I can relate. My dad used to tell me stories about when he was my age he would hunt litterally every weekend and wouldnt see a deer. He said before the season started he saw so much sign it was rediculous, but after hunting all season he saw one deer total. He said it was to the point that if you saw a deer you got pumped. Now deer live in subdivisions and are out of control in numbers. While we have a better deer population today i still think it is just as hard as it was then, because the task of everything going right and that deer getting close enough, and to succesfully kill one is still equally hard.