Back in the day I took a couple pals out to shoot some antelope. My friends and I trained together as LE snipers regularly. These boys were good. We all shot bucks at ridiculous ranges over the course of a week or so. These guys didn't hunt and would never have called themselves hunters. I was a lifelong hunter. None of what we did could be rightfully called hunting. We wanted to take some really hard shots and I knew where to find some really cool targets.
Hunting? Not hardly. That's the difference as I see it.
Could this same crew have hunted elk in dark timber and all taken a bull? Doubt it.