Hunting in France is increasingly pressured by societal injunctions relating to animal well-being and sensitivity. This paper interrogates the way modern hunters from the French Alps are incorporating these injunctions, and analyses how they apprehend animal death and animal sensitivity. After demonstrating how the internalization of criticisms towards hunting influences both the discourses and spatial practices of hunters, this study reflects on the way hunters characterize and experience the killing of animals. The latter depends on the hunting ethics, taking into account the notion of animal suffering. Here, ethics appears as evolutive and depends on the articulation of the following tryptic: the hunting situation, species/individual animal, and the hunting territory. This tryptic determines the agency of the hunted. Thus, the diversity of the hunter/animal relationship and the status attributed to this relationship determines the degree of objectivation or subjectivation of the animal.