All of my spots have:
Pros: TREMENDOUS potential to grow big bucks.Good cover, fair amount of food and very good genetics.

Cons: Plain and simple hunting pressure. I am confident that if I could have any of the 3 primary farms I hunt on TO MYSELF with exclusive rights and it was archery only I could hang a mature buck on a consistent if not yearly basis.
Problem is that the deer go nocturnal, get pounded in archery AND rifle season and the ones that are smart escape to a few unhuntable patches to live out the season in peace revisiting the core area and destination feed fields at night.

If you do not have a lease, or be lucky enough to have a family farm or some other Honey set up 9 times out of 10 if you get permission to hunt a particular farm or patch of woods there are already 1/2 dozen or more guys hunting it. Its not hard to get permission on many farms here in SC PA, whats hard is getting permission on ones where other guys aren't going to screw it up from the opening bell.
It's so bad that I am heading up to my one landowner's place this week to throw some cash and a plea at him to give me exclusive bow rights to the property.

I can't take it anymore. It CAN be done but you have to set yourself up perfectly for opening day or at most the first 3 days or so of the season OR rely on some sort of forced movement to see a buck in daylight where I hunt.
After that you might as well almost put your stuff away until Nov 1st and then when you finally see a buck or 2 on it's feet again the second week of Nov, season is OVER ,thanks for playing ,see ya again next year.