Getting closer is not always an option. What if you're on horseback or the game is way up a mountain, across a stream or river? How about twenty sets of eyes looking at you? Travel to a foreign country for sheep or plains game and try and get closer. Not going to happen. Take the blanket statement about getting closer and then argue we should be within five yards and using spears instead of high power rifles with scopes or compound bows with sights and mechanical broadheads. Where do you draw the line? On deer, on groundhogs, on prairie dogs and coyotes? Technology has improved everything we hunt with, from bullets to barrels and optics. It moves the game forward and long range hunting is part of it. Can this technology be abused? Sure, by guys like Fred's example but for those that are willing and able to put in the time and effort to become proficient like Adam's client, I have no problem with it. As far as ethics, I wish I had a dollar for each paper plate hunter I've seen at gun clubs the week before deer season. If they could hit anywhere on that plate at 50 yards, they were good to go in their powerline stands. I should have taken a photo of the last bozo I saw who had his scope mounted ninety degrees to the left and went through 35 rounds of 30-30 before he figured it out. But hey, he's ethical because he was only going to shoot fifty yards!