It sure isn't all luck but it sure does help to have some. For instance I've killed my 4 deer which I can use in a 1 year period. The next deer if it happens will go on the wall. We don't have as good of hunting as most of you on here but I could easily kill between 10 and 15 deer every year if I wanted which I would consider none of them luck. I spend every free monent either trying to outfigure the deer at home or sitting on a stand. On the luck subject I have a high school buddy who hasn't hunted in 20 years beg me to take him hunting. So on Christmas Eve I give in and let him borrow my gun, my clothes all the way down to my socks. He wants to hunt a box stand so he can bring a heater but I talk him into hunting a stand on the opposite side of a clearcut from me. Well yall can probally finish the story from here, not 1/2 into daylight he shoots what turns out to be bigger than any buck I have ever shot in my life. Yes that was luck on his part, but if it would have been me on that stand it would have been cafeful planning. Although you can have the best stand in the world it still takes you being at the right place at the right time, and the more time you spend in the woods just increases your chances.