What is the difference between shooting and hunting?

Question

in the UK, does "hunting" mostly means fox hunting (which is forbidden) and shooting - game shooting?

Answer 1

well..  in the US  shooting is just having fun shooting targets and clay birds..  and hunting is when you go out int he woods and kill animals to eat them lol..  pretty simple

Answer 2

Shooting is  for killing enemies or hitting a point and hunting is to killing or catching  animals for food.

Answer 3

they are basically the samething but wen hunting they use all kinds of things to kill the animal or watever.

Answer 4

In america, everything you hunt for is considered hunting.  Shooting is more when you murder someone with a gun.

Answer 5

Shooting is just that, shooting a weapon. Hunting means that you are on the look-out for something to shoot.

Answer 6

They both mean you have a little p***s.  

Answer 7

they mean the same thing except when to hunt to use guns, traps, etc....

Answer 8

Shooting means using guns. Hunting foxes means a pack of beagles and a troop of horses and riders.

Answer 9

Shooting is projecting an object at speed using some form of 'equipment'  e.g. a gun, sling / catapult, pea shooter at a target.

Hunting is looking for prey with the aim of killing it, the activity a cat, owl, weasel or fox does.

Fox hunting is not forbidden, it was made illegal to use dogs to pursue them!