Luck and Hunting
12-28-2004, 01:53 PM
#23
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 15
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.
12-28-2004, 06:27 PM
#24
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Montana
Posts: 586
RE: Luck and Hunting
Don't know who really started this phrase, but it's one of my favorites: "Success is when preparedness meets opportunity".
Another way of saying that without some luck, it's almost hopeless, but you've got to be prepared because you don't know when luck will strike.
One thing is for sure, if you don't get out there, you will need LOTS of luck to get one in your back yard, The more you get out there, the less luck you need.
Another way of saying that without some luck, it's almost hopeless, but you've got to be prepared because you don't know when luck will strike.
One thing is for sure, if you don't get out there, you will need LOTS of luck to get one in your back yard, The more you get out there, the less luck you need.
12-28-2004, 06:58 PM
#25
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 300
RE: Luck and Hunting
luck is a tool of the devil. When you want to kill a buck do not shoot a doe. If you are hunting for food then shoot a doe if thats what comes by and don't worry about what so an so killed. My friends say i was lucky cause i didn't get killed in a tractor accident , i say it just wasn't my time,my friends say i am lucky to have killed many a big buck ,i say it was because i was hunting bucks not luck. Don't let luck be a part of your hunt just hunt , the deer are there and none of them want to die .Do you think that when the deer run off untouched they say man we were lucky,no they say man what a lousy shot that guy was.
12-28-2004, 07:41 PM
#26
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Rockaway,NJ.
Posts: 621
RE: Luck and Hunting
Do you think that when the deer run off untouched they say man we were lucky,no they say man what a lousy shot that guy was.
12-29-2004, 01:23 PM
#27
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: minnesota USA
Posts: 411
RE: Luck and Hunting
ORIGINAL: little-d
luck is a tool of the devil. When you want to kill a buck do not shoot a doe. If you are hunting for food then shoot a doe if thats what comes by and don't worry about what so an so killed. My friends say i was lucky cause i didn't get killed in a tractor accident , i say it just wasn't my time,my friends say i am lucky to have killed many a big buck ,i say it was because i was hunting bucks not luck. Don't let luck be a part of your hunt just hunt , the deer are there and none of them want to die .Do you think that when the deer run off untouched they say man we were lucky,no they say man what a lousy shot that guy was.
luck is a tool of the devil. When you want to kill a buck do not shoot a doe. If you are hunting for food then shoot a doe if thats what comes by and don't worry about what so an so killed. My friends say i was lucky cause i didn't get killed in a tractor accident , i say it just wasn't my time,my friends say i am lucky to have killed many a big buck ,i say it was because i was hunting bucks not luck. Don't let luck be a part of your hunt just hunt , the deer are there and none of them want to die .Do you think that when the deer run off untouched they say man we were lucky,no they say man what a lousy shot that guy was.
12-29-2004, 02:28 PM
#29
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 590
RE: Luck and Hunting
That's really well said Deerslayer. My point in stressing the luck aspect of hunting is to urge people to get out there and hunt. You break down the luck element if you spend a lot of time in the woods. (The more times you roll that dice the better chance you have of scoring.)
