Wow Ken, you must be older than me if your father hunted to put food on the table!
However, comparing today’s version of hunting to, hunter gathering of old just doesn’t hold true today. Hunting today is orchestrated kills. We know where the prey is. Trapped in geographical areas they would not normally be in but due to development and greed, natural habitats are all but gone!
Squirrel hunting with a shotgun, that’s just not fare! You can walk to within a few feet of almost all prey today! Bird hunting is just redneck target practice. It’s not, “The Hunt”, anymore.
I have eaten, quail, Dove, Duck, Geese I have hunted as a boy. I trapped Muskrat in the winter and skinned them for pelts. In the Air Force I reached Marksman with the M-16 and M9 in 9mm and .40 variants.
I spent a few years in Utah and Idaho. There are very few natural predators to keep the Elk populations down. Yet you can go to public feeding places deep in the mountains where fish and game through public donations, place hay out daily during the winter months. That’s because during the winter months the Elk can no longer come down to the valleys in winter to feed because of the development of the valleys! You can take a sleigh ride right up to the Elk and some times reach out and pet them as they eat! They are no longer afraid of people! They have to be hunted and it is no easy task, yeah finding them is, it’s packing them out once they fall in the mountains that is the problem!  The hunting is really no sport, nor hard to do. A 1,300 lb Bull Elk is not easy to carry out!
Around here, cars kill enough deer to keep the populations down.
As an excuse for keeping the Second Amendment of the Constitution, hunting was never the issue!
As long as the American People have the right to bear arms, there will never be political oppression, well, until Bush came along and totally disregarded the rest of the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence makes the most compelling argument for, The Right to Bear Arms. Had we not had firearms, we would most assuredly be under British rule today!
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.  That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The simple fact of protection makes the Right to Bear Arms as important today as in 1776. Very few murders or robberies have been prevented by Law Enforcement. They will not be there before your emergency. As Katrina showed us, if you are poor, you will not elicit a life saving response by the Federal Government during a natural disaster! Sad, but true!
So, if you must hunt Ken, go ahead. I would take pictures, not trophies.  I chose to trade in my hunter-gatherer skills for challenges in Science and Math for the betterment of mankind. Killing defenseless wildlife holds no thrill or challenge for me. I have evolved.