Welcome back, Atlas.....and a great question.

In your definition....I think the "average" hunter has a good chance of pushing the deer I hunt off the property I'm allowed to hunt (they have options). But....any hunter with a lick of sense (I don't give the "average" hunter much credit, do I?)....could come in here and take deer. I say it all the time.....this isn't rocket science. I do some things that I think help my odds.....but I'm not foolish enough to think others woudn't learn the same "methods". The only thing I know, really, is where they are.....where they're going....wher ethey eat....where they sleep. These are things that could be picked up on by anyone over a period of time.

I'm just picking a name, here....someone I follow on the board and respect the way they go about their business.......Rybo (AN example of the aforementioned). Stick him in my woods.....and he'll light 'em up (as soon as he finds them...which wouldn't take long....given the size of my woods). Put me in his woods.....and I'd likely have to work a little harder to find them.....but I would.

Ive learned about all I can about the woods I hunt (+/- 60 acres).....and the deerthat "I" hunt (not all deer). I'd be taxed with learning another man's woods.....but let's take the mystique away......their brains are about the size of a pear. They need cover, water and food. We catch them around or on their way to these things.....or when they're amorous.

I stated a while back (in your absence)........I'd like to see what you (Atlas) would do in Buckeye's woods. In all seriousness.....I don't think anyone here would be surprised at what you drug out.

Nothing special about my hunting abilities.