Matt87 correctly points out
I bet you pounds to poundcakes that when the first boomsticks were coming into use for hunting, there were some that said only thwocksticks and stabsticks were the true hunting weapons.
Shakespeare's Hotspur has an encounter with a Gentleman who appears on the battlefield of Holmedon (1402) and declares, in effect, that these new-fangled guns have just ruined War as a proper activity for Gentlemen, else "he would himself have been a soldier."
Hotspur:
"... But I remember, when the fight was done,
When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,
Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,
Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly
dress'd,
Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin, new reap'd,
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home:
He was perfumed like a milliner, ...
... he made me mad
To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet
And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman
Of guns, and drums, and wounds,—God save the
mark!—
...And that it was great pity, so it was,
This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd
So cowardly; and but for these vile guns,
He would himself have been a soldier.
(I Henry IV, Act I Scene iii)
Of course, he's talking about war, not hunting, but I suspect he's the Ur-Fudd.)