How many guys get their bow out 2 weeks before bow season and "practice" shooting the pie plate at 20 yards and proclaim "good enough" and then go out deer hunting? Are their kills more impressive than and avid gun hunter that practices year round?
Apples and oranges, if your going to compare, then compare.
What about a guy who dusts his gun off the morning of the hunt....
If your going to compare a guy who rifle practices all year and then compare him to a guy who practices bow all year and yes, bowkill is still more impressive to me. Your not going to sway that opinion.
If a guy digs out his bow the 2 weeks before the hunt and compare that to a rifle hunter digging his rifle out 2 weeks before the hunt and still bow kill is more impressive.
We have to put the rifle hunter and bow hunter in the same hunt scenerio to properly compare the two.
In doing so, a buck at 100 yards for both the bowhunter and the rifle hunter...bang hunt is over....bow goes without so the bowkill again, more impressive.
A buck at 20 yards...for a rifle...a gimme...for a bowhunter..hell I've missed at 16 yards...guess what I'm still impressed more when I see a bowkill...