"I love fishing and hunting but I always feel bad about the killing."

Why shouldn't you? You just deprived a creature of it's life. So you have a conscience, that's not a hanging offence. I regret the hamburger that was killed in my name. But I still eat it.

It seems to me that the dividing line is that you're eating the meat, and not just having a fun time killing things, like too many guys.

You probably also take care with WHAT you're shooting. I try not to go out in hunting season anymore. Many of those guys shoot at anything that moves, looks like it might, or any large stump with a 'rack'. They kill cattle, goats, llamas, dogs, people, cars, and each other. They wound animals and don't go after them to finish them off, because it's too much trouble. A woman in OR twenty years ago had a German Shepherd drinking out of his water bowl on her porch and he was shot by some fool who apparently "didn't notice" the house, the porch, or the ring of loose, colorful scarves that floated around the dog's neck, a talisman against bozos.

IMHO, trophy hunters are just people with big egos and little you-knows. So what if they give the meat away? It's illegal to do otherwise, isn't it? So they have a stuffed head with glass eyes and a big rack, so what? Nothing has been proven to anyone, it's all in their head.

Sue