No
I can't. I've "killed" steel animals - lots and lots of them. It's not as much fun (for me at least) as hunting - even when "hunting" doesn't result in any killing.
To each their own, I get it I once did it....then my life changed and I did not want to kill anymore....really anything. Mice/rats and starlings are really the only thing that I will remove, starlings are air rats to me, nothing but nasty diese filled trash and not native to us in the first place.
You say when the "hunting" does not result in any killing, there came a time when I sat out there in a tree, watched a big....and I am talking BIG buck walk not 20 yards away, this was really a once and a lifetime deal he was just that perfect. And I looked at him, and just let him go. I sat there and really just came unglued, there was a man that told me once you take all the things you did, lock it away in a little box tuck it in the corner of your brain and toss the key. It worked for quite a while, but when that lock failed it really failed.
This can hit many people in different ways, some become homeless, get divorced, drink, even hit the off switch, it has happened to many people around my age that had like experiences. The thing that hit me is I don't want to ever kill again, I am not sure how my mind works around the mice and starlings but it does.
I can walk and have walked out back to my shooting area, sat a single shot 22lr down on my bench and just sat there, like I said looking at the trees and listening to the wind....you can feel everything be taken away by the wind.
I have even been back there shooting, something big I don't remember and have had deer come up behind me in the brush....scare the hell out of me, and I would sit there and look at her, and she would look at me. Minutes ago loud booms going on, and there she was. Turkey on my berm.
That was a long babble.
But where I was trying to go was there are so many things we can do with these evil guns that do not center around killing. I love "killing" little orange frizbees flying through the air, great fun. I love killing steel animals. The anti gun world needs to know that even hand guns have a use past killing.
sorry bout that.