Thread: Long-range hunting: is it sporting?

I'm not sure that hunting is best thought of as a sport. If you recover the meat and eat it it's possibly best thought of as a unique category of human activity closely linked to food gathering as in hunter-gatherer. We might have alternative sources of meat today but that needn't change anything. We might practice it today as a recreation - maybe a bit like a life style farmer who grows a bit of something and keeps a couple of sheep. In both cases it's practicing an ancient economic activity not because it's essential to survival but for its own sake. Because it's challenging and satisfying. Maybe trophy hunting is a sport. It's competitive.