[Peer]

Hai Dan,
I agree hunting is nessecary but no more than you need, no more than you can eat.
The idea that it is nessecary because they otherwise would starve in winter is turning things upside down.
Why didn't they starve before mankind had firearms?
I've heard these story's before and it is nonsense.
Nature will rule itself and doesn't need the white man's infinite wisdom.

What's more important is:
When you have shot an animal, be it rabbit or elk do you know how to skin it?
What to do with the skin?
Will you use the liver and kidney's
What can we make out of the guts and the tendons or will we leave them there to rot and eventually contaminate a watersource or attract foxes, wolves, bears and wolverines?

Absolute nono's:
Aftershave, soap (perfumed or not).
No chewing-gum.
It will take about 3-4 days for your smell to become "natural" and by natural I mean non-chemical and you will not scare animals away by your strange "non-forest" smell.
Many soldiers died in Vietnam because the VC detected them by the smell of their aftershave and their chewing-gum and they themselves were packed in such a cloud of chemical smell that they wouldn't detect a pile of elephantdung if they stood in it.
No shaving cause a beard is good camouflage.
No talking.
By talking you don't hear the birdsounds changing.
Ever heard birdsounds changing when you were walking in the forest?
They see you and warn each other.
Every animal hears it too and detects you long before you detect the animal.
Listen to the birds and if they suddenly become silent be very attentive because it might mean there is another hunter nearby and you yourself are probably the prey.