My position hasn't really changed from my answer to this question from last year, which I think pretty clearly established the community consensus that a question really does have to be directly about the competitive aspects of a sport for it to be on-topic here, particularly if there's another site on the network which would be a good fit for the question. In that case, it was Physical Fitness, in this case it's The Great OutdoorsThe Great Outdoors.
I don't think it's worth getting so grumpy about this - just post the question on The Great Outdoors and get the answers you're looking for.