Take heart! I hunted for 3 or 4 years before I got my first deer! It was very trying, but I learned a lot! One very important thing that I learned, was that you've got to hunt were there are huntble number of deer!Once I started hunting land that had a fair number of deer, I started killing deer every season since! This year and last year, I have been hunting land that doesn't have that great of a deer population, high preditor, and poaching problems! The best cure for that is to find a better area! Good luck!