Why would you us a bow? Range is poor, and lethality is also low, esp. with the access the the ultra-wealthy have to medicine. When you hunt deer with a bow, you can usually expect to have to follow a blood trail, as it's rarely an instant drop.

Use a .300 Winchester magnum from 1000 yards; at that distance, you still have about 850 foot-pounds of energy, which is roughly double a 9mm at point black range. With the right ammo, that's more than enough to get the job done. You probably want a combined mechanical and ammunition accuracy of about .5 MOA range though, so that you have deviation of less than 6" at that range. It's a challenging shot, but it's definitely doable if you know your holds and can call the wind.

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bows can be roughly created from easily available materials, making it impossible to ban the ownership of.

[–] within_epsilon@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

Banning ownership becomes a game of catch. Use whatever you have: 7.62x51mm, arrows, rocks, ect.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And you can swap scopes depending on, uh, context.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

You shouldn't need to. .300 Win mag is long action, so you're going to be using a bolt action rifle. There's not going to be too many contexts where you're going to want to swap out the scope for anything other than fairly long range.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Because it'll probably hurt more.