Everyone has an opinion BBD. Most of us consider all hunting that is both legal and ethical to be of merit.The very argument you use doesn't hold water. Your position is it isn't hunting unless you get close and kill with a bow. Lots of people on here might agree but many don't. I believe that long distance hunting does present a very difficult scenario which is on par with getting close. I won't say that a 20 yard bow shot is on par with a 100 yard rifle shot but push that back to 600 or more yards and the average hunter couldn't even get it into the animal. Taking shots with either bow or rifle without expertise is unethical. If someone has the ability to make a 700 yard shot on game then they deserve to harvest. Flinging a 40 yard shot at a deer when you can't hit a beer box at 20 is just as unethical as someone shooting at a deer at 400 yards when they haven't even practiced at anything beyond 100 yards. Both the up close bow hunter and the long distance marksman pursue the game in the same way… 100%.I still hunt and track deer in the snow at some very large and wild areas of Northern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and the vast expanses of the west for elk.Sitting on a food plot isn't my way of hunting but I respect people who choose to hunt this way. We are all hunting and as long as it is fair chase then it is ethical.