Yes, 'trophy hunting' is what sickens me.
Those who need to get-off on collecting 'trophies' shouldn't be allowed to own firearms in the first place.
I grew up in Appalachia where deer season shuts down businesses. I've never been able to grasp the "challenge" of sitting in a stand for 4 hours drinking beer, then blowing a hole in the lungs of a walking herbivore (who is afraid of your shadow).
These are the grown up versions of the kid who who finds a turtle and bashes in its shell with a rock, because he can.
The only phenomenon that has ever made me think Freud may have been right about all that phallic insecurity business.