We have come a long way since flint points and bows made from anything that would bend. It is even farther from the days of tar pits, cliffs and spears.
And yet, despite that and the huge increase in hunters, we have more game than even 30-years ago. In 60-years of hunting, I cannot recall a single instance of any technology being harmfull to hunting opportunities with the exception of some vehicles causing lands to be off limits.
I have been bowhunting long enough to remember the doom the compound was going to bring...and treestands and a wide variety of electronic and semi-electronic devices. No question, range finders were going to spell the end of bowhunting but not as quickly as overdraw bows and carbon arrows (anyone remember that?). For as far back as I can recall, crossbows were the true culprit despite the fact, they have always been legal in WY and hunters still clamor to go there and hunt.
In the four or five years, crossbows have been legal in the regular season here, I have never seen a single crossbow hunter nor have I met anyone who has. We have more deer now than we did six months ago and way more than six years ago.
A day will come when all anyone is going to need to do to kill a deer is push a button on their small-screen phone. And still, we will have more days to hunt than we have hunters who will go.
Relax. Enjoy what you have. Worry about your hunt, your ethics, your sportsmanship. Enjoy the weather, the woods, the sights sounds and scenes and quit worrying about what some other guy is doing.
I don't have much longer to live and I have already wasted far too much of my life worrying about things over which I had no control and most of which never happened.
We spend way too much time fussing over senseless BS rather than have fun in the outdoors. We spend more time in argument rather than being in awe of God's great creation. An in the interim is life -and we miss it.
Good post John !
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I was told I'd never make it out alive... but I still don't believe i.. ack!......
Mark
Your other comments may be true although I'm not real thrilled with much of it. Just being honest.
When they first hit the market, they were absolutely terrible. Most of the ones in production today, used on animals whitetail-size and smaller, I believe to be every bit as effective as fixed blades. I cannot comment on their performance on larger game because have not tried them on anything but deer. I have been shooting them for five years. Great accuracy, great blood trails, no wounding loss yet and almost all complete pass throughs. I shoot heads with a cut-on-contact, Trocar or chisel point.
I would assume, as it is with any product, there are some out there that do not perform well. I assume one must be selective in what he uses, just as it is with any fixed position head.
How they are going to ruin bowhunting, I cannot fathom since they are far more effective than a dull fixed position head and I suspect there are more of them in use than mechanicals.
So, Matt, please elucidate unless you were being sarcastic.
Doug
Beendare, lots of folks need forehead tattoos of that sort.... but applied in a mirror image or they won't get it....
