RE: Is it meritorious or pathetic?
I think some of what I meant to say came thru. I didn’t intend to bring up a compound vs trad thing. I was leaning more towards people relying on gadgets rather than woodsmanship to help them get a deer. And even more so, since it’s been SUCH a big topic, is spending ridiculous amounts of money on 6 different types of heads striving for that “best” one. When in fact they could screw on any one of the “lesser” heads and kill a deer without issue. I think you’d have to search harder to find a BAD head, than you do to find a good one nowadays. Yet people have become completely obsessed with finding that one magical head that’s going to work for them. I think if people put half the amount of energy into hunting/scouting as they do obsessing over what head is the perfect one, they’d be a lot better off.
You could probably insert 90% of the other equipment categories that people obsess over as well. There seems to be a big difference in researching something that you want use on your rig to see if it is functionally sound, and obsessing that every little tidbit of the accessory is the absolute ultimate performing item that is critical to your success in the woods.
There, I feel much better now J