Your rebuttal, while lengthy and almost entirely tangential (while remaining true to the core statements made by so-called long range "hunters"), skirts the concept of shooting at something that has absolutely no chance of discovering or detecting that it is being hunted...thereby merely reducing the activity to a shooting exercise. Sure you've got to know some basic habits of the animal you are shooting at (hopefully), but you might as well be "hunting" a steel gong, a paper target or the far of freshly laid cowpie.
Now, if you really want to sharpen your hunting skills or increase the challenge...take up a spear!
Not my balliwick mind you, but there is a fellow hereabouts that has been doing so succesfully every year for some time now...with deer and elk...on the west side of our state - which has some of the thickest underbrush found anywhere.
He's kind of a brute of a fellow and I find it humorous when everyone takes their bragging about "bow hunted this" to "rifle hunted that" when he walks in the place.
