Hunting Comments

Hunting, sport that involves the seeking, pursuing, and killing of wild animals and birds, called game and game birds, primarily in modern times with firearms but also with bow and arrow.
Camouflages and disguises were used to conceal the early hunter, who also used nooses, traps, snares, pits, decoys, baits, and poisons.
A distinction between hunting for sport and hunting for food was made early. For the Normans the chase was principally for meat from the early Middle Ages on, and it was organized to provide the most kills for the least effort.
Those preying on wild creatures for amusement limited their means so as to give the quarry a fair chance to escape and to avoid unnecessary suffering of wounded game. The code demands that a hunter who wounds an animal must track down and kill it.
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