Probably depends somewhat on what and where you hunt? My only big-game experience was taking three pronghorns in Wyoming in my teens. With a cheap but decent scoped .243, that was SO easy. Sun comes up, tag gets filled. Actually, my first one the sun hadn't even come up until we'd walked the nearly 300 yards to the target. Even at that age, I called it "antelope shooting," not hunting, since except for a couple of brothers of one of our party who came from another time zone one year and couldn't hit shit in an outhouse, everyone filled their tags without any effort.Sonofagun wrote: Because they don't hunt. Real hunters are stealth and appreciate archery. Shooting game from hundreds of yards away is not hunting. In my book anyway.
Edit: My point being: in my experience, I agree with you, but I suspect that some rifle hunting is actually kinda challenging.