Article: Useful tools.(GEAR GUIDE 2005)

ALDO LEOPOLD, WHOSE UNFLINCHING AND TIRELESS EFFORTS BROUGHT US OUR FIRST PROTECTED WILDERNESS AREA (THE GILA WILDERNESS), HAD HARD WORDS CONCERNING THOSE HE TERMED "GADGETEERS." HE ONCE WROTE THAT THE MODERN OUTDOORSMAN HEADS AFIELD "WITH AN INFINITY OF CONTRAPTIONS, ALL OFFERED AS AIDS TO SELF RELIANCE, HARDIHOOD, WOODCRAFT, OR MARKSMANSHIP, BUT TOO OFTEN FUNCTIONING AS SUBSTITUTES FOR THEM." ARE YOU KIDDING? WE AT PETERSEN'S BOWHUNTING LOVE ALL THIS STUFF, NEED ALL THIS STUFF, WANT ALL THIS STUFF. CAN A GUY (OR GAL) HAVE TOO MUCH GEAR?

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Being a bowhunter wouldn't be near as fun without GPS units, practice targets, arrow quivers, ...

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