Last year for me was awful. Even though i did get my first deer with a bow last year i only had 2 buck sightings nither of them mature. This year i have only had maybe 2 sits where i haven't seen deer and ive hunted a bunch this year. Ive had 6 buck sightings and 2 of them were mature and i was able to arrow my first buck with a bow this past sunday, a 120" 10pt. So last year sucked for me and this year has been amazing.