I've only done this one season. Was the actual hunt that got my 12 year old daughter her first deer hard? No. We sat on the edge of a field in a WMA and hoped to see a deer. But it wasn't the actual hunt that got us this deer.
It was the months reading about guns and balistics to learn what gun to buy. It was the months of reading and asking questionsabout hunting and safety. It was the months of nights at the range practicing with our new rifles.
This was all a lot of time and effort (we loved it by the way). So when the deer walked out at 125 yardsin a spot we had scouted for weeks prior and my daughter made a perfect, one shot broadside kill maybe that act was easy but there was tonsof effort put in prior to that shot