You may be thinking about that sentence above, “How is that helpful?” The answer is simple: most criminals watch what most people are doing, note those predictable patterns, and then find vulnerabilities to exploit. Once a predator can predict what its prey will do and knows the preys’ vulnerabilities, that predator will lie in wait and then ambush its prey–quite often with spectacular success.

I employed this very same strategy to my white-tailed deer hunting this year. I started hunting a property three seasons ago. Just this year I finally realized the deer movement pattern and their attendant vulnerabilities. The result, I was able to predict their movement so well that I actually managed to harvest two deer just two hours apart and took a total of four deer for the season. (My freezer is full!)