It depends on your definition of success. If you're saying big bucks, it's 95 percent location. If you're saying deer kills, it's probably 20 percent. Somewhere sometime ago and many years before that they put out this blurb that 10 percent of the people kill 80 percent of the deer. I believe that. There's a lot of yapping and chest thumping goes on on these boards... but for the most part there is a small group that kills their deer(usually multiples) year after year. If you take out the folks that have access to private paradises, the success really does fall. Inspite of the fact a lot of people have soulrun of private haunts, you don't repeatedly take macho bucks if they aren't there. We all know the macho deer states where 130 or 140 class deer is considered a little thing. We all know the states that have never seen a 200 inch deer or anything close to it. So who determines what success really is. I'm successful. I don't have to post a picture or tell you of my deer. My success would probably be poo poed in Kansas... but that's OK. Success is in knowing you went, you hunted and you completed your quest. It's not a competition.... it's an adventure. It's suppose to be fun.