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There’s not a lot of poetry in killing seals – not in the rifle shot, nor in the swing of the infamous sealer’s club, the hakapik, not in the blood on the ice.

After the seals have been shot, dedicated "jumpers" use the hakapik hunting tool - a heavy wooden club with a hammer head and a hook.

Hunts are regulated to ensure that seals are killed quickly using a high-powered rifle, a club, or a hunting tool called a hakapik, which is a wooden staff with a hook at the end.

The seals are usually shot or bludgeoned over the head with a spiked club called a hakapik.

The pups are either shot from boats, or clubbed with a wooden bat or an iron-tipped pole called a hakapik.