It's really hard to say how good a hunter is based on the property they hunt and the deer that they take unless they are doing it consistently in different areas. An example of this would be a friend of mine who has some exclusive rights to some nice property in NJ. The genetics aren't the best there, but the age structure is there to let the deer get older. He tags a pretty good buck each year and has hunted this property since he started hunting. Does this mean he is a good hunter? I don't know. I'm fairly certain that if you took him out of his comfort zone of his familiar property and put him on another property with different dynamics and good deer he would eventually learn to find and kill them because of what he has learned on his property over the years. However, it may take him 5 or more years to get there.

There are guys on this site, like Iamyourhuckleberry that travel around and find and kill good deer wherever he goes. I think he has been to so many different places he now just knows what to look for. The fact that he has been around mature deer helps him know how they think.

The bottom line is, I believe that if you took a guy that kills a mature buck off of slammer property year after year and a guy that sees a mature buck about once a decade because they are just not there and put them both on the same brand new quality property the guy from the good property has a distinct advantage. That guy has been around, seen, observed, and killed mature bucks. He KNOWS what they will do because he has seen it first hand. He doesn't have to guess. So, that is the factor that plays the most into success on any given property is the experience with mature deer.