KS,

David Morris in his book "trophy whitetails" talks about this quite a bit and so does Greg Miller in his book bowhunting big woods/forestlands. Anyway both of these guys talk about how often BIG MATURE Bucks hang out in places people would least expect, imagine that...a smart buck hanging out where no was pressuring an area. Along comes the new hunter, really has no care in the world other than hes pumped to be out hunting. Randomly picks a spot and guess what...Mr. bigs been using it a lot since no experienced hunter is around nor have they been. New hunter caps his arse....The old bucks have humans patterend way better than we give them credit for..they do here anyway..they really figureit out in many cases..if it wasnt for the rut mistakes andhuntingmany would die of old age.

You bring up another point. Guy kills a pig in his first year or two...then thinks..this hunting thing isnt so tough...kinda easy actually then go for 10 years without getting another hawg..not to mention not evenconsistently killing anything even close to themature beast he killed in the beginning ... The catch 22 of beginners luck...

I don't know about you, but I killed a button buck when I was 12...then gradually progressed over the years as my goals and what not evolved.....never had a luck monster just show up out of the blue...not one gimme..in 25 years...

Good post interesting topic... forsure..