Oh, geez. Statistics on BOTH sides of this issue, at least in the US, have been skewed to get whatever results were wanted.

Now -- when you say "hunt" do you mean fox hunting (i.e., riding to hounds), or do you mean pursuing game with the intent of killing and eating it?

I was brought up hunting, and I still do it (unsuccessfully, but it does get me out of doors). Besides firarms safety, the BIG rule was and it that if you kill it, you eat it. The only other excuse for killing something was and is in defense of your or another's life, and frankly, that's damned rare.

So that leaves out fox hunting (unless the folks who do it have strange culinary tastes indeed). Wilde was right about it.

As long as the species hunted are not endangered or even threatened, I have no problem with it. ESPECIALLY if the weapons used are traditional bow and arrow, muzzleloaders, or single-shot rifles -- the hunter has to be pretty darned good to use any of these -- and no telescopic sights!