[Maccalus]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

I'm not a hunter so I can be way out to lunch, but shouldn't it be more humane to kill something with a rifle rather than a bow? I'm assuming rifles allow for a cleaner and faster kill.

Not necessarily. It all comes down to where you hit the animal. A clean double lung or heart shot will kill an animal in close to the same timeframe with either method.

The difference comes with the degree of precision required. The cucussion from a rifle bullet does a fair amount of damage going through and can impact the organs if you just bairly miss them. An arrow will only cut what it goes through. This means that your kill zone is marginally bigger for a rifle.