Long range hunting is an oxymoron.
Lot's of moralizing and value judgments here.
Just because you or I like to sneak in close doesn't mean that people who don't are not "hunting." There are a lot of different reasons people hunt, even a lot of different reasons I hunt over the course of a year. I might bow hunt in September for the challenge and the charge I get out of calling in a bull elk and shooting it within 30 yards.
If I don't get my bull, I might get a late season cow tag and hunt solely to fill my freezer. If I see a herd of cows out on the prairie, over on the next hill at 600 yards with no cover between us, settle in, and make a shot that I've practiced literally a thousand times, am I not hunting?
Would I have been a "better hunter" if I'd attempted to sneak in to 300 yards? Or 200 yards? How close do I need to get before I'm hunting?
