What i meant by that is that I don't think your taking your opinion to it's fullest extent in how you hunt. If hunting in a more difficult way is a valid form of measuring "admiration" than you should feel like you were not doing what you could to make it as much of a challange... UNLESS, your hunting method is a matter of preference.
Well it's some of both. With any thing there is a law of deminishing returns. A point at which it is not profitable to go below. While I do think bowhunting is inherently more challenging that gun hunting I think going below the compound level would be going below that law of deminishing returns, IMO. We could take that argument all the way back to the spear level but again I feel like the compound level makes hunting whitetails inherently more challenging yet still provides you with an extremely accurate and deadly weapon.