willy, it's not "bait" that you need to bite on brother, it's simply an additional point of view.
Discussions are meant to be multiple points of view, not simply mutual admiration where everyone agrees to the same sentiment.
Just to illustrate that point: "Too many only look at the end result" (according to whom, too many out of how many, where is the data for that, etc)? Did we specifiy that we were limiting the discussion to the 1980s and only to bowhunting? I guess I missed that my apologies...
I'm not in the slightest attacking you or anyone else, trust me, I only come to these sites occasionally, I have no personal interest, it's just that when I see threads where everyone is "piling on" and patting each other on the back, that's what's called "group think" in science and business and it arrests educated thinking, so that's my point.
I personally have hunted with youth (specifically those who are currently 19 to 29 yo let's say) around the world (I have been to 23 countries and counting) who are extremely sophisticated in "the ways of the woods", some are even young guides that I have seen do incredible things with ambush placement, tracking, etc. I don't think they deserve to be lumped into the "99%" and someone has to stand up to the fact that they get a bad rap when everyone takes the negative talk route about "today's hunters".
Of course there are many true stories out there that support that some hunters don't have the ethics we aspire to - I guarantee we all know "a guy who works with my friend" who slaughters fawns by the dozen - and it feels good to tell those stories of course - but I don't accept the fact that the "the future is lost" because young people are not taught properly in mass, I give more credit to the human species than that.