It is a part of the natural predation process. Man is, after all a predator, highest in the Food Chain. Although most hunters prefer to hunt bucks, Bowhunters tend to shoot more does. This keeps the herd diverse and viable and at a size which is compatible to the carrying capacity of the habitat, and within the human tolerance level. Hunting allows for more beneficial use of the resource.
Most hunters eat what they kill or give it away to others who do.
The average shot is less than 20 yards or 60 feet. A safe and effective way to hunt in heavily populated area's close to houses, farms and roads. Bows in use today are extremely effective and will shoot a razor sharp broadhead tipped arrow completely through a deer causing massive and immediate hemorrhaging. The resulting blood loss causes dulling of the senses and death is painless and swift. These same endorphins allow non fatally injured deer to recover quickly from the clean cutting wound of a broadhead.