I remembered a friend my dad brought hunting with us. The guy has never hunted, did not own a gun, but wanted to go hunting. He borrowed a gun and we took him hunting. My dad dropped him off on the river bank and told him to walk in the woods about a hundred yards and just set down. About 30 minutes later he kills a nice 8 point. Monday when they got back to work he returns the borrowed gun and when asked about his hunt he replies "I will never hunt again, it was nothing to it, no challenge."

I told this story wandering how many people have missed out on the challenge of deer hunting due to stories like this. I was not fortunate. I hunted for 5 years before killing my first doe. The other point I was thinking about is the post about the young kids making unethical shots and not valuing their kills because deer are over populated where they hunt..It is not a challenge to them..Like shooting ducks in a barrel. Thanks for letting me ramble.

davwilli: go ahead and ramble, all the stories are good!
I used to know a guy who also quit deer hunting because it was "too easy". He liked to walk through the thickest stuff he could find. He said, "All you do is keep walking until a deer jumps up. If it has horns, you look through the scope, and when you see brown, you pull the trigger." After a few years of that, he quit - - no challenge.
I too hunted about 5 years before getting my first deer. That one did walk up to me and stood there while I shot him. But, on the average, I have definitely had to pay my dues between each and every deer I've shot over the past 40 years of hunting.

My first deer was fairly easy. I hunted an alfalfa field that the deer came in every night. I had to hunt about 5 times beforeI got a great shot, butI dropped a dumb 8 point chasing some does in it's tracks with muzzleloader.I am extremely proud of the deer, but am into bowhunting now for the challenge.

I got my first deer within 45 minutes of my deer hunting career. A doe at 10 yards with my 30.30. Im gonna keep thisshort and just say that i mostly hunt for foodbuti also enjoy chasing after that big buck (there arn't too many of those around here). Ive never had the luck of just being able to walk around and shoot a monster.

I tell ya, if it ever gets to be like shooting ducks i a barrel, I'll quit!

I am currently on my 4th season since taking my last deer/doe. I had one 11 yards shot with bow at a doe on bow opening weekend, but missed (yes 11 yards). I have usually been able to see deer, but most of the time just didn't have a shot (like a 100 yards away with bow). Hunting is not easy, no matter what some people may say/think. If it was easy, like golf, I would probably quit as well. Some people just get lucky for good stretches, but slow times will eventually get everyone at some point.

I hunted 9 days of deer season -- all day long for 5 of those 9 days, including the last day of the season -- before I shot my first deer 15 minutes after sunset on the last day of the 2002 Oklahoma deer season, therefore with 15 minutes remaining in the legal hunting season. I had passed on a small buck on opening morning about 9 AM who stood around for about 15 minutes about 100 yards away, across a pond. My host had been bragging about what big bucks there were on this property I natually decided I would hold out and shoot one of the big bucks.

In 2003 and 2004 I took a deer on opening morning. In 2005 I took a deer the evening of opening day. This might be looked at as being easy hunting, and perhaps it is. Nevertheless I relish my hunting time. I don't hunt for challenge or for big antlers, I hunt for the good delicious venison that I harvest and for the joy of being in the woods at this time of year. Now if it was as easy as walking up to a cow grazing in a field and blasting away . . . I guess I might give up deer hunting, but it isn't that easy where I hunt.

My 'easy' first kill.It was my first season and I was 12, I was so psyched to finally be able to deer hunt. So i am super excited and am out for the evening hunt on opening day. I hear something walking towards me and I turn and look and it is a big doe slowlly getting closer to me. Finally after what seamed like forever she gets to a spot I can shoot. I slowlly aim my rifle and pick a small point on the shoulder and pull the trigger. Click! Im so excited that when she turns around and slowwly walks away i cant figue out what was wrong, so I work the lever and pull the trigger again, Click! And then one more time, Click! So then she starts running and giving me no shot and it dawns on me, The safty was on the whole time. That one was tough to swallow it would be the rest of that season and the next two before i would get another shot at a doe my 4th season. Needless to say I remembered my lesson and took the safty off that time, and everytime since, Knock on wood!

Its not just about the kill.....The work involved may make for a quick season, I know there are months of prep before season that may pay off....Thats what makes it special, not to mention the time spent with friends and such.

Deer season, or any season for that matter can be an awesome year even if nobody shoots a thing. Its about the times and the memories...and a whole lot of BS- ing!

I sat in the woods with a stick for 3 years and finally got to hunt with a gun. Sat for 3 whole days sun up to sun down to get my first doe and at 12 years old thats a long time.

My dad who has been hunting for 20 years now has killed 3 deer total, and he comes back year after year for this stuff, not to mention to see us, his kids succeed at what he taught us.
I just passed him up on the total number of deer killed this month with a total of 4 and i have been hunting forunder 10years. All but one of those deer--this years deer-- Have been off of stands which he helped to pick out.

Our success is his success!

Just my two cents.
Pines

i'm pretty young to most af yall i 18 it took me 4 years to kill my first deer. i had shot at some but clearly missed because i became to nervous. but now i don't get excited and nervous when the deer comes out but right after i pull the triger thats when the shaking starts. i have been hunting for about 6 years know and have killed only 6 deer but i an;t complaning . i think if someone thinks its too easy they need to come to where i hunt and let them sit in the stand for the hole day and right at dusk see one then they will not think it is too easy. i will tell you one thing deer hunting will never get to easy for me because you can never know everything about deer hunting