Hunting methods

thumb|upright=1.2|Archery competition in June 1983 at Mönchengladbach, [[West Germany]]

thumb|upright=1.35|Glenn Eller surgery at [[2008 Summer Olympics double trap finals]] thumb|upright=1.35|Olympic competitive air rifle shooting by Nancy Johnson in Sydney 2000 Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can be considered acts of shooting. When using a firearm, the act of shooting is often called firing as it involves initiating a combustion (deflagration) of chemical propellants.

hunting technique

cliff formation of Native American historical importance used to hunt plains bison

science and art of observing animal tracks

converging drystone walls in the Middle East, to aid in hunting herd animals

thumb|right|250px|The Hunter, oil on canvas, Alfred Kowalski Coursing by humans is the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs—chiefly greyhounds and other sighthounds—catching their prey by speed, running by sight, but not by scent. Coursing was a common hunting technique, practised by the nobility, the landed and wealthy, as well as by commoners with sighthounds and lurchers. In its oldest recorded form in the Western world, as described by Arrian—it was a sport practised by all levels of society, and it remained the case until Carolingian period forest law appropriated hunting grounds, or

Domestication procedure for elephants