Like many have stated already, with the internet, there's good advice to be had, and there's plenty of bad advice to be had. It's funny (ok, maybe more ironic) that I didn't access HNI for much of my early years of hunting (although the internet did exist at the time), and I shot MORE bucks (albeit smaller ones) then. Once I found HNI, I became much more aware of the flaws in my hunting (although these may have been percieved, because, well, don't fix what's not broken, right?), but I'm buckless for most of my time here on HNI. I learned a LOT from people on this site, from the technical issues to the hunting strategies. I've started paying attention to the smallest details, entry/exit routes, map reading, scouting, managment practices, camo, etc. I'm seeing the results in terms of deer sightings, but like was already stated, it's more or less about how you APPLY the knowledge. That is what I'm terrible at

I learned a lot in my early years about the BASICS of hunting, and things only a father can teach. Maybe sometimes that's what we all really need. A return to the basics rather than an over-analysis of what should be a simple pursuit.