USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN HUNTING

"...progress in weapons is foreign to the essence of hunting,
that reason is not a primary ingredient of it, since *hunting
cannot substantially progress* [italics his]...

...as the weapon became more and more effective, man imposed more
and more limitations on himself as the animal's rival in order to
leave it free to practice its wily defenses, in order to avoid
making the prey and the hunter excessively unequal, as if passing
beyond a certain limit, transforming it into pure killing and
destruction. Hence the confrontation between man and animal has a
precise boundary beyond which hunting ceases to be hunting, just
at the point where man lets loose his immense technical
superiority - that is, rational superiority - over the
animal. The fisherman who poisons the mountain brook to
annihilate suddenly, all at once, the trout swimming in it, ipso
facto ceases to be a hunter."

"To exterminate or to destroy animals by an invincible and
automatic procedure is not hunting."

"...present day hunting...consists precisely in restraining
itself, in its limiting its own intervention." [pp.45-46]

Jose Ortega y Gasset. 1942 (1985 ed.). "Meditations on
Hunting". Charles Scribner's and Sons, New York. ISBN 0-684-18630-6