However, with too many, the pride factor has escalated to the level of being monotonously obnoxious and nose-in-the-air, believing and espousing that high-priced gear is a necessity for bowhunting and that anything less is used by those other people.
You're not going to believe this, as much as I prefer the older bows over the stuff they're parading around in the catalogs today, but I had a twinge of that very thing last summer. Our club does a qualifier for a WMA that requires a proficiency test for their annual archery hunt. This guy showed up to qualify with an original Bear Whitetail... yeah, the one with all those wheels.
Even though I owned one of those a long time a go and shot with it a lot and knew it most always put the arrow where I aimed it, I just knew the guy wasn't going to get the job done. I didn't tell him that, but it sure stuck in my mind.
Well, he did. Very decent score, by the way. The guy obviously was not a newbie with a $5 yardsale bow, as I had suspected. My humility was restored. [&:]