RE: Do number of deer kills confirm thorough skills?
Some observations of this years harvest of my friends who deer hunt! Out of 19 people who I personally know that hunt whitetails, 12 of us use some sort of archery tackle too hunt deer right from the start of season.
Of these 12 we had a total of 15 tags to fill this year, all have been filled, a few(4) during archery season, and the rest were filled in various firearm seasons. The other group of 7 who do not archery hunt, but hunted 1 week of firearms together in the same area as most of the 12, did not score on a deer this year!! Theres got to be some correlation between the success of the archers than those who dont use stick and string!