ORIGINAL: AZHuntr
Ok here is how I look at it...Do I need the gadgets to be a better hunter? No. Do I love to hunt? Yes. Do I like tinkering with new gadgets because I have an aspiration to do engineering/mechanical tinkering? Yes.
With that said I buy gadgets within my means to suffice both of my hobbies. I can probably go kill any elk or deer with a compund, some arrows, and broadheads, on any given day if I study the animals enough, and no the gadgets won't help me find the animals but it is sure fun tinkering with new things. I gues what I am saying is that some of us get gadgets to feed our "tinkering minds" and for that it is good. Have fun always first and foremost.
Thats a good answer and an angle I did not think of. I have tinkered with every single part of my set-up because to me, it is fun and there is always the off chance i will stumbe onto something (the latest is gluing lead shot in the inserts to increase FOC) - in that way I guess I am a gadget person entirely.