Your kidding right? With a compound or recurve up in a tree stand. You have perform 3 times the steps including being close. With a gun, you see a deer, you point and fire. And have the luck of firing well out of site of movement with the deer. With a bow, you usually have to stand up, then unless you hold your bow the whole time, grab your bow and take it off your holder/hook, whatever. Then you have to knock it or with a release, knock that on. And finally pull back and aim with this critter being right up on you. At least three times the movement and IMO 3 to 4 times more difficult. Not to mention how critical your form needs to be. You can shoot left handed half drunk with a gun and still knock something down with a ML or rifle.