It sounds as if somebody should have defined Primitive somewhere along the way.
Some of you seem to think if you are not using a club or a rock it isn' t primitive.
Is there a common date that could be agreed upon to say that all after that is modern?
The ancient Egytians used recurve bows as did the Nez Perce here in North America, this well before the highly daunted Long Bow of English fame.
Optical sights have been around for several hundred years, maybe not used by that many people but available none the less.
The Pennsylvania and Kentucky Long Rifles were deadly accurate out to several hundred yards, these with open sights, flint lock actions and often times home made powder and cast lead balls. Guns themselves have been around not for a couple of hundred years but closer to six or seven hundred years (ever see an arquebus, a wheel lock or a blunderbuss?)
How about clothing, anybody willing to give up the Goretex and Thinsulate for Linsey-woolsey, moccasins stuffed with dry grass and lichens and a leathern jerkin for sub-zero hunting this year?
Maybe we should petition our respective Game Management folks for a pitfall and deadfall season next year and the year after we could get together for a communal hunt where we drive something off a cliff and then beat the critters that survive the fall to death with clubs and rocks.....Just a thought.