Previously I gave my opinion addressing the high tech equipment vs the challenge of hunting. Here are some thoughts on another issue that has surfaced in our discussion.

I don't think a person's choice of weapon, whether it be so called "high tech" or traditional is the deciding factor when a person chooses to be unethical or not. If someone decides to take a low percentage shot I'm not convinced the weapon makes much of a difference.

We need to continue to educate new and young bow hunters on the limits of their equipment. Will that solve all the problems? Certainly not, but it will go a long way in the right direction.

When I was a young person there were no bow hunters in my family. Having watched all those John Wayne movies where the soldiers fell over dead when struck by the Indian's arrows I thought the same thing would happen to a deer when I put an arrow in it with my 45# recurve. Imagine my shock when I shot a deer with my bow and watched it run away with my arrow,(no, a lot of my arrow) sticking out of it's side (I hit it in the shoulder and got almost no penetration). I knew nothing about shot placement, I just thought my job was to get an arrow in the animal and that was all there was to it. Stupid and irresponsible I know, but I didn't realize it at the time. Goodness it wasn't that long ago some of our mentors (like Fred Bear for example)were taking shots at game that would cause them to be "burned at the stake" today.

So you see we have come a long way since those early years. Even though the equipment may be considered modern or high tech if you please, it is still a close range weapon and I don't see that changing any time soon. In my opinion it isn't to sophisticated, we just need to be better educated.