From a strictly ethical standpoint, many more deer are wounded with bowhunting then with gun hunting, so in a sense, one could argue that bowhunting is a less ethical way of hunting an animal. However, it is unfair to evaluate ehtics based soley on the method of hunting, in that because a deer is not recovered does not meaen it hasn't died. Deer are not magical mystical creatures, they are animals. They are food on hooves for something, whether or not they are recovered.