said with a smile
Since you smiled as you said that, I will agree, that is funny.
But in my own case, becoming an avid bowhunter for deer, made me a much better deer hunter. I had to learn a lot of stuff,..... the wind, travel patterns, food preferences, stages of the rut. I knew little if any of these things as a young gun hunter,and I'll add, I[m still learning. And, I had to set up shots within my effective range, which has never been much with a bow (my deer diary says 14 yd average over the years) . I was proud of all that, and I pretty much became an archery snob, and considered rifle hunting cheating.
There were guys in clubs I belonged to over the years, that despised me, and bowhunting/bowhunters, et al. They didn't like that we got in the woods earlier in the year, that in some locales, we got late season's too. They were especially upset over the deer that were shot and not recovered.
But my observations were that those same clubs lost as many or more deer to poor rifle shooting. There were more gun hunters, and if a deer exposed itself, it got shot (at), no matter the distance in a lot of cases. You see a lot of deer hunting on and around R.O.W's.
I'm rifle hunting again, I cannot climb trees, hump the stand in and out, and drag deer any distance from lightly hunted boonie areas like I used too. Age has humbled me down a good bit. But all those years studying deer and deer behavior, has made me a better hunter, I feel sure.