Gryph.

You're not thinking clearly.

EVERY additional restriction on hunting is a stepping-stone as far as the antis are concerned. You're just advocating giving them a whole stone-quarry in one hit.

Nobody has bothered to argue for a decent dividing line between "canned" and "wild" that is based on anything other than emotions.

Some hunters are lazy?
So what?

I hunted 20 years (on and off) before I got my first Sambar. I know people who shot one on their first walk into the bush. Are we to argue that they are "lazy", or that they should not be permitted to fire a shot on their first five hunts?

All.......
Let's be really clear about what is a valid criteria for objecting to something, and what is not.

It is no more "cruel" to shoot a penned lion than a wild one. Especially as the wild one has more chance of escaping, wounded.

A really "lazy" hunter is the bloke who buys his meat in the form of snags from the supermarket, AND YOU ALL HAVE!

I stand by the right of people to farm livestock and sell it in the most profitable way - as long as it does not involve unreasonable suffering.