I think everybody would agree that its easier to kill a deer with a rifle than with a bow, but I dont see that "fairness" has any place in a discussion of hunting by legal methods. If you introduce that concept, then is it fair to use a climbing treestand? or steel broadheads, or a compound bow, or any device made by modern technology. Maybe it would be more fair to say that as hunters we should go out butt naked and make our own equipment without any tools other than what we can fabricate with our own hands. It still wouldnt be fair though, we have more brain power than a deer.