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Cheaper, easier and faster air-travel.
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Gps
Polypropolene
Laser range finders
Modern Powders
improved optics
"The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them."
-Master Chief Hershel Davis
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Thinsulate insulation, especially in boots
Better optics
Internet access.
This space for rent
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Clothing definitely, especially the waterproof and breathable stuff like Gore-Tex etc.
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Silicone Titts and 7mm-08 
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Plethora of available info on things hunting/shooting - internet.
Broader variety of reloading components and precision tools.
Warmer/drier/lighter clothes and boots.
More precise and more dependable scope sights.
Benefits of age with experience.
Don't bother to ask what has gotten worse.
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Footwear that is comfortable from day 1.
Breath-able waders.
CNC technology, it has positively impacted lots of stuff I use.
Fleece & polypro.
bullet technolgy in general, hard to find a bad bullet anymore.
Fuel injection & ignition system improvements in pickups & outboard motors.
Quads
Light Rifles
MRE's
Imagine your grave on a windy winter night. You've been dead for 70 years.
It's been 50 since a visitor last paused at your tombstone.....
Now explain why you're in a pissy mood today.
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The Computer ! The Computer was involved in one way or another , with all these improvments .It's significanence is equal to the wheel and the gun , it will outlive both .
Don't forget to have your Liberals spayed or neutered !
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"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." -Theodore Roosevelt
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It is truly difficult for me to think of anything which has enhanced my hunting experience. I think the laser rangefinder is a great advance for varminting, especially. I don't believe in shooting at big game at extreme ranges so it is of little value to me in that regard.
Optics are probably better but, agaiun, I enjoy looking at game through forty year-old optics just prior to the shot as much as through new optics.
I still wear leather boots and wool pants and like it that way. I find that animals still fall to whatever bullet hits them right. The availability of good glass stocks has been a real plus for those who like them. The trade-off has been the loss of Fajen! GD
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Stainless rifles, LRF's, elevation turrets.
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Silicone Titts and 7mm-08 ding ding ding!!! we got a winner!!!!
I can't spell... Deal with it...
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Ballistic and trajectory tables online. Chronograph's 7MM-08 and 120 Nosler Ballistic Tips  Gore-Tex High Quality barrel manufacturers Modern Inline Muzzleloaders Better manufactureing techniques and components for hunting optics. Alaskan Amber
I should have just
bought a [bleep] T3...
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Able to hunt from a tree with a boom stick. In Michigan, it was a no no for a long time. GPS. Forums. A wealth of info and meeting up with like minded individuals, for the most part.  Cell phones and text. So I can let me buddies know when that buck is headed their way. Did I say that? Internet. I collect old guns and finding parts in the past might take a lifetime, now it can be done in minutes. Good 4 wheel drive vehicles. RAS
"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.
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Gore-tex. Pretty much everything else just got better.
The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
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breast implants....or is this just about rifles?
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To hell with the rest, the #1 most important development in the last 40 years is...
... having enough money to buy the guns I want when I want them.
Coyote Hunter - NRA Patriot Life, NRA Whittington Center Life, GOA, DAD - and I VOTE!
No, I'm not a Ruger bigot - just an unabashed fan of their revolvers, M77's and #1's.
A good .30-06 is a 99% solution.
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The internet. It's created more 1/2" shooters than practice ever did.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
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To hell with the rest, the #1 most important development in the last 40 years is...
... having enough money to buy the guns I want when I want them. Time to hunt. I'd give my left nut to get 3 or 4 full days off each Fall just to go hunt. Maybe someday.
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