For the past five years I have been in a similar situation. I am now in my last semester of college (I had to take the scenic route), and I have had very little time to hunt. I have been lucky enough to getexacly threedays of hunting in the past two seasons. Two years ago I got two days and last year I got one day. In the previous years I got somewhere about the same amount of days per season. With this limitation I can say deer sightings are not easy to come by. The way I see it, it is all about averages. Some days the deer are just not moving around for whatever reason and you just aren't going to see much action. If you happen to be hunting on kind of a slow day you aren't going to have the opportunity at many deer.

I hunt on my parent's 40 acre property so we have a very limited amount of space, but we have had some success with planting food plots. The fall is often a busy time, but summer and spring is usually not as busy.We feel puting in some effort in othertimes ofthe year will help come fall.We have seen a definiteincrease in the traffic on our property since we started doing this. We are also surrounded by a lot of land that is unhunted so we have tried to give the deer a reason to come to our property.

As others have said get some game cameras and scout hard. Go scouting right after season is over when there is some snow on the ground and see how much activity there is in specific areas. Note where you see a lot of travel and look into hunting those areas next year.

To answer your question I think if you put limitations like these on all hunters the chances of success would be limited. Maybe if you happen to be in an area with an insane amout of deer you will always be able to tag out, but in areas with low deer density your chances are going to be limited.