To me it is more about the hunt than just the harvest. The harvest is the bonus to the entire experience. Some prefer to bow hunt, being up close and personal where others hone their skills at the range, perfecting their hunting skills at 500 yards plus. I understand both positions very well. Each year I bow, ML, and rifle shoot for deer. Each provides a different experience which I enjoy. I honestly can not say whether it is more enjoyable or fulfilling to harvest an animal with a bow at 15 yards or with a rifle at 400 yards. Each hunting situation requires a different set of hunting skills which I practise and have been developing over 3 decades. The bows that I used 30 years ago are of no comparison to the bows I use today. The first compound bows had virtually no let off when compared to the technological advantages that today's compount bows have. This is not even considering all the other equipment such as sights, triggers, and arrows. Has these advancements made the bow hunters of today unethical? No just more efficient. It is the same for both ML and rifle hunting. What is unethical is poaching, hunting private land without permission, sitting in some one else's stand, as well as the unprepared and un-practised hunter that wounds the animal instead waiting for the right shot that allows a clean and fast kill.And this occurs from 10 to 800 yards plus.