Mick,

I think anyone who has a scope sighted high velocity rifle and who has the rifle bedded and perhaps rebarreled with a match grade barrel and so on....has crossed or is about cross over the line between hunting and shooting.

Some might say they do that to the rifle to increase the chances of a good hit but of course the hunting alternative is to get closer.

And by the way, the gap from an open sighted 30/30, 45/70 etc. to a an accurate scope sighted 270, 7mm Rem or 300 Winchester is many many times greater than it is from those calibres to the 300 Ultra, 30/378, 338 Ultra and 338/378

Mike