ORIGINAL: GregH
Location does mean a lot. However it doesn't mean everything.
Of course not..........but assuming average to above average skills (not chuck adams but not a moron either) the "same" hunter willdown bigger bucks if given the chance to hunt property where they are more numerous. That in a nutshell is the foundation of QDM, AR,and the outfitting business..........same hunter......but bigger deer. One puts the hunter in a different location and the other changes the location around said hunter.
Did you all know that everyone who hunts in Pike Co.Ill, does not kill a P&Y? [:-]
Who's the guy that missed??
j/k dude
It must have something to do with knowing your quarry and there is the luck factor as well.
No doubt..........and I TOTALLY understand how it would be annoying to hear someone say the only reason you kill what you do is where you get to hunt. The opposite side of that coin is also a little annoying though.........hearing that location doesn't matter and the only reason I don't drop slammers every year is I don't want it bad enough. Not speaking at or about you.........just general tones we both hear from different sides of the fence.