IMO I think that all three are equally important.You could have the perfect land and if you have no skill how are you going to hunt it? You can be lucky but you need some sort of skills to get lucky. If hunting state land and their is high pressure then go when the city guys aren' t in them,like during the week or do more scouting in the places that they don' t get into.But we' ve had successful sesaons on public lands and we did what I had said.