I pity you, SA, because you will never get to experience the kind of bowhunting that I once knew. Of course, you won't understand and think I'm being a smart@$$, but I'm actually being sincere.
lol, Arthur you are wasting your time if you are pittying me because I couldn't be happier. I LOVE the way I bowhunt and I don't have any desire to go back to yesteryear. I like it exactly as it is. I feel sorry for you that all you can do is dwell on how it use to be rather than seizing the present. While you are out there complaining about this and that, I am going to be out hunting with my high fangled compound and having a BLAST and if the trend continues, killing lots of game to boot. You have convinced yourself that the only way for anyone to have fun and enjoy their hunting is if they do it exactly the way you do it. I am sure for you the old days were the best and shooting trad is the only way etc. but I am not you and I guarantee you that I can have just as much fun and just much enjoyment and just as much fulfillment by doing things my way as you can by doing it yours. I don't feel the need to dictate for others what should be enjoyable or rewarding to them. We are all different folks that take pleasure in doing different things (that's why we have so many different sports and hobbies in this country).
We used to look at all new products with one thought: Is it good for archery and bowhunting?
That's the way it should be and the way that is done is by letting the entire hunting population decide for themselves. As much as you may argue to the contrary you are not qualified to make that decision for EVERYONE! The hunting public has the right to decide for themselves whether or not something is good for bowhunting.
Now there are guys like you who's first question is: Why do you guys care?
see the above reply
I'm sure they also remember the days when someone actually had to accomplish something before he could feel proud of himself
I for one don't have to accomplish anything to be proud of myself. I don't bowhunt as an ego boost or to boost my self esteem. But why should everyone have to use your measuring stick to determine weather or not they should be proud of their animal? Fortunately, for us we don't all live by the laws of Arthur and we are capable of determining for ourselves what we want to be proud of. It's different for all of us and we don't want to have it dictated to us. If you don't respect the accomplishment of other hunters then that is certainly your perogative and even understandable but as much as you may want to you are never going to be able to dictate for others what they should and shouldn't be proud of and good Lord willing you won't be able to dictate how they hunt.