WrongHanded
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....and I don't spend much time in the woods. (FWIW, I work in the city, and live in the outer suburbs.)
From my personal perspective (and from that perspective alone) the best thing about hunting is to have a good reason and a purpose to be in the woods.
I've put down animals with a gun before, I've butchered more than I like to recall, and I've found animals in the wilderness on many occasions. But as for being a hunter and killing an animal that I'm actually pursuing (barring one rabbit), I've yet to accomplish that. I jumped through all the hoops and read all the laws precisely to give me a good excuse to be out there in the wilderness, wandering around and scouting for potential hunting areas. Then I got interested in tracking too.
And again (solely from my perspective) if you aren't drawn to the woods and aren't interested in the life there, if you don't want to learn to dress and butcher your own game and you don't need the meat, I'm not sure what the point would be other than killing an animal, and also knowing that you could do it again.
It's perfectly fine with me if people don't want to hunt, for whatever reasons they have. But if you want to know you could do it if you needed to, you don't need to learn any laws or jump through any hoops for that. You just need to learn how to find game in the woods, and practice doing it without scaring them off. And independently from that, learn to shoot with reasonable accuracy from field positions. Then if A ever needs to meet B to put food on the table, you can already do both.