sure it very much depends how you go hunting
if you buy a used 150 dollar gun buy a orange vest to go over your warm cloths you already have and hunt close to home and not burn to much gas you could easily bag some game and keep the cost down
or you could buy a 4 wheeler , a winch , 500 dollars in cloths , a stand , a truck to pull it all , stay in a hotel hundreds of miles from home , I think you get the idea
same goes for raising meat , but raising takes land or rental of land and in most states around me you can find some way to hunt deer on public land you work harder at it but it costs less
but you are really overlooking a gold mine of nearly free meat that people hit with cars every day
if your county has a list get on it , if no such thing exists , talk to some deputies and the dispatcher tell them you can be there not long after they call to move it out , many road kill have little damaged meat it is fairly easy to tell when looking at them , if they are spattered all ove rthe road no bother but if they took the hit in the head and the body is still in good shape they are generally fine , sometimes you do get to gutting and find a mess but it is all about time and temperature , if you can be there fast to get it fresh hit you can salvage a lot.
then the overlooked meats , **** and possum , if you learn how to prepare them they can be very edible , I find **** is a bit like turkey leg in texture I have only ever tried the younger ones. not to say that you couldn't do a pulled meat bbq sandwich with older tougher ones
cutting your own meat is a hige cost savings , no point in picking up a free deer to pay 75 dollars to get it cut , you can do it at home with minimal tools , knifes , hack saw , cutting boards , rope and a tree or beam to tie it over , a 7 dollar gambrell is a help , I also like to use a come-a-long to raise mine up , an old shower curtain helps keep the mess down on the garage floor when i do them at my aunts , at my house it si the tree in the back yard , I skin quarter and place in a cooler , I then put the cooler in the bath tub our bathroom is right next to the kitchen I use the shower head wand to hose them off the cooler has a drain , then I move one quarter at a time to the table in the kitchen and de-bone , I once asked my wife if I could put a hook in the kitchen ceiling to attach the come-a-long to and just bring the deer in on a tarp and skin and quarter in the kitchen and was told NO!
another meat that is nearly free is squirrel , collect up walnuts when they fall put them in a bucket with a lid then with a small live trap place a wall nut in the trap check daily if you always have squirrel bounding around you will have one in the trap in a day or 2 you can use a cheap pellet gun that would not be enough to shoot one form a tree but works fine form 6 inches away or you can give them a bath