If you started last year and quit already you will never be a hunter anyway, you might try hugging bunnies. I am not a bowhunter, but a rifle hunter. I saw more terrible rifle shooting and poor tracking result in lost deer, last year, than ever before. I found 6 doe's with bullet wounds on my lease. All in a fairly small area. It turns out that the family that owns that farm and leases to me, hunts with guns passed down from grandpa and dad that they don't know how to sight in. The female I talked to I know was using a 30-30 with the sights missing! She says she thinks they used to be on there when she hunted as a little girl but they were always loose. One of the boys uses a 223/410 over and under that he admits he tries to hold two feet to the left to hit his target. These are not bad kids (in their 20's) or bad people and they need the meat to live. Their father died when they were young from a bloodclot after breaking his leg falling off an icy ladder, while trying to de-ice his satellite dish on the roof. So like predators do, they use the weapons and experience they have, to try and kill game to eat. They retain about 60 acres of their farm for this purpose and I lease the rest, where ethical hunters pay me to produce big bucks. The family won't shoot at bucks because doe's taste better to them, so they are no competition, and even if they were, there are plenty of deer. More doe's still have to be taken every year to manage the herd. I offer to help them fix and sight in their guns but they kill enough to eat and don't care. They also kill enough for several others to eat and I'm sure the animals who clean up these kills appreciate it. I have little problem with this as it is the way nature works. Human nature is a part of it, and the impact is positive for the management of the deer herd and the survival of other animals who use the so called wasted deer meat. If the deer herd were declining and there was a negative impact I would take more action because it would matter. But right now there is no need to be over sensitive about nature taking it's coarse.
Anyway, people who don't know what they are doing are the main problem, if you believe there is a problem, I don't.
And oh, by the way! Most of the farmers around here rank deer right up there with rats! They shoot all they see all year long, legally to protect crops, which they have a right to do. But by law these animals must be left where they are killed, and not used for human food. And we still have a huge hunting industry here. People from all over the country come here to hunt the big bucks that we have an abundance of! I bet that makes you sad.