As both a wildlife biologist and a hunter, I see alot of both. Like Rob said, some folks are open to learning, others don't care. If they don't care, or are too set in their ways, then there is little I can do to help. Too many people just really don't understand basic biology,and life is too short for me to try and forceunderstanding into them if they aren't ready to recieve it.Once again, as Rob pointed out, you can usually tell pretty quick with just a few simple questions what it what.

Some, as Arthur pointed out, will grasp at any straw they can to try and get a leg up. I have lots and lots of books on whitetail biology from well respected sources, and try to base my practices on sound theory, backed by my own experiences in the field. Even though the biologyof whitetails is basicallythe same, behavior can, and does, vary quite a bit from area to area.

To me, behavior is a very interesting field, and it doesn't really matter if you are talking about deer, or hogs, or people. Try and find the animals (or persons) motivation for why it does what it does, and theneverything ismuch easier to understand. Why do your boys leave clothes in the bathroom floor? Because they want to use the time to go play X-box. Send them to bed 30 minutes early (lose X-box time) and the clothes problem takes care of itself. You have removed the motivation to do what they did. Maybe that is a simplistic answer, but everything is motivated to do what it does for a reason. Find the true reason for the behavior, and then what to do about it becomes much more clear.

I may have gotten off subject here, but that is how I try and figure out the answers to difficult situations.