RE: Is it shooting or hunting?
The few times and places I went when I was in central Maryland was clearly shooting and not hunting. The places open to public hunting in that area are so small that you can walk the entire area in a matter of 2 hours or so. To me, then, there is very little decision making needed to set a stand, etc. And the deer will come. Unlimited doe permits. Of course, population control was the express reason this area (Patapsco St. Park) was open to bowhunting. You did not (do not) need to exercise the same level of skill in those areas as you do many others.
Just one example of one specific place.