Lucky vs being good
12-29-2009, 07:30 AM
#12
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 60
I tend to think you create your luck - not always, but usually. By scouting and doing everything right, you put yourself in a position to have luck on your side and increase your odds. Also, it's more satisfying to feel like you did something to earn your success rather than just falling into it. I suppose it's fun to be lucky at first or from time to time, but over the long run, I'd rather be good.
12-29-2009, 07:56 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: North Louisiana
Posts: 3,050
I think it's more like 90%. I think a good hunter knows where to look for deer, but then luck plays its part if the deer shows up or not. Deer hunting is not hard at all. Even if you kill trophy deer on a fairly regular basis, you still have to be in the right place at the right time. If you hunt an area that holds a lot of big deer, you are eventually going to be in the right place at the right time.
12-29-2009, 07:57 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 3,406
Luck certainly plays a part in deer hunting, especially over the years. And yes, I certainly have been lucky at times. That being said, I would rather be good than lucky.
I also believe in the old statement: "The harder I work, the luckier I get"
I also believe in the old statement: "The harder I work, the luckier I get"
12-29-2009, 08:04 AM
#16
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: San Antonio, TX
Posts: 246
You prepare as much as you can and hope for the best. Luck plays a huge role and bad luck.....two weeks ago I woke up to a flat tire on my truck, had to change it, didn't get out in time to get to my stand before the deer. Is that the morning the big one came around my spot? /shrug who knows? I hunted my pasture all season a few years back and the one time I set my brother up to hunt it, he shot a monster buck I had missed early on. I was hunting an oat field once, set up in some brush laying prone under a stand of oaks one evening...I heard a shot and a buck came flying out of the brush off to my left and ran right out in front of me and stopped in the open, 100 yds away(incredibly, I missed! I was alot younger then 
)
I could go on and any number of us could....in the end, the more luck and preparation (ie, being good) you have in equal measure, the better your chances.
)I could go on and any number of us could....in the end, the more luck and preparation (ie, being good) you have in equal measure, the better your chances.
12-29-2009, 05:08 PM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Garfield NJ USA
Posts: 3,067
I think it's more like 90%. I think a good hunter knows where to look for deer, but then luck plays its part if the deer shows up or not. Deer hunting is not hard at all. Even if you kill trophy deer on a fairly regular basis, you still have to be in the right place at the right time. If you hunt an area that holds a lot of big deer, you are eventually going to be in the right place at the right time.
12-29-2009, 07:58 PM
#20
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Stumptown, MT
Posts: 152
Well being lucky might mean nothing if you aren't good. I was helping a buddy find a buck this fall when I heard some deer moving our direction about 45 min after we arrived, so I told my buddy to get ready, but he takes his sweet time making noise and all, just to spook a big 4x4 whitetail. I guess we were lucky, but because he isn't good by any stretch of the imagination, we went home empty handed.