WHY IS HUNTING CLASSIFIED AS A SPORT?

I am you opponent. Go to the sports page. Who cares what something is to you. Do your thing and don't try to set parameters for others by announcing you personal thoughts.It's cold out and the winter is boring this question and answer are the result,my thought.

It is a sport because it requires that one face the tracking, stalking, and killing of game animals. You might not think they are on the same playing field, and you are both right and wrong. A deer cannot fight you at long distance, but they can hear and smell you much farther away then you can sense them. They can also run much faster than you can. If you hunt a wild bore and make a mistake, they will kill you. This is why it is a sport. It also harkens back to a time when man had to hunt with "caveman weapons" although are distant ancestors were much more fit genetically and it is thought they had a greater resistance to injury and pain. Back then it was "kill and eat" or "be killed and eaten".

actually, you perfectly answered your question.

there are two opponents here, a hunter and the wild game, the rules may have changed to the hunter's advantage, but legal hunting(fair chase) is a challenge, your only thinking of those lazy TV hosts that sit there in a tree stand and wait for their buck, not all hunters are like that, many like me are stalkers and glassers, we stalk our prey and work for the meat, don't downplay hunting because of what you see on TV, in most cases it's not the same at all.

the only hunting that I've seen on TV that makes sense is when their hunting dall, bighorn sheep or mountain goats in the mountains of the north, there your working for your meat, moose hunting is the same way, you have to stalk them, get close(often in brush conditions) and take your shot, there's always the danger of be charged and trampled, seriously, never downplay us hunters.

also, what gives you the right to set the rules on what is a sport? no one, a sport is what you make it.

if you don't agree with what I'm saying, too bad, live with it, cause it's not going away.

You are confusing sports with games. Hunting and fishing are sports. As soon as you have a playing field, arena, court and the like, you have a game.

* " The Mark of Your Ignorance is the Depth of Your Belief."..." Hunting is Fun, Enjoyable, Recreational, Pleasurable, and Entertaining; Killing is neither Fun, Enjoyable, Recreational, Pleasurable, or Entertaining to us True Hunters who Hunt, Pursue, and Harvest Wild Game for ourselves, family, friends, and fellow hunters."... " No True Hunter derives any Pleasure, or Satisfaction from just the Killing alone of any animal that he Hunts for Food & Sport."...True Hunters have a Deep, and Abiding Love, and Compassion for all the Animals that they Hunt, Pursue, and Harvest.* Wildlife is a Natural Renewable Resource put on this Earth to be harvested for food, recreation, and sport, as well as to observe them alive, and living within their natural environment.* Yes Hunting has been a Sport now for 13,000 Thousand years in case you were not aware of when it first began.*

hunting and fishing isnt all fun and games if your a serius outdoorsman. Its just plain work. Its not for the lazy people.In some ways the animal hunted has an upper advantage like smell and sight that is better than ours and naturaly blend into the environment and can run faster. Its kind of like chess i guesswho can outwhit who.

and 2 people going out hunting to shoot a deer have an equal playing field and an equal chance of getting the win (the deer) under the same rules.

besides hunting itself there are all sorts of different kinds of shooting tournaments that are competitions among one another

DON"T USE CAPLOCKS. ITS CONSIDERED RUDE BECAUSE YOU'RE BASICALLY SHOUTING!!!

There are two types of hunting: sport/subsistence hunting and commercial hunting. In sport or subsistence hunting a person is hunting for his own use. Essentially he's after food for his table or a trophy. In commercial hunting, a person is killing as many animals as possible because he or she intends to sell the meat commercially. Commercial hunting has been banned, leaving sport/subsistence hunting.

Sounds like you hit it dead on! Actually there are a lot more times that I go deer hunting when the deer win than when I win.

That's the very definition of hunting, then. If it were always easy, then it'd be called blasting. Critters still win more often than people do.