Canada is one of the top hunting nations in the world, I've grown up with it and I'm definitely not a hippie about it. All I am saying is if it was with a knife or traps, then hunting would be cool in my eyes, but picking off a deer or whatever with a rifle is pretty much like dropping dynamite in a lake. Not really much class in the kill, eventhough hunters think it is because you go in the woods and wait around around and feel entitled to the kill after doing so. Enroll in a paintball league or the army if you want to feel badass and shoot things.
! You're one to speak about class
The thing is that, other than liking the food and enjoying the whole tracking and spotting thing, there is a severe overpopulation of both Deer and Moose in this country. There are very few predators here in norway capable of taking down large game, mainly bear and the occational wolves, and they arent exactly abundant.
The deer population has exploded, and with it the population of ticks and other pests. Deer is considered a pest now, and in some places(mainly islands/peninsulas) they are in such high number that theyre starving, due to the lack of sufficient food supplies.
The hunting season controls this, and every educated hunter(grabbing a rifle and running inna woods aint happening) can apply(usually as a team) for a certain amount of game, and the permits will be issued as per the needs of Viltnemda(the governing control of wild animals) to satisfy the balance needed.
I get no satisfaction out of a kill(because I'm not a psychotic retard, i just pretend that i am
), and if i wanted to just shoot at things, theres always silhouette and target shooting(which i also do, you cannot into hunting unless you have at least 400 shots out of your weapon, to ensure that you know how to operate it sufficiently to kill the darned thing on the first shot, and thus limit any potential suffering).
Besides, haters gonna hate and hunters gonna hunt
And paintball is gay
Edit:
they made a Glock sight system for our upstanding young ethnically african-american gentlemen