RE: lets talk Fred Bear (just finished a book on him)
I agree to a degree. But Fred and Company were not cave men of bowhunting. I think they full well knew what was and wasn't unsportsmanlike. However, they were bowhunters, there were not trying to please an invisible politically correct crowd. They had no qualms about taking a 50 yard shot at a deer, full well knowing they might miss. They didn't CARE if they missed really - its hunting, it happens, thats the way it is.
Whereas nowdays, we have this feeling that if we miss, or wound, and do it often that we're doing a disservice to the animals. Fred Bear LOVED the wildlife, he trumped it up, that bowhunting was so much better because you got to know the animals up close. But that didn't mean he wouldn't take a frontal shot on a world record ram at 60 yards, you know ?
Different time for sure ........ but I don't think Fred Bear and the people he hunted with were that much different