Their are WAY too many variables in hunting. I could list them but it would take years. They would include location, area of the country, time of year, wind direction when you are in your stand, the crop the farmer yielded that year, time to even get out into the woods, moon phases while your able to hunt, temps when you are able to hunt, trespassers, unleashed dogs, pressure, high water in your typical bedding areas, hunters on neighboring properties, ETC. ETC. ETC!!!

But I know this one very true thing...

And I don't consider myself a GREAT deer hunter at all.. but when I first began hunting 12 seasons ago I believed that you put yourself in a tree and waited to get lucky.
Today.. I work very very hard at deer hunting. My library of read hunting books will blow away any bookstore and any public library (combined) that I have ever seen. I have kept a journal for the past 7 deer seasons now. And fully detail each hunt to learn.. and learn again. I do spend nearly all free time (and I own 2 businesses) perfecting any useful skill I can that I may use oneday in the woods. I can identify most tree species and many, many plant species that deer browse on. I am a constant studier of all things deer. I want every advantage on a deer by simply knowing and understanding their behavior. And I make my own luck by never getting "lazy" when in the deer woods. I am in hours before shooting light and in my stand in the afternoon while most guys are still watching football. I work very very hard for every deer I have ever gotten.

Take a walk in another mans shoes before you judge him. Then you may think much differently.