FWIW< I live in an area where market gunning flourished.
I've seen the tally sheets and price lists for the sale of harvested game. I don't think it was a big money maker.

Other opportunities (at least in this region) reduced/eliminated it's necessity.

I'm sure there was always a market for fresh shot game, but I think by 1920, the shipping of barrels full of salted/iced canvasbacks, was in the rear view mirror.

When I hunt my local marsh, I remember the earlier writings of a man that shot canvasbacks and rails on the very fields I see as having been diked and drained for food production. By 1930, cooperative flood control was in full swing.

No more celery beds at the end of my road. frown


Out there doing it best I can.