Dont underestimate how much knowing the land helps in tracking.
There is no excuse for not knowing the property you frequently hunt like the back of your hand.
Todays hunters don’t know what they have. They don’t get out and look at their land, topography, creeks, habitat types, trails, etc. They just hunt over food plots and corn for the most part. If they have to leave the field to trail a deer they’re as lost as if they were in a Brazilian jungle. 😂
I’m not kidding. I’m making a generalization here, but it has shifted to more of this type hunting over the other. I even feel slightly convicted by it at times because I’m not teaching my boys to hunt anything like I did as a kid.