Hunting deer over bait piles is illegal in PA. I just planted a small food plot, but there is nothing to force the deer to visit during daylight: they are free to feed at my food plot after dark and there is nothing I can do about it.

I don't have a game camera or laser range-finder or much of the other stuff you mentioned. I don't use carbon clothing because it is too expensive to buy for three years use.

My bow and aluminum arrows are rather slow, but I have no problem with a faster bow or a crossbow: I place a high priority on a quick, clean kill.

There is a world of difference between the rig I described above and a plot of ground with a fence to keep the deer in. My brother-in-law brought back pictures of a boar hunt at some hunting preserve: you could see the fence in the background. This is not hunting, it is just killing.

There are ethical questions about hunting and we should be asking them.