ability are so lousy today that all hunters have to tote a tripod with vise to support the rifle!! Nothing like having commercialism to kill the ability to learn effective field shooting procedure by employing one more gimmick!!
I keep reading "in their pack" and laugh.
I never knew anyone who carried a pack full of all the toys we now need for a big game hunt or even any pack at all. Sheister, comparing old guys who are now physically compromised to young lions is sheer foolishness...stupid.
It's amazing that we filled our tags every year without thou$ands of dollars of "necessary" gear in an expensive pack, weighing us down.
I can't believe how poorly today's younger hunters shoot. They suck at the tit of hi-cap semi-autos and practiced spray-n-pray as kids. I guess they need all the toys, come to think of it.
There are plenty of cases where this isn’t so with the younger crowd and also plenty of cases where older folks use all that new gear. Most every thread here involves a non-millennial and if you look at the pics, many, many have at least some of the new gear being discussed in this thread, including ARs and the tripod mounts. This isn’t to mention many of those older guys are just as bad of shots as some of the younger folks.
I think it is also somewhat important to say that when today’s old dude was young there was a lot more hunting opportunity, more animals (except for maybe elk), less competition and generally better timing of seasons with the rut, etc., out west at least.
That is to say, if people of any age had to hunt with older equipment in today’s environment, I’d bet you people wouldn’t be near as successful as they were in the 70s and 80s.
