Yep! I hunt a lot don’t kill every time. I go fishing a lot don’t catch every time. In the end I kill it a grill it. In the case of trout, my wife does the eating, Id rather have perch. They crop elephants to control the herds. Locals eat it. If you don’t like hunting fine gives me more room. I don’t eat wolves or coyotes but I kill them every chance I get. Might say we’re competitors on the food chain. I pay to play deal with it.
I have had a hunting license every year since 1965 (including while I was in the Corps), I go hunting every year.
I have brought home antelope, elk, venison, and bear.
Mainly a bird hunter now because the larger game is no longer a sporting affair, once you know how and where to kill them, the sport just goes out of it.
Plus I am getting older and don’t feel like humping a hind quarter out of the back country, birds are lighter and easier to carry.
As far as the varmints (coyotes, bears, mountain lions, no wolves here “yet”) are concerned, I will and have killed them if they start to go after my livestock or dogs.
Otherwise just no reason to end their lives, so I don’t.