"How does this help me put an elk in my freezer with my .300 Savage model 99?"
If you are a target shooter the above is totally irrelevant.
It two totally different aspects using similar tools.
I used to hunt and all I cared about was reasonable accuracy which was 1.5 inch MOA.
I target shoot now and you would not begin to pack my target guns out hunting.
I often have people oooh and ahhh over my groups (which I am not that impressed with most of the time). But they are hunters and I tell them my groups are irrelevant.
Hunting I never took a shot off hand, always braced, but it sure was not off a bench.
I hit in the area I was aiming at and that was what counted (oddly I never saw an animla with a target on its side).
So, what get you down to 1/2 MOA is not relevant in the hunting world. Might be a few hunting guns that can shoot that good (the family Sako 270 shoots 3/4 MOA x 5. So what. My 7mm shot 1.5 MOA and I got what I shot at as well.
Its not a right or wrong or better or worse. Hunting is an entirely different world than target shooting. The gun is only part of it. Stalking and logistics are more important than the gun. People hunted with WWI 1917 rifles. One guy I knew did not even know how to use the flip up sight or what it was for. He still got his deer. He was not a gun guy, he was a hunter. Gun was like a hoe to a farmer. Tool.
Shoot, hunting you might even save money though I never did. Cost me more when you add up the expenses. I liked it then and I respect it now. My neighbor is not a good shot, he gets his moose every year. That is what counts. I shoot his guns for him to make sure they are hitting where they should. Nope, he is not a gun guy.
Target shooting does not pay either (for most of us) but its our entertainment. So yes we get into the weeds because its our form of fun.