I accept that those who partake in blood sports see the fun element as justification for their actions.  However we live in a democratic society which sets a level of moral standards and enacts those standards via legal statutes.  

Those moral standards change over time and so do the laws that reflect those changes.  At the moment pheasant and other bird shoots are still lawful but as the wider public become more aware of them I expect that in time they will follow the likes of hare coursing and become illegal - which in my opinion will be no bad thing.

Certainly hunting is, if you like, inbred in many ways in human nature but there is a world of difference, again in my opinion, between hunting for fun and hunting for food.  

Simply put, I believe that harming or killing any animal for “fun” is morally wrong.