RE: You're only as good as the property you're hunting.....?
On individual level this is immeasurable. But generalizations can be made.
Having good property may make it more likely to kill a certain level (size) of buck, but it is no guarantee. Sometimes hunting “lesser” areas forces one to maximize their skills compared to a person who’s land is crawling with P&Y bucks.
You would be hard pressed to convince me that the public land I hunted in Ohio, is “better” than my home property in PA. Yet I killed a buck in Ohio, but didn’t even catch a glimpse of the 2 whoppers roaming my PA land. What does that mean?