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hippyjoe1955 Interesting! Very much a cultural matter.
I have visited Norway a few times with a group of friends, to go walking in the hills. We became friends with a resident on one village, where his home was a menagerie of stuffed animals.
Though not a Sami, he was licensed to shoot up to, I think, three, elk a year; these are edible and indeed he did once cook us a delicious casserole of meat from one he had shot.
What we did not like so much, but were polite enough not to comment, was the rest of the creatures, all inedible, from a beautiful European Lynx down to of all things, an owl with a lemming in its talons. He also showed us a photograph of a large Brown Bear he had shot; but I don't know if that was defensive or purely for the sake of shooting it.
That was shooting for the sake of it, not for food or in culling a species too numerous for its own and everyone else' good, not even in self-defence.
I think he realised we did not really agree with such "sport". We also saw him fishing one day, in a small lake. He was not catching them to eat and we didn't know if they were an edible species anyway. He just left them in the grass.