I Practice Practice Practice and after that I Practice More. For me I know My Limitations, I know what I can do and what My MLer is capable of. Now shooting Paper vs a Real Animal is totally different. For ranges out to 200yds there's just so much that can go wrong after the shot. Even if the Wind is right and you have a Solid Rest and have taken that same shot a thousand times you just cant know what will happen. Say your setteled on the Animal, He's Brodside Feeding and Relaxed, you Fire, at the Shot He takes a Step and you hit further back that you would have liked. How were you to know the Animal was going to move just as you shot, you could'nt have, now was this a Unethetical Shot? if so then all shots would be considered Unethetical as you cant read the Mind of the Animal or see into the Future.
So all anyone can do is do there Best at the time of the shot, sure in 99% of the cases you'll be on, but you just never know what will happen that 1% of the other time.
I live in Farm Country, I Hunt both the Hardwoods and Open Fields, (Corn, Soybean ect) Sure 'd like to have every Animal within 50yds of My sights but it does'nt always happen that way, so in the Open Fields I may have to settle for a 150yd plus shot or go without taking the Animal I've been Hunting, can I make the Shot, sure if all goes well and that's all we can hope for at any given time. Im sure there's Some Bow Hunters among us and they have had a Deer at 15 yds Brodside Feeding, a Ethical Shot, Yes, after the shot the Deer Jumps the string and you either miss or get a Bad Hit, now was this a Ethical Shot, Yes, but the outcome was'nt what you expected because you could'nt see into the Future.
We All know what our Limitations are and what we should do or should'nt, but even then sometimes things just dont go as planned. So all we can do is our best at what we do and hope the best is good enough.
(BP)