If newbies didn't get skunked...
there'd be no deer left.
Hunting, truly, isn't easy. You don't get gifted with a deer.
A deer doesn't surrender to a newbie on the first day.
They don't surrender easily on any day.
Some newbies retire. They thought hunting was going to be easy, without thinking or knowing how hard it was.
That's why PA gives out more deer tags, than are collected by getting a deer. They know.