Jeff I'm gonna tell you where "I think" you are heading. (and to the board it's not a diss, We've kinda had discussions like this in emails, pms etc)

Total Burnout..I predict you'll be totally out of the sport in 3 years. It would be a shame. But I kinda agree with Jim you're searching. You, unlike anyone I know, make it a task, a duty, control the doe, worry about the neighbors, kill the sick/wounded.

You've had too much success, so in your mind it must be too easy..go traditional..after whatI hope is a painless learning curve you'll succeed at that, then what?? Forego treestands, get down on the ground again succeed..and then..??

I hope before you run through the Gauntlet of equipment, you go to a massive expanse of woods and terrain and challenge yourself with the quarry instead of the equipment. Perhaps then you will find the x factor. Your want to challenge yourself, it's not in the equipment. You can control that!

You say; why leave an area that's been productive?? The same could be said of your equipment. The challenge is out there.