Chaser,
i share your sentiments / views about hunting for meat - as i also hunt annually just for the meat. As a matter of personal conviction and choice, i will also not hunt predatory animals of which the meat cannot be used in my house.
However, your comments on bow-hunting versus rifle-hunting (boring / easy / embarrassing) i find lacking real substance.
* .....Hunting sticks and / or fixed bi-pods has nothing to do with not being able to shoulder a hunting rifle. They are purely to steady the hunters aim, and to enable the hunter to ensure his shot placement is accurate and effective as so to cause quick death and the minimum suffering to the animal. Same as your different 'weights' you fix to your bows - what is that for....is it not to steady your shot to ensure accuracy?
* ..... As for 'boring and easy' to hunt with with a rifle, sticks or not, my friend - please come join me here in Namibia on a hunt for Kudu and Gemsbok (Oryx) on the farm where i hunt anually. I will not go into hundreds of examples to justify my claim that it is NOT boring and NOT easy. This year alone, i painstakingly leopard crawled almost 400 yds day one and a similar distance on day 2, in sparesely vegitated savannah - to bag my Oryx. I deserved that Oryx - i worked damn hard to get him.
I will not even tell you about my kudu hunt last year - hardest i ever worked to get that critter bagged ON the mountain, and then OFF the mountain.
Carefull to generalize too much on certain hunting aspects, your personal views is but one view, and you know what - there are still a lot of us that hunt 'old school' - the more we suffer, the sweeter the meat.
Rgds