I tend to agree with most every thing said, with only the local adjustment for the typical range a deer is shot at...In northern NY we are mainly wood shunting, and although you may be able to see a deer a fair ways out, dang few deer are taken farther than probably 75 yards, yet people obsess over sighting at 200 and never learn what their rifle will do at close ranges. The past twenty years I don't think I have shot a deer further out than 50 yards, honestly speaking.
And absolutely agree with the original statement about peeps getting in the woods early and staying late. I have a couple friends who bum over never seeing anything, but they are only going in the woods a 1/2 hr after sun up.