I love deer hunting, it fills my brain all year long. The only other thing that i enjoy more in the outdoors than trying to track down a buck is professional big game fishing. Granted i know ALOTmore aboutmarlin fishing than i do about hunting, but there are similarities. I have been fortunate enough to travel the world and fish for billfish in most of the big name spots you can read about and in many others that you will never hear about. Ive been lucky enough to set records and win tournaments. Over the years ive been a "hired gun" to come in and fish on peoples boats to help them win tourneys as well. That all being said in any given tournament, no matter how many boats are out fishing, 9 times out of 10, there are only a handful that have any reasonable chance of winning a tourney. Its all about time on the pond (woods in this case) and experience gained through it. Sure someone might get lucky every now and then, but i wouldnt go betting on it. In fishing there is a saying and i think it applies to hunting big bucks as well, it goes...... 10% of the fisherman catch 90% of the fish. Seams about right to me. Every year where i hunt, its the same guys who seem to harvest the biggest bucks. Sure there might be a random guy here and there who kills a brute, but you can bet your bottom dollar that the "usual suspects" will have theirpicture up in the pro shot with some serious bone in their hands.