Been there done that. I know your pain. I once watched 5 bucks all summer,..just about every night and/or morning. I always hung back and observed from a far so as not to mess them up. There was a massive 12 point, a 10, 2 eights and a 6 in this bunch. They were all just really nice deer. The only basket rack was the 6 pointer. I just knew opening day of bow season I was going to have my pick of the 5. I knew within 50 yards where they would be bedded every day and their travel routes in and out.

Opening morning I was back off a gas pipe line about 100 yards(totally private land mind you) an hour before daylight. I had taken the trouble of hanging two stands there at 10 PM night two weeks before in a sure enough downpour just to avoid spooking the deer and stinking the place up. I stayed away from the place the week before the season. That week the 6 point jumped into the front windshield of a car 100 yards from my stand and was killed. Two days before the season the 12 point was killed on the road. We know it was him because of a droptine. So opening AM I"m hoping for one of the eight points or the 10. Just as it got light enough to see the ground I see headlight and a big engine roaring up the pipeline, then another truck, and another, and another. Then up the pipeline a couple hundred yards there's all kinds of racket and machines and I was coming unglued. Finally after about an hour I got down and started walking out to the pipeline. Here comes two more trucks. "What's that big pile of dirt I see through the trees?" Long story short, in the week I was gone they had dug a 10 or 15 foot deep trench about as wide as my house between my stand and where the deer fed. Through them all off their patterns. The final tally. I shot the 10 point, we found one of the eight points in a field with a slug hole in him long before any guns season came in. My buddy shot the other eight. These 5 deer lived their lifes out in a 35 acre long narrow patch. 10 point is the third set of horns on the wall. 22 inches inside.