Is it good to kill animals if you eat them - but evil to kill them but not eat them? I can't see how it's much worse, because unless there is a huge famine and all you can eat is what you kill, then eating a deer is just an extension of the fun of hunting it and shooting it, if you like that sort of thing. We are not living at subsistence level, after all.
If you were a deer and a hunter had cornered you and you had no way to escape, the hunter says "I'm going to kill you now, deer." you'd be horrified. If the hunter says "I'm going to kill you now, and then later, I am going to cut off your skin and hang you up until all your blood drains out, then I will chop you into bits and invite many of my specied to come and put your parts on the fire where they will roast and then we will all eat you".
You may be tempted to say, "Look mate, just shoot me and bury me in the woods will you?"
just a thought.....