The point is if someone asks a question about setting up their drop-away rest to shoot mechanil broadheads on carbon arrows, they don't want someone comming in and telling them that their drop-away is prone to failing, the mechanical heads won't open, and that the carbons aren't going to be accurate over-time! They are asking a question to get help on what to do with the gear they have, not what gear to get.
I know that stuff goes on, but I plead innocence. I rarely post to those kinds of threads, I don't use dropaways or mechanical heads and I don't shoot carbon for hunting. When I can't tell them how to make the stuff work, I leave that to the folks that know. So, I hope you're not pointing a finger at me, personally with that.
Now, the ones that ask about whether or not they should get that kind of gear in the first place, or what is wrong with this, that or the other, then I call that fair game.
That very true, years of experience and a preferance to trad gear, but this is a two way street, not a 1-1/2 way street. What I am saying here is.... If I gave you all the credit that you deserve, but I choose to shoot a drop-away rest, shouldn't I get the credit I deserve? Should it be that I give you credit for using trad gear but when it comes to my drop-away rest, you call it inferior? Where is the "two way street" in that?
What kind of rest/arrows/broadheads/cams/ bow/release you use is entirely unimportant to me, personally. Letoff is my hot button. Where I get on an uproar is when guys talk about holding their high letoff bows for minutes at a time, waiting for an animal to come into a shooting lane. That is where I would say one of the prime challenges of bowhunting - drawing undetected in the immediate presence of game - has been discarded. Which is also one of the prime distinctions between conventional bows and crossbows. (The 'C' word had already been broached, so don't blame me!) Anyone that says using high letoff in that fashion is okay, then they cannot be opposed to crossbows in bow season without being a flaming hypocrite.
Of course, we could also talk about bow-mounted electronics and draw locking doohickeys, which I am opposed to allowing in bow season. Both of which happen to be legal in my home state.
I would respect a trophy taken with that kind of stuff (after all, the deer didn't have any choice what he got shot with). The hunter's accomplishment? That's another matter.
n closing I will say that there has to be a "two way street" here. Compound shooters should give respect to the choices that Trad shooters choose, and Trad shooters should give respect to the choices that Compound shooters choose, even if they don't personally believe in them.
Isn't that another way of telling trads to 'sit down and shut up'? I don't personally believe in dropaways, releases and all that stuff. But, like I said, those things are unimportant in the overall picture. I hate hearing compounds being called 'mechanist archery' and compound shooters being called 'machine operators' instead of archers (Most of that is from the "I'm more trad than you are" crowd of buttheads anyway and not many trads care much for those guys). I don't like hearing the 'spears and loincloth' dolts ragging on trads either. But there are a few things I am firmly opposed to. I couldn't respect myself if I did not speak my mind against them.