ORIGINAL: NY Bowhunter
I would like one deer on my land [8D]. As long as it's the one I want to shoot. Honestly if I only saw one single deer all season and it was the buck I was after I'd be happy. I don't need to see or shoot a lot of deer. I could care less about "seeing deer". I care about seeing "the deer". Picking up what I'm putting down?
It's easy to say you don't care about "seeing" deer when you routinely see alot of deer. But I promise you, sitting out there for8 or 10 consecutive hunts without a deer sighting gets old real fast. I did that this year, and it was excruciating after about the 7th straight hunt without a sighting.
I'd rather see more deer, and kill less deer. Because I see so few deer during the season, I have this overwhelming urge to shoot anything that presents a shot because opportunities are so few and far between.