RE: GPS or Compass, which do you prefer?
I'm glad you brung up ol' timers an' their ability to live without gadgets. Seems to me, folks are losing lots of skills that used to be part of a hunters set of skills. Not jus' dead reckoning and finding their way in unfamiliar places, but also stalkin' skills, survival skills, shooting skills. You name it. We're replacing the traditional part of hunting with techno crap, making it a lesser endeavor in the process. Tell me, who can really take pride in a trophy gained with such gadgetry? No thanks, I'll keep relyin' on my injun nose an' my open sights. I ain't never been more an' "bewildered" in new country, dark timber or badlands. Hell, if I was to git too temporarily bewildered, I'd jus' look at it as a chance to catch up on my fishin' while I ponder whether I really wanna go anywhere else at all.