Nice equipment.
Nice set up.
Nice shot.
Reach out and touch something.
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For those who say, "Yeah, I'll just stalk incloser" because I am a real (ethical) hunter.... yeah right....
That bull was across canyon and climbing UP steep terrain.... quickly.
By the time one drugones sorry arse to the bottom and started up the other side in rifle season, that bull would likelyhave been in the next drainage and/or next county. These aren't whitetails.

More like,
"Yeah, I'll move closer and just try to find something else, somewhere, hopefully."
And that sure can work and nothing wrong with it, but don't confuse it with automatic superiority and possession of the moral high ground.

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Have you everseen the aftermath of a herd of 400-500 pressured elk blundering into a basin full of so called "ethical, "short range" hunters on public land in medium coverwithin about two miles of the road? Sickening. Wounding and intentional abandonment of game on a grand scale. Gutted legal bulls left untagged for something better. Gutted cows left for something else (Either sex tags available in some areas in Colorado.... pop the cow and then while field dressing it, here comes the bull... bang). The bloated carcasses of the ones that were not found (perhaps not even pursued), those werethe first ones we came to since they ran back away from the road towards our positions.

We were taking out the elk we got into (six of them that morning) using horses and coming from5 miles back in....tried hard not to look too far left or too far right.... just look aheadand get past it and getback to the main camp and take care of our little piece of the world. What a slaughter, hadn't seen anything like it before or since.

Short range = automatically ethical?
I don't buy it. Seen otherwise.

Long range = automatically unethical?
I don't buy that either. Seen otherwise.