In the old days when I use to hunt upstate at deer camp there was no concurrent buck/doe season and because I only got thereone week a year with no preseason scoutingI was lucky to see a buck. Some times three or four years in between bringing home a buck. NEVER once did I consider hunting a waste of time.The anticipation of the coming seasonand all that goes with it, the prep, equipment checks, sighting in the gun kept me coming back year after year.Time in the woods is never wasted!!!!!!!Deer or no deer.