bigdaddy7474 When I see Bill Jerden paying $10,000 for a piece of Milk River property, growing alfalfa and winter wheat for the deer, supplemental feeding, culling, "management" etc etc, and then seeing him shooting one with a compound at 35 yards ......... compare that to a guy who spends the time to craft a self bow, cane shafts, knaps his own arrows and kills a doe on public land

Which is the blue collar bowhunter ? Which uses money and technology to make sure he gets those antlers ? Which focuses on the hunt, not the kill ?

The "easier" you make the hunting, be it equipment, guides, leases, etc etc etc, the less reward and sense of accomplisment.

The more you work to earn something, the greater the satisfaction.

I personally am going to hunt with a compoud this fall. My choice, for a variety of reasons. When I kill a buck with it, I will have a sense that I accomplished less because I used a compound. Still an accomplishment, I'll be proud of it for certain - just not AS proud, because of the circumstance.

Maybe thats the the jest of this thread .......