Yeah, I know what you mean. There are some real experts here on this site. I moved back to Washington 8 years ago and decided that I wanted to kill a big muley (I remember people doing it fairly often back in the 80s when I was a kid). Turned out that the mule deer habitat had been declining the whole time I was gone in the Army. By this time last year I was thouroghly convinced that there were no big mule deer left in Washington State. Then I found this site. Photo threads from guys like Boneaddict showed me that I am just looking in the wrong places and not scouting hard enough.
Hope you enjoy yourself and learn as much as I have...