Obviously, your hunting tactics have to match the situation. If your equipment & your skills are up to long shots, go for it! I've hunted in Taiwan, Washington State, California, Arkansas, Tennessee, N. Dakota, Manitoba, Virginia, N. Carolina & S. Carolina. You can get long shots here in S.C., such as when sitting over a 1,000+ acre bean field or over looking 20 square miles of salt marsh. However, that is the exception & not the usual hunting situation here. Deer know they are vulnerable when they are in the open. Don't get me wrong, I'm not above shooting deer over corn. I've never done it but I would, & the sit & wait game is probably the most productive. Most of the deer hunters here could never kill a deer if they couldn't use corn for bait. Stand hunting takes skill too. You have to know where the deer are likely to move & you have to know how to keep them from smelling or detecting you. Idiots don't get many shots, even over corn. The right equipment also helps. I remember a friend who had a horse shoe stuck you know where. If he climbed in a tree, a buck would walk under it. He was sitting in a tree with a rig that would have been right for a prairie hunt but when a buck walked under his tree @ 25 yds. or so, all he could see in his 10X scope was hair & he couldn't tell what part of the deer that hair came from.