Is eating hunted meat ethical?

[paulpablo]

Animals suffer at least as much in slaughterhouses as they do from hunting.

I don't agree. I have been in slaughterhouses and have watched cattle, poultry and pigs as they are slaughtered. They were stunned with a captive bolt to the brain (cattle) and an electric shock (pigs and poultry). Their loss of consciousness is instantaneous and complete, and if you watch it you understand that their lights are completely out. When animals are hunted, they're shot with a rifle, shotgun or arrow from a certain distance away, and the hunter aims for the heart. The hunter has to track them for some distance before they fall, if they do fall. Often they are lost and the hunter never finds them. 

If I had to choose my own demise, I'd pick the commercial slaughter plant.

I don't know if things have changed much since I watched these documentaries but I watched some TV shows where people went undercover working in slaughter houses, it was here in England.  
In showed the guys working in the slaughter houses kicking the animals along, breaking their legs, the animals seemed terrified.  Plus there's the transportation beforehand that probably causes some distress.  
That was in the 90s, maybe they are more humane places now. 

I suppose either way the killing of an animal can be brutal and in theory either way could be sudden and merciful.  Bow hunting does seem to be a pretty big risk of causing unnecessary harm.