I'm like you in every respect except: I don;t normally have ill feelings about the killing. I have helped butcher at least 3 large game animals (deer and oryx), but I have never killed one. Small game animals don;t bother me a bit, but I think I might have some feelings if, after shooting a deer or other large animal, I arrived to find the animal still alive and struggling to live.

I agree about the trophy hunting too. I don;t have a problem with hunters who kill and process a large game animal, and then take the trophy for mounting, but I do have a problem with those that hunt solely for the trophy.

I have no problem hunting predators. The best meat I ever tasted, bar none....none....is cougar taken from the Davis Mtns in west Texas. I haven't hunted a mountain lion yet, but I'll doggone sure stalk the barbeque pit for scraps like a hyeena until I do hunt one!