One only has to look at the record books to see that this is not always true. Unless you're only talking about walking out your back door to hunt.

Dear Duke,
You must be smarter than that, the above in bold type is what the entire thread is about.

You can comprehend can't you?

I really hate to break it to all of you, but at the HNI meet I took some gregh's hair. I have cloned him and he is now scouting OH, MI and IN for me. I will soon have the best spots in all the land!!!!!!!!!!

I will sell a Gregh clone for 1,000,000,000 dollars, yes he's worth it.

BTW if you go to my hunting club there is not one picture of deer I shot. I tell you guys a lot more

I am sending Gregh3 to KY this week

If I moved to hunt other areas Greg.....wouldn't that mean I changed location? Now why would I do that? You mean.....go where the big bucks ARE? You mean.........(and where are most of the big bucks?)........like the midwest (speaking generally.....in regards to the US)?

I KNOW NC has a good deer.....big bucks. But....on average....how many P&Y's/sq. mi.? How many in your state? Ya think ya "might" live in a more target-rich environment?

Don't answer that. You don't need to. It's obvious.

Around where I hunt the bucks seem to top out between 140-160 but not to far away from where I hunt was a buck killed that scored 198". It was in Parke county Indiana.

Dude,
Are you too challenged to figure out that you may possibly find better bucks within your own state!!??

I've moved around several times to find better bucks both in and out of state. Don't be afraid to do some research, put in a little effort and see what you can find. It's called hunting.

Is moving around to find a good “location” part of being a good hunter?

It's called changing location.

If a mountain man goes out to get some game to feed his family and finds no game on his mountain then goes to the next mountain, is he still hunting, changing location or both?

Get as semantical as you want!

That depends on what you consider being a good hunter. If you consider a good hunter one who always takes 145"+ bucks then yes finding good location is necessary. All of the hunters that you read about that consistently take bucks of this caliber have moved around until they have found these locations.

Others will contend that a good hunter is one that consistently takes the biggest bucks in their area. That may be 120" deer. Either way you need to know what you are doing once you've got boots in the woods regardless of location if you want to take the biggest bucks in the area whether it be 120" or 180".

Around here there are plenty of pictures of 140" deer taken. They are pretty rare on the properties I have access to, but I'm working on moving on to get some access to better properties. There are some 160"+ deer around, but they are extremely rare. As Greg said earlier, the air is pretty thin at that level.