ORIGINAL: HNI_Christine
ORIGINAL: muley69
From a strictly ethical standpoint, many more deer are wounded with bowhunting then with gun hunting,
Not to be a pain, but more deer are wounded by gun hunters. (in simple overall numbers)
The percentages might be different, but not even the 'sharpshooters' can boast a zero wounding rate.
Strive to be accurate, take onlyhigh percentage shots within your effective range, obey the game lawsand you should be able to sleep at night.
When dealing with the question of ethics, I believe the only important number is: which activity offers the greatest chance of wounding an animal, the answer is unequivically a bow. At least in terms of modern hunting equipment. Ethics is a sticky question in general, is it ethical to sit in a tree and lie in wait? Is it ethical to use modern technology, or perhaps even unethical NOT to use the most modern equipment. I guess the point is that ethics afield can get a little ridiculous like everything else. At the end of the day itis steak on hooves, and even if you don't recover it, you have fed some other critter and perhaps saved the animal from a very painful winter of starvation. That is not to say I condone wounding animals, but it happens. I will say I really don't see the need to post about it on here.