And that's why its open to conjecture....You would have a hard time spotting and stalking deer on our farms in Eastern NC...Pretty hard to sneak up on a deer when the cutover is so thick that you are on your hands and knees, same with our thick cypress swamps, every step, your foot sinks a foot in the bog....This pretty much dictates that you sit and wait....

Frankly in NC its nothing to kill 5-6 deer a year, the season starts in mid-September with bow and down east the gun season comes in about October 10th and runs to the end of December...I'm more into the challenge of hunting with a bow or a flintlock, that's what keeps it fun....I don't worry about rack size, as the county that our farms are in have only produced one B&C buck that I know of (that's the down side to a large population)...I don't shoot small bucks anymore, but the local dog hunters sure do, so a 3.5-4.5 year old buck is pretty rare....

On the flip side, our turkey population isn't as good as other Southern states...My hat goes off to the hunter that can kill 2 good gobblers each year...In my opinion that's tougher (and more fun) than deer hunting...

Actually, I judge a "good" deer hunter by the hunter that kills a deer every time he pulls the trigger....I seem to have less patience as I grow older for the guys that won't (or don't) take the time to learn how to hit what they aim at and learn where to aim to have a clean kill....