Why most hunters are conservative?
I suppose to properly address your question we'd have to be starting from the same definition of conservative. As you can tell from the posts on this thread, most, if not all, would fit a liberal's definition of conservative, yet they cover a broad spectrum. Personally, I'm somewhere in the middle; I don't agree with much of what I would call the more extreme sentiments expressed on this thread (for example, I believe that systemic racism does exist), but I understand why those sentiments are expressed, and believe that any government would address them as legitimate, as they do more extreme liberal views.
That out of the way, I will take small stab at answering your question. I think the reason hunters are by and large conservative includes factors such as the following:
1. Hunters tend to be more in tune with nature and have a more realistic understanding of nature than liberals, for a range of reasons. Hunters tend to be found more outside of large urban centres; liberals tend to be found in large urban centres; Hunters understand where their food comes from, and that animals die for our food, whether we kill it ourselves and bring it home or whether we buy it shrink-wrapped on a styrofoam tray and bring it home. Liberals tend to view meat on a styrofoam tray as being detached from a real, living, animal (as, of course it is, but in a different way!). Note I said "tend."
2. Hunters tend to understand that while nature is beautiful, nature is also utterly amoral; it does not care whether you live or die though often, you would think it tends to the latter. When hunters say "Mother Nature" they often mean it somewhat sarcastically. No hunter would want a mother like Mother Nature. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to view nature as benign, and wish their mothers were more like Mother Nature. Hunters tend to understand that animals will kill other animals, even of their own kind for food and/or for sex, often in ways which tend to appear enormously brutal and cruel to liberals. Hunters tend not to view this as cruel, because hunters tend not to attribute human characteristics to nature or to animals, while liberals tend to do so. Note again, I said "tend."
3. Hunters tend to be among the more self-reliant members of society. If there was a breakdown in civil order, and we found ourselves in a "back to nature" situation, hunters would likely tend to fare better than would liberals, on average. This self-reliance tends to bring about a mindset which says that I look after me and mine, and I don't look to you and yours for a bailout or a handout, so hunters tend to respond negatively when others who have no pretensions to self-reliance require hunters to look after those who have refused to look after themselves. Thus hunters will likely tell their young children such fables as the Three Little Pigs and the Squirrel and the Grasshopper at bedtime. Those who don't know what those are, or who don't get the moral, tend to be liberals. But despite being self reliant, hunters are not cruel, tend to have a strict ethical code to which they adhere, and tend not to begrudge help to those who truly need it and accept it with a measure of grace. These do not tend to be characteristics of liberals. Note those tiresome "tends" again.
4. Hunters tend to be men and men tend to be more conservative than women. Note I again said "tend."
5. Hunters these days, alas, tend to be older and older people tend to be more conservative than younger people. Note I still said "tend."
6. Hunters tend - and I haven't done sufficient research to prove this (yet) - it seems to me, to be more (traditionally) religious, perhaps as a result of spending so much time in nature, while liberals tend not to be so religious. In North America, the words religious and conservative tend to be used in tandem, while the words atheistic (or, perhaps less pejoratively, non-religious) and liberal tend to be synonymous. Again, and for the last time in this note, I said "tends."
Does this help?
