Hey uncle matt, what about the guys I hunt with here in northern New England that can only shoot one deer/year and they hunt the big woods, no crops, no fields, just miles and miles of woods owned by paper companies. Plus some of these woods have less than 10 deer/sq mile, yet they shoot no small deer for the meat, it's all about tagging that one bruiser. And yes, they go home empry handed some years after the season is over but it's the challenge of trying to kill only that mature, big old buck.