Unsportsmanlike(?) Hunting
I very much agree with you guys. Personally, I don't even hunt with dogs, but have no objection to that unless done in what I call a "jackass" manner. The jackass system is when you use lots of fast pick-up trucks, everybody has a CB or portable radio, and drive fast and furious on a frequently crisscrossed road system to almost run the deer to death with your dogs and PU's. Then shoot the animal from your PU hood as it slowly struggles up the last embankment.
The change in how some people hunt is just one more indication of how a lot of thinking has changed, on ALL issues.
People used to be proud of HOW they did things; nowadays, many do not believe in ethics or morals, but only in "having the edge" or "winning is the ONLY thing that matters". People get caught up in this misguided way of seeing life, until one day they may realize they really have no value system. We see the dishonest greed at Enron, Arthur Andersen, Worldcom, and others as evidence of that. Those kind of people weaken our country more than Al Quida and other terroists ever will.
Some "sportsmen" even pay to shoot "as released from pen" game.
Be calm in your knowledge that if you ever must depend on your hunting skills, you will have them. The "paper tiger" sportsmen will be begging the real hunters for something to eat.