ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
I was just wondering. Does a hunter HAVE to become better at the end of each season based purely on time in the woods? Does each and every hunter learn more each year they are in the woods? Just being in the woods, deer encounters, the surroundings, seeing sign, etc.... does one automatically become a better hunter on the last day than they were on the first even if they don't know it? Or is it up to the individual to apply what they see and make themselves learn from it? Is it a passive learning approach or aggressive? Just curious on your thoughts.
NO!!
It is up to the individual to apply what they've experienced in order to make it a learning experience.
I have a brother-in-law that spends a lot of hours in the woods each fall and he is still as clueless as he was when he first started hunting!!