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"Finally, Mr. F says that the dependence on technology has reached the tipping point; that all this gadgetry has become "…crutches, and both woodcraft and hunting ethics have been the victims." I think he has something here; I have said much the same thing myself."
Quoted from an old Petzal blog. His words as well as those of an anonymous writer. I agree mostly. What do you think?
Question by shane. Uploaded on February 18, 2010
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agree that techno has taken away? your using the internet to ask the question, people will answer using an assortment of media (iphone,blackberry/laptops)
or in my case is using a compass and a map too techno?
heck I would love a new fishfinder with GPS! and a temp gauge too!
maybe I could stay in the pocket a little longer then using my map/compass and dad saying we are off the spot a hundred times!
zi cut cane out of the backyard to mark my bream beds.I have an old gps that i use as a speedometer in the boat thats all it's good for.My ventures in to the swamp are shorter than the used to be and the old landmarks the native americans left are my compass.I how ever do use my glasses and bino's and scopes without them i would have to stay in the boat.I do use google earth when the water level changes to find closer access to hunting land in the swamp.
shane-
You pose a very interesting (and thorny) question. If one depends only on the GPS to get you there, and bring you back, and the GPS fails, or the batteries give out, then you should have a backup compass to find your way home, right? Some people ignore the rule of redundancy. (See Petzal's column on "Pack Like A Navy SEAL) My personal no s!!t opinion is: If a range finder lets you take a more accurate shot at a fine animal, USE THE RANGEFINDER! If a better scope allows you a confidence factor, or lets you see better to ethically kill your game, USE IT! If you depend solely on technology to make your hunting experience successful, you will soon get bored, and go back to playing video games, anyway. JMHNSO!
crm
Depends on where ye draws the line. You can click the mouse button and kill by TV and remote control. Or ye can report to the woods butt-naked, armed only with a sharpened stick. Guess it's different for everybody.
please blackdogz DO NOT show a pictuer of you dressed as Tarzan I will poke out my eyes with a blunt object!
hahaah Duane! how life treating you and those mutts and that cat?mw
I have to disagree with that quote - not because I think hunters/fisherman should adopt all the latest technology. I do think some technology goes too far and takes away the sporting nature of the pursuit - but I don't see technology as destroying the ethics of hunting/fishing, I see it as destroying the traditional skills of hunting/fishing.
Just because someone doesn't use all of the latest technology that doesn't somehow make them more ethical. It may, however, require that they possess more skills than those who aren't using the latest technology.
To follow up on my last post with an illustration - a recurve bow hunter who takes a low percentage shot that is likely to only wound an animal is an unethical hunter in my book while a hunter with the latest and greatest rifle outfitted with the most advanced scope who takes a pass on an animal at the very edge of his range because it is low percentage shot and he wants to be certain a clean kill is acting like an ethical hunter.
"Or ye can report to the woods butt-naked, armed only with a sharpened stick". Please blackdawgz, Keep your clothes on!!!
I don't think I want that image seared into my brain anytime soon.....
WA Mtnhunter,
LMAO, I agree with you!!!
Not to self: NEVER install trail cam anywhere near blackdogz hunting grounds...
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shane-
You pose a very interesting (and thorny) question. If one depends only on the GPS to get you there, and bring you back, and the GPS fails, or the batteries give out, then you should have a backup compass to find your way home, right? Some people ignore the rule of redundancy. (See Petzal's column on "Pack Like A Navy SEAL) My personal no s!!t opinion is: If a range finder lets you take a more accurate shot at a fine animal, USE THE RANGEFINDER! If a better scope allows you a confidence factor, or lets you see better to ethically kill your game, USE IT! If you depend solely on technology to make your hunting experience successful, you will soon get bored, and go back to playing video games, anyway. JMHNSO!
crm
please blackdogz DO NOT show a pictuer of you dressed as Tarzan I will poke out my eyes with a blunt object!
hahaah Duane! how life treating you and those mutts and that cat?mw
Depends on where ye draws the line. You can click the mouse button and kill by TV and remote control. Or ye can report to the woods butt-naked, armed only with a sharpened stick. Guess it's different for everybody.
agree that techno has taken away? your using the internet to ask the question, people will answer using an assortment of media (iphone,blackberry/laptops)
or in my case is using a compass and a map too techno?
heck I would love a new fishfinder with GPS! and a temp gauge too!
maybe I could stay in the pocket a little longer then using my map/compass and dad saying we are off the spot a hundred times!
I don't think I want that image seared into my brain anytime soon.....
"Or ye can report to the woods butt-naked, armed only with a sharpened stick". Please blackdawgz, Keep your clothes on!!!
WA Mtnhunter,
LMAO, I agree with you!!!
zi cut cane out of the backyard to mark my bream beds.I have an old gps that i use as a speedometer in the boat thats all it's good for.My ventures in to the swamp are shorter than the used to be and the old landmarks the native americans left are my compass.I how ever do use my glasses and bino's and scopes without them i would have to stay in the boat.I do use google earth when the water level changes to find closer access to hunting land in the swamp.
I have to disagree with that quote - not because I think hunters/fisherman should adopt all the latest technology. I do think some technology goes too far and takes away the sporting nature of the pursuit - but I don't see technology as destroying the ethics of hunting/fishing, I see it as destroying the traditional skills of hunting/fishing.
Just because someone doesn't use all of the latest technology that doesn't somehow make them more ethical. It may, however, require that they possess more skills than those who aren't using the latest technology.
To follow up on my last post with an illustration - a recurve bow hunter who takes a low percentage shot that is likely to only wound an animal is an unethical hunter in my book while a hunter with the latest and greatest rifle outfitted with the most advanced scope who takes a pass on an animal at the very edge of his range because it is low percentage shot and he wants to be certain a clean kill is acting like an ethical hunter.
Not to self: NEVER install trail cam anywhere near blackdogz hunting grounds...
Post an Answer