I'll try to explain what I meant now that I had a little rest:

It seemed like the topic to me was turning into a comparison of hunters. What I mean is basically does one hunter who shoots many deer have MORE skills then one who does not shoot many. And my answer to that would be not necessarily.

The original question to me seemed like you (C903) were asking if the number of kills is associated with the number of thorough skills for am idividual. What I meant by my last post is that you can intreprete and the question a lot of different ways. You also have to assume what is meant by kills. Such as number of clean kill, the yardage of the shots, number of deer in the area, hours in the field, deer that are killed but not recovered etc,etc,etc. You also have to make assumptions with the word skills, such as did the individual setup his bow, did he scout and set up his stand himself, did he practice with his setup, does he know where to but the arrow, etc,etc,etc.

No matter what, a person that can consistantly bring deer into 30 yards, draw his/her bow back, make a killing shot on a deer and not be detected by a deer does have skill.

So just taking the question the way it was written without putting in any of my own biases or assumptions, I would say yes in part to your question.




Edited by - BobCo19-65 on 12/07/2002 06:42:55

Edited by - BobCo19-65 on 12/07/2002 06:48:45