Most of the people I know who are really "good" hunters - meaning they have an appreciation and respect for it - use a bow. They may also use a rifle, but thats just so they can get an extra deer and more time in the woods. Ask them all, most will answer they prefer the bow season. Around here in Appalachia, the main quarry is deer. Turkey comes a close second. Boar is not really indigenous, you have to go into hunting preserves for that, where they are released for the hunt.
The bow is practiced quite a bit before its taken out into the woods, unless the hunter is a fuckhead.
When you sight in a bow, you use these little elevation pins on it, and put your target out about 20 to 40 yards. 40 is pushin' it, most hunters will sight for the 20ish yard range. To put it into perspective, the trailer part of a tractor trailer is normally about 55 ft, about 20 yards. You have to be pretty stealthy to be within that range from a deer. A good shot with a bow could hit you in the face at that distance. Thats a pretty good shot, staying well-inside a dinner plate. The hunter will sit still, slowly draw, and fire. They don't sneak up on it. (boar are different, you have to chase them - theres no way you could ever chase down a healthy deer)
Anyway, it takes a bit of practice to do that. They spend quite a few hours in their back yard. A buddy 'o mine can hit targets consistently at 60 yards - albeit slightly larger, pizza box size. His yard is an acre square, 200x200 - he can go out near the road and hit targets near his back fence. In the woods, he still uses ~20+ yards. Any further than that is not cool, in his opinion.
I don't hunt.