Brian Pfleuger
Moderator Emeritus
It's really impossible to narrow it down like that. There are areas around here where people have been hunting their whole lives, they know there are deer in the area, they spend the whole summer getting ready and they go the whole season without shooting a deer, yet they'll shoot 5 the next year.
Does that make deer hard to hunt?
Well, there are other areas that I've hunted that I set foot in once in my life, went there opening day and shot deer.
What's that tell you?
Then again, I say it also depends on whether or not you mean "kill one" or "kill a trophy".
Most "normal" people who have to hunt unfenced land of reasonable acreage with deer that cross multiple property lines will never, in their entire lives and probably their children and grandchildren, kill a deer with a rack scoring over 110-120 inches.
Certainly, if the question is "kill a deer" and I can pick where I want to hunt, I can virtually guarantee a kill in one day. If the question is "We're dropping you here, kill a 140 class buck.", well, no way, no how.
I would guess that the same is true of most game animals.
Does that make deer hard to hunt?
Well, there are other areas that I've hunted that I set foot in once in my life, went there opening day and shot deer.
What's that tell you?
Then again, I say it also depends on whether or not you mean "kill one" or "kill a trophy".
Most "normal" people who have to hunt unfenced land of reasonable acreage with deer that cross multiple property lines will never, in their entire lives and probably their children and grandchildren, kill a deer with a rack scoring over 110-120 inches.
Certainly, if the question is "kill a deer" and I can pick where I want to hunt, I can virtually guarantee a kill in one day. If the question is "We're dropping you here, kill a 140 class buck.", well, no way, no how.
I would guess that the same is true of most game animals.