Mage Hunting and Personal Magic Defense, Astral Hazing is for the lazy Options

[Loch]

So I'm contemplating making a bounty-hunting adept who specializes in tracking down and neutralizing Awakened threats, either for profit or for personal motive. This thread is for both ways to target and bring down Awakened characters/critters, and ways to protect oneself from magical forms of attack and observation. Here's the list so far:

Astral Perception+Assensing: The entry-level stuff for Mage-huntin'. You can't very well call yourself a witch hunter if you can't identify them from the general populace or track them by their signatures, can you?

Counterspelling: Obvious defense to spells.

Shade: Drug that works well enough for assassin mages, but can also be used by would-be mage assassins in a reciprocal fashion. Even if you can't astrally project to finish the mage off astrally, you certainly can shoot/blow up/run over/toss the mage's body in a woodchipper. (Note that this may not work for certain heavily-armored mages out there)

Astral Hazing: Boo hiss. Boring, but effective. Also comes with the downside that you'll probably never find a mage willing to work closely with you (but if you're going down this path, you might not care too much about that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif) )

Mana Barriers: Available in both standard and Offensive types, this is a basic way to keep the awakened at arm's length.