Not sporting. If you truly need food, makes sense.
Here, that kind of thing is called feed-and-shoot-not hunting. Anyone who considers that hunting or sport should just pay a rancher to let them go to their pasture and shoot a cow...
Recurve bow hunters think compound bow hunters are not sporting.
Compound bow hunters think gun hunting is not sporting.
Long range gun hunters think 100-yard shots are not sporting.
Public land hunters think guys who hunt big ranches inside a fence are not sporting.
Low fence hunters think high fence is not sporting.
Big ranch hunters think suburban hunters are not sporting.
Now it’s not sporting to use a trail cam....
Sometimes hunting is for food. Sometimes for the challenge. Sometimes for the comradery and thrill.
The fact is, human beings need to preserve the skill set of killing their food. It’s not easy to sit still for hours hunting an animal that has a better sense of sight, sound and smell than you do. It’s also not always easy to put an animal in your sights (gun or bow) and make a good kill.
I think most of the hunting snobs I see comment here don’t know crap about hunting.
Agreed, not sporting.
THAT’S WHY I DON’T DO IT.