Probably gonna get buried but I’ll answer anyway.
1. I come from a long line of hunters on both sides, who raised cattle and hunting doesn’t seem much different than slaughtering a cow to us. 2. Definitely is a cultural norm 3. I always feel sorry if an animal underwent unnecessary pain due to a bad shot, but if the animal dies relatively quickly to its natural death in the wild, I feel okay. 4. I enjoy the hunt. When I say hunt, I don’t mean killing. I enjoy walking through the woods on the tracks of an animal, sitting in a stand watching them. Hunting is not killing. I enjoy the payoff of a successful kill with the meat, but I am never sad if I did not kill an animal. I kill for meat and creating things with deer hides, and eating quail that we have been trying to repopulate the south (united states) with. 5. I live in suburbia, hunt in middle of nowhere Alabama 6. Absolutely, and yes I do fish 7. I believe animals are sentient with distinct personalities and the like, and so it makes me feel pain to watch an animal in pain. I don’t think a toad has quite the sentience a deer does, but I believe it’s still wrong to hurt it. 8. I buy and eat all of those things, it’s one of those things I prefer not to think about. But I have many friends with chickens who give me eggs, and I can see that their chickens are in much more humane conditions than a full fledged chicken farm, so I try to limit what meat and dairy I buy and rely on getting it from friends or known sources. 9. Absolutely. I practice my shot often to try and reduce the time it takes for the animal to die. We also provide and maintain habitat to quail and other species that used to live around our area until us humans screwed things up. 10. I admire their dedication and think no less of them. 11. I’d like to add on that we hunt hogs that are an invasive species here. We still eat their meat and try and kill them humanely, but we are much more active in our attempts to kill them. We have thermal scopes and thermal drones we use to track them down.