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One of the chief goals of ethical hunting is ensuring a humane death and when an animal does not die quickly it is a tragedy. Additional training would certainly be welcome, as it would only improve a hunter’s ability to carry out ethical hunting. In one way hunting is more humane than natural predation. When large predators, such as wolves, capture prey the death may not be quick. Prey species are often chased before capture and suffer greatly before death. (Also there is already an extremely powerful, though selfish, motive for insuring a quick and precise death: retrieving wounded animals requires miles of