Small game hunting for edible game has declined over the decades and the varmint hunters have taken over. The factories a century ago made guns for loads like 25-20, 32-20, .25 and .32 rimfire. You could shoot something with one of those and have something left to eat. When the .22 Hornet and then the Bee and the Zipper and the Swift arrived in the 1930s that era ended.
