[quote=bluebird2;3580962]Just as I wouldnt expect to go golfing once a year and shoot a par neither should a one day hunter expect the same success rates as a guy who scouts all year. If you bowl once a year, it's probably pretty much a forgone conclusion you're not gonna roll a 200. If I dust off the bowling ball and roll a bad score, it aint the alleys fault! Same with deer hunting. The more you put into something, the more you get back.

Hunting is not a competitive sport to most although many of your posts reveal that it is just that to you. When someone here who supports AR posts a success story or a photo, most on this board congratulate the member. You on the other hand tend to come up with an rationalization of how that hunter somehow was extra lucky or had some unfair advantage. Youve suggested that I buy deer, you've suggested that I and others benefit from having access to better areas, You suggested that blkpowders buddy was just plain lucky when he got a nice muzzleloader buck in a place they'd scouted well and the most preposterous rationalization you've made over and over is that when DougE harvests multiple deer from public land all over 2G, he's benefitting from reduced pressure and now has his own de facto "preserve" on public land in 2G. Besides being just plain silly, All those posts are just bursting with competitiveness and jealousy.