Thread: Hunting vs Shooting

Im not sure if this has been covered before & I don't want to start a bun fight but what do guys think is the difference ?

I just did some Googling & came up with.

Hunting.
The activity or sport of pursuing game.
The act of conducting a search for something: house hunting.
The pursuit and killing or capture of game and wild animals, regarded as a sport.
The activity of hunting wild animals or game, esp. for food or sport.

Shooting, this was a little harder
The sport or pastime of shooting with a gun.
To discharge (a weapon).
The act of discharging a weapon or letting fly a missile.

I figure that shooting is like shooting at targets, paper, steel etc, that are fixed or only move in a certain way, "running boar" clay birds etc.

Hunting is where you are actively looking for an animal to shoot, that is able to move, escape, under their own free will.

I have seen & heard where people consider spotlighting, long range hunting etc as "just shooting"

I consider it to be hunting as you set out with the purpose of returning home with the meat/trophy.

Every type of hunting has it's own skill sets, whether it is roaring in a Stag or chasing pigs with dogs, to be sucessful you need to know what you are doing.

Where I used to live I could walk 5-10mins & get a pig that was wrecking the paddocks, during the day it was hunting, with a light it was shooting ???
Can't see the difference, to be fair during the day was a lot easier & you could generally get more of the mob as they took off after the first shot.
Either way I had to go & look for them, even if it was only to look out the Kitchen window to see if it was worth the effort