Hunting Poem by Irene Hooks

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.
Hunters who consider themselves sportsmen uphold the code.

The gun greatly increased the hunter's ability to kill game at greater distances and in larger numbers, and every improvement in the range, accuracy, and rapidity of fire further increased the kill.
Nothing more efficient than a double-barreled shotgun is used. The hunter's ability to kill was increased.
The supply of game seemed limitless, just as the availability and fertility of the land did.
Hunting as sport was reflected only in the very popular shooting match. The pioneer tradition of "every man a hunter" persisted
The mark of a farm or small town boy's coming of age was when he received a gun for hunting.
In open country where game can be viewed from afar and, conversely, game can see the hunter, a slow stealthy approach, stalking, is necessary, taking advantage of even small cover and being careful that the wind does not blow the scent of the hunter to the prey.
In dense forest, undergrowth, brush, or scrub, the hunter, unable to see more than a few yards, walks slowly and cautiously, ever alert,