I just thought I would jump in here. I think it takes both equal amounts of skill. I have in fact been up on many more elk during the bow season then the rifle season. But that being said in someplace like Colorado where I grew up all the gun really does is saves some time and some walking. I think it is hunting skill not gun or bow hunting skill. That being said, I like to get out and just enjoy the wilderness, so hunting whitetails I like to move around, hunt from the ground, and still hunt. People around where I hunt sometimes say that is stupid that I don't use a tree stand. It is just my choice on how I want to do it. Don't think it makes me any less or more of a good hunter. But I am sure since it is on public land someone in a tree stand would be super pissed at me since I am not staying in one place and say that I am not doing it right. Sorry just thought I would play a little devils advocate.