There is no "downside" to binos....other than a little weight. And...with the harnesses of today....I rarely know they're there (weight-wise).....and it's probably saved me shooting a BB a time or two.

Of course I'm probably gonna be labeled "new school". I've only been hunting DEER 2.5yrs. I hunt where I find deer....even though the only terminology I learned will have me labeling those areas as pinch points, funnels and staging areas. Thats how I learned them.

I started out using grunt tubes, cover scents, cough silencers,attractant/scents,trail cams EVERYWHERE, etc...

Now...I go to stand with a bow, my stand and a bow hook. I haven't put my trail cam out, this year....and I won't, until about a month from now....and then I'll only leave it out for 4 or 5 weeks. I'll use technology to help.....but I'm a minimalist. My bowhunting will reflect that as I season. It's already heading in that direction.

This deer hunting thing isn't exactly quantum physics.There are those, though,who'd have you believe otherwise......and they're new and old schoolers, alike.