Never, never, dis' the " Old Guns" (bows). They are the patriarchs of today' s gear and today' s hunting techniques. If the older bows were able to do the job in their time, and do it well, why can' t they still do the job today if still in good shape? Here is a news flash: They can, and they do!

Unless the new gear is detrimental to clean hits/kills and recovered animals, it is the individual' s prerogative to hang anything on his or her bow if he or she believes the " stuff' enables better accuracy. However, here is a statement that I am sure will put the fingers to the keyboards of many of the bowhunters that have taken up the sport in the last 10 years. ……Regardless of all the technological advances in bowhunting gear, a bowhunter using all the expensive and advanced tech gear that is available today, still does not have any extensive advantages over a bowhunter using older -even newer, less powerful bows and simple gear.

Bowhunting remains a close contact sport; and unless bows are developed that can accurately cast an arrow at great speeds, and the arrow can maintain a flat trajectory to a greater than common yardage, bowhunting will always be a close contact sport.

If I were to hunt with a person using all the most advanced gear, and I was to use my 1979 60#, 200-210 fps PSE Pacer, with the wide wheels sitting in brackets on the limbs, I would not be intimidated nor would I believe I was outgunned. I would simply add 2 more sight pins for the additional yardage, where as I use only 1 pin on my newer Martins.

The fact that an arrow may fly faster and might get to the target faster, does not compute to an indisputable and outstanding advantage.