I dislike these threads where ethics and that's not hunting come up due to range, caliber or method. Honestly I can care less. I'm not ever going to be shooting at any animal at 1000 yards with a pistol.
It seems some hunters have a little bit of PETA rub off on them and raise animals on a pedestal above humans. To make any animal suffer would be cruel. Yet this fellow posted up a video where the animal crashed in the normal time frame, so no undue suffering. Folks still bust his chops on it. I can guarantee over the years everyone here has had a big game animal that lasted longer than it took for that one to expire. So in other words there is no merit to the range being unethical if the animal doesn't suffer an extended period of time before it expires.
And on the topic of elevating animals; until recently iron sights were the standard issue for our military. And a varmint caliber is the standard issue for the majority of soldiers. You can hate the enemy, regardless of their motives, they are still a human and should deserve to be put down cleaner than an animal. I am not anti-war, anti-hunting, anti-gun or anti-American, yet when it comes to common held notions of fellow hunters, sometimes I think they drink the coolaid from time to time. It is good to have respect for an animal so that folks don't go around needlessly harming or killing them. But to think of them greater than a person is absurd in my rationalization. I rationalize in a simple fashion. If they are doing things legally they are hunting. If illegally they are poaching. If legal and the animal goes down quickly and cleanly they are being ethical. There are quite a few that mame animals every year due to inability. Those folks should be chastised more than the ones that do it in an unorthodoxed fashion but put them down quickly and cleanly.
