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TGO | Balancing the Ethics of Participation Technology in Modern Bowhunting

1,057 views · Published 31 January 2018 · 4:45 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: Tex Grebner Outdoors · 2018 · Sports

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This video is gonna have 1 of 2 outcomes: either no one is going to watch it or enough people are gonna watch it and get really mad at me. So here we go with this edition of Tex Grebner Outdoors!

As a 1st generation member of the Participation Trophy era, I'm well aware of the growing existential crisis that is occurring within my age group. It's impossible to existentially measure your self-worth without actually having things in real life to base it on, and if you got a trophy for coming in last, well then you've got nothing to base your self-worth on. Take it from a former fat kid who had his self-esteem shattered plenty of times by participation trophies and ribbons.

So what am I getting at? All of the above ties into the 2 sets of ethics I think all bowhunters should operate within. First off, make sure to use enough technology to execute clean kills on our chosen quarry. Second, realize the point at which too much technology devalues what we're trying to accomplish by making it unethical. Appealing to the lowest common denominator and making it as easy as possible is a slippery slope that I see the archery industry embracing in its marketing.

Being a bowhunter isn't supposed to easy, and my tribe of bowhunting brothers and sisters is at risk of being devalued due to the advent of participation technology.

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