Here's my take. Backing off or remaining at these distances on purpose just to see if you can still hit the animal is target shooting not hunting. If you are trying to get closer but have to take shots of this distance because you can'tmake it within1000 yards without spooking the animals you intend to shoot, then you are actually trying to hunt; you just suck very, very, badly at it. I'll leave it to the ones taking 1000 yard shots to tell us which applies to them.