Perhaps it is because a person who comes on like he is above us and then asks for our opinion is not going to be taken too seriously. He says because he reads books he is prepared to hunt big game and pretends he knows how to hunt small game because he reads books. I suspect all of us read many books about hunting but we didn't have the attitude that we knew it all because we were catered to by an outfitter who did all the work except the easy part, pulling the trigger. My advice is that when a person thinks they are above the great unwashed, they don't ask them for help. All in all, trying to address this poster's questions which really are not questions has been more confusing than anything else. My advice to the op is to find a mentor and stop trying to do it yourself because he over thinks everything. Hunting takes skill and experience to be successful, but it isn't rocket science.