pretty much everything cardeer said, its kinda like the needle in the haystack deal, another thing to consider is the carrying capacity of the area, some can support 20+ deer in a mile other area may be hard pressed to maintian 1, this year i have only killed 1 doe so far, we still have a few days left, i have not seen the shooter buck i was looking for. a normal year for me is 4-10 deer i'll shoot all i can (does) during archery season and 1 scrub buck during all seasons, then i'm looking for a good buck, most years i end up killing 3 does and 2-3 bucks, i probably need to kill more does but our archery season this year was the pits, more skeeters than anything because of the heat[:@]