped about 30 in less than a year.