Heavy stone. Club. Spear. Alatal. Selfbow. Composite bow. Modern Stickbow. Coumpound bow. Crossbow. Gun.....ad infinitum
They are all machines, designed to do the same thing. The difference is the trend-from the beginning-to make the task easier.
This was born of necessity when our ancestors had to kill to eat, but today we hunt for "Sport".
I don't object to the mechanics (except mechanical broadheads)

What upsets me is the "Instant Bowhunter" who buys the latest and greatest gadgets and a couple weeks later is sitting in a tree somewhere waiting to ambush a deer. He hasn't paid his dues. He hasn't learned Respect and Patience. He'll never know the exuberance of taking a deer with equipment that puts the odds in the animal's favor. He just wants to kill a buck, have it processed and watch the game on TV....

Hunting of all kinds, when done fairly and with the proper reverence for nature and natural things, is to me, the last Pure thing. Everything else has been bastardized.
I would welcome a compound shooter at my fire, and I would welcome any of you. I would run off anyone who showed disrespect for the game, and it wouldn't matter WHAT he shoots!

Your life is made of time, not money.