RE: POLL: Can you buy hunting success?
Money can buy you the opportunity to experience success, but it is certainly not a guarantee. You still need to have the time, skill, energy, and put forth the effort to be successful on a CONTINUED basis with mature deer.
Furthermore, I think there are different levels of success in every hunter's career. Having the money to go on fully guided hunts every year or lease a tract of prime ground may allow someone with mediocre hunting ability and a decent amount of luck to kill a few decent animals, and maybe even a giant, but to kill a truly mature, giant whitetail more than 2-3 times in your life you need more than just money. I know guys hunting on some of the best ground in the country that have yet to kill ONE buck of a lifetime, let alone kill one every year.
Money affords opportunity, it doesn't guarantee success.