Researching is great for hunting, but it's not so much about making conscious decisions always,it's about ingraining ethics, and good strategy and knowledge, into your INSTINCT, so that you don't have to think about it. There's always going to be calculated decisions you have to make, such as stand location, no doubt, but in general, when hunting on the ground, it's about fast decisions, where you've got to understand the woods, understand behaviour, movement, you gun,etc. Just stuff that you won't have time to think about.

It's about getting it into you, as a part of you instinctive reaction, not just sampling ideas.