Excellent post Spoiler. You're right, they controlled the whole thing and managed it intensively. The more property you have under your control, and the more $$$ you can expend on your management program, the more you can accomplish. It's just plain facts and math. If you've got tight regs, 1000 acres good land and you plant 50 acres in high quality year round forage, you're gonna be successful and see some good hunting. But if you've got 10,000 acres of good land and plant 500 acres in high quality year round forage on it under the same rules, your gonna be way more successful. They controlled enough land and had enough money to do it right. That situation was ideal, unique and will be very hard to ever duplicate again.