ORIGINAL: leben_sie_gut
I think I'd have to stick with the school of thought that considers not eliminating anything that could lead to an wounded and unretrievable animal unethical....I've done enough shooting at 400-500 yards to know it doesn't take much of a breeze or movement on the part of the shooter to push a bullet out of a animal's vital zone.
It falls more under using animals for targets than it does hunting. Just MHO.
That school of thought means that all hunting is unethical. Anytime human judgement and behavior is involved, you CANNOT possibly eliminate everything that could lead to a wounded animal. Eliminating everything that can lead to a wounded animal eliminates hunting all together....because hunting CAN lead to a wounded animal. Pretty simple logic.