I've had a good season even though I haven't clicked the safety off. I am truly blessed that I was able to buy my place 20 years ago that has a couple of good old hard wood bottoms that circle my house. I decided to let the undergrowth get thick in places and have a good habitat for the deer even though its not a huge property, I join unhunted large property. I feed year around and the deer are low stress, unpressured herd. I do not even go to the back of my property until the right time, right wind. I just was not fortunate enough to get my target buck this year as he was killed across the road from me. I had a lot of history with this deer and got real itchy on him last year. I saw several nice bucks that I let walk and that gave me satisfaction to know the potential for the next year. I guess i have read too much Aldeer and only am going to be happy with the 4+ year old buck. We eat a lot of deer meat, but I have a connection for meat from the place in Waverly where if not picked up than I can buy it at a great price for great meat. So, I read of people that have neighbor problems, thieving issues and I am just happy all around when deer season comes and goes. It's just hard to beat sitting on the porch watching deer cross the road or slip in the back bottom and have a cup of coffee with my binoculars.

To top it off I have two Original Mountain Cur's that won't even bark at a deer, I'm ready for deer hunting season to be over now, that's where its at watching them do their thing. Not my worst season by far.

This guy gets it it ain't always about seeing 25 at a time or killing a goodun even though that is what all really wanna do

I hav had seasons where I hardly shoot - May shoot a doe - some years not even that

This year was probably one of my best years - killed more deer than I ever remember killing - i never been a big shooter even in high school

I shot 3 solid bucks - 2 with bow (cross bow) and one with muzzleloader and 2 bow does. It was my first year to really bow hunt

I got a solid 6 year old showing up in daylight last 4 days according to camera but I done w bucks - maybe he make it

Worst season for sightings was many years ago, when I saw a whopping two does all season and that was when season was winding down. Worst season for enjoyment was about four years ago when they cut the timber on the property I was hunting, the summer before. The neighbors realized they could now get their 4wheeler in there and I couldn’t keep them off the place. I even ended up giving a GW a key to the gate so he could come and go as he pleased to try and catch them. This was a place that if I went hunting on any given day and saw less than six deer, it was considered a bad day. An absolute great place to take the kids. The trespassing, and poaching, locked the deer down and I ended up seeing three does on two separate occasions all season. That was it. I gave it one more season and just gave up on the place. I got tired of chasing people instead of deer.

My worst years were right after they changed it from two weeks of "doe days", to a doe a day. When was that, around 2000? Then the brilliant idea of 2 does a day. We went from Seeing 15-20 deer every weekend, and killing a lot good bucks, to 10-15 deer sightings a year. It stayed that way until about 3 years ago. I guess all the doe killers finally figured it out.

I had a good year and looks like several will make it to next year that I got on cams. I went from 2 to 7 cams this year and was pretty amazed what was around and basically nocturnal.

This year. Looks like I’ll be buying more meat because the freezer is empty.

This year was my worst, I did kill one that I would have let walk last year because of some people will shoot if it’s legal so I got my freezer full, anyway I’ve had way better years and not killed any deer , I didn’t see many like previous years and had more seat time than ever since I’ve been off since Jan 3 and retired Jan 31 had plenty shooters on camera before season and they disappeared and the few we saw during rut were at night, we only had 1 wall hanger this year , maybe better next now time to fish

Worse season...what...? Who has one of those? Sometimes you just have to celebrate the little victories and being able to get out there and see the amazing sunrises and sunsets. The rest is like gravy on top of a good biscuit.