“Mountain hares are now routinely culled on a large scale on many grouse moors in Scotland. This practice has developed relatively recently in the belief that it protects red grouse against the tick-borne louping ill virus, despite the lack of scientific evidence to support this claim.” (http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/article/scottish-wildlife-organisations-call-to-ban-mountain-hare-cull/)
Head keeper grouses about hare loss.
Ecomical 
Forget any discussion about science. These people are always looking for an excuse to kill. If you disproved tick-borne virus, they’d think of something else.
Here’s a piece of trust-worthy science: spread the word: desire to cull innocent creatures is inversely proportional to penis size.
That explains it! And the female shooters too 🙂 After researching Cull the Killing, I concluded that shooters must have a drastically different worldview to me. I couldn’t find even one rationale for why they shoot — and I really wanted to find one! If they can’t engage with us on this I think their ‘sport’ will increasingly become eroded as our sense of morality evolves without them. And they’ve failed to control deer numbers! Many thanks for your comment.
Sport my bottom! It would be sport if the grouse and deer were armed too. Now that would be worth watching. You could sell tickets to a cull of chinless wonders.
🙂 Bring back bears! Or even just wolves. That would sort the ecosystem and level the playing field a little. Cheers again.
Declare open season on hunters!