I have been hunting pheasant with my father of 11 years and I just started getting into both Turkey and Deer.

I have only been once but I am trying to learn as much as possible in the off season.

I bought around 8 videos to get an idea of what to do.

Although I picked up a ton of great tips like deer drop when they hear a bow shot, how important scent blocking is, how to call, that grunting will stop a deer etc I think I'm a bit confused on reality. Also these vidoes seem like a freakin ad so I don't know if they are BS or not?

I live in Massachusetts and I was checking the success rates of bow hunters in the State and only 12% of bow hunters got a deer.

Now with that math you could hunt 9 YEARS and never get one right?

One of the women here at work's husband got one with a bow this year but he took the ENTIRE MONTH off to hunt?! He has been hunting 10 years and this is his first.

Are there a lot of poor hunters of is it really THAT tough?