Oh Boy, a great debate thread like this and somehow I didn't have a chance to open it until this morning.
My take on this is rather simple. Yes, shooting without a peep sight or sights in general does require us to train subonscious mental processes which might normally remain dormant and which do come in handy in unusual hunting situations but, to coin Flhunter's terminology, most people don't "marry" their bows. This gets back to the debate about how technology is "ruining" our sport and how a hunter isn't a hunter unless they go out and practice each and every day with their bow in order to be proficient at any given distance.
Technology has given us some advantages, most notably, the ability to not have to go out every day and practice. Is this a bad thing? No, it isn't. Any particular individual can go out and practice if they so desire, on a daily basis, but now we at least have a choice. Does it make us any less ethical because we don't practice as much...no, in my opinion it doesn't...Why? Because our equipment allows us to remain accurate and consistant from day to day without having the need to practice as much.
Now, you may ask why I brought this discussion into this. Well, it seemed to me that this thread was turn into another argument of technology versus past practice...except in this case the little ol' peep sight was to blame.
I have used one of those peeps that <BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>are tied in at three or four sides with string strands running through the shooter's field of view <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>. It is called a Shurz-a-Peep three way or four way. I have been using it for at least 6 or 7 years now and guess what....it has never cost me the opportunity of harvesting an animal.
As is my response in every one of these types of threads...."To each his own"....shoot what you like but don't try to tell me that it is any better or any worse than what I use
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Edited by - PABowhntr on 09/10/2002 07:50:04