>>134933
the reason they banned bow/spear hunting is because they deemed the death of the animal to gruesome, now think about your proposal and you will be able to answer your own question.
Also, when your method of axehunting would become viable, they would snatch our guns away with the reasoning of "but you have stones, why do you need guns?"
also
>trying to hunt the allready non-existent small game
>with rocks, bare handed or an axe
>hunting hare with an axe
Not to mention, that you won't find wieldable melee weapons in this day and age anymore other than prepressed walldecor stuff and LARP
suppliers which sole expertise revolves arround reading opinions of historians on subjects none of them could understand, since both smithing and fighting were guildguarded secrets which were taken to grave with their last practitioners.
Your best bet on finding 'real' melee weapon would be to steal it out of an viking grave or something and try to deal with the rust.
Other than that you seem to have a wrong idea about hunting. We want to hunt the animal not to gore it, but to make it protein of the highest class which even grassfed beef can't compare itself to. The godly texture of new-year shot roedeer which fed on sap rich trees, berries and saplings all its life is represented in its wholesome and nutty flavour.
The meat is lean and chewy in the best sense not like boiled rubber chicken