As I lay in bed flipping through the latest edition of a well-respected gun dog magazine, an article titled "What Happened to Simple" grabbed my attention. The author is a long-time columnist for the magazine who shares healthy perspectives and insights on various bird-hunting topics. In this article, he lamented technology as the ruination of upland hunting.

The author said, "We have become so dependent on gadgetry, you might say we've lost our way...to discovery, to independence, to self-reliance."

The author qualified his perspective, explaining that the use of a global positioning system (...