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I don't personally hunt. I never have, I'm a vegan, so I likely never will unless it is a task for genuine survival.
I don't mind hunters. I was raised in a family who hunts, out on the family land in WV they'd often hunt squirrels for making jerky. I think in a lot of areas where natural predation has been curtailed by human activity over the last few hundred to thousand years, it is potentially imperative that hunters do what they do. Near my hometown, there were semi-annual deer culls because the wild population was too high and could eventually cause a local ecological collapse.
I find sport hunting to be an atrocious waste of life. If you hunt an animal, you should make use of every usable part of that animal. Hides should be tanned and made into leather. Fur should be shorn off, and if it's long enough used to make yarns, otherwise used to make tinder. Large deposits of fat or gristle should be rendered to use as fuels, lubricants, or for cooking. Bones should be dried, crushed and burned to use as fertilizer. Sinuous fibers should be kept to make threads. Organs should be used as bait for fishing, or left out for carrion birds, or used to gather flies (and therefore maggots, to use for fishing).
As far as I can tell, every part of every animal can be, and therefore should be used.
I have no issues with hunting or hunters. I hate waste though. Especially wasted life.