dan wrote:Let's face it, hunting is luck. Yes we can prepare ouselves and educate, but the bottom line is we don't have a clue what a whitetail is going to do.
I couldn't disagree more.
There is a lot more to it than luck... Yes, you can be in the right spot at the right time and the deer just does somthing weird.
But by trying to outsmart the bucks and figure them out we can certainly out hunt those who do not use skill and planning.
I continuasly get nice bucks in a very over hunted marsh near my home where I figure less than 1% succeed. Lucky? Maybe once or twice. Consistantly seeing and shooting big bucks? Thats skill and hard work.
Failure would just push me harder to succeed.
I see I pushed some buttons here and people do disagree, that's cool. I understand that there are a lot of hunters out there that take nice bucks every year - i.e. our friend AutumnNinja. I put a lot of time and money in chasing down whitetails, and adopt the same tactics that others use, with no luck. I never give up nor will I, or maybe I don't have the foggiest clue what I'm doing. I'd like to think I prepare and educate just like everyone else does. Maybe I'll get a crack at decent buck and everything will come together and it will click, but it's been a long time coming for me and no shooter or decent buck for that matter for me yet. Dan I remember you saying in your hunting public land hunting video about your standards for bucks. We have some good bucks but, not a lot of monsters roaming in these parts. I know the bucks in my areas that I hunt and the score isn't to important. We don't have'em like WI, TX, KS, or your popular states, I just find this season to be less than mediocre and not producing like they have in the past. I guess more time this summer into scouting for me.
And to wmihunter, I do know what this site is all about; that's why i'm here.