I don’t hunt. Don’t care for it, had no possibility to either.
But, we as a species have had thousands of years where the man went out to hunt for food for his family. This instinct is still there, even though it is no longer necessary. But I’d imagine that is the reason that hunters hunt. It’s an activity we have been wired to do.
Some of us found other ways to “hunt”, like gaming, or chasing work goals, basically anything that will require you to focus for a while on one single thing with a clearly defined goal to get to. But I can imagine if you are raised in family where hunting is still done, it would be easy to pick it up for yourself.
It’s not a fair game at all anymore. It’s also pretty diffult to do it otherwise. No sane person will risk their live everytime they go hunt. Used to be that way, but no more.
It has gone from a necessity to something people do for sport, but there is hardly any sport to it when you can’t really lose. Well, I guess you could be a really bad shot and go home with nothing?