RE: Luck and Hunting
Here is the way I look at it. There is a base percentage chance of killing a deer, lets say X%. Your skills and environment affect that percentage, it is constantly changing. An expert deer hunter may have X+Y% chance, but may also have X - Y% chance if unbeknownst to him someone spread coyote urine in a radius around his stand. I lump the environmental factors into a "luck factor". However, skill and the environment are not unrelated. A more skilled hunter can better control the environment factor than an unskilled hunter. It is usually a matter of semantics whether you "believe" in luck or not. I don't believe in some mysterious force of luck, I simply call unexpected developments lucky or unlucky depending on how they affect me.