I think it was too cold for the deer to move. But I shot four. Every body sead it was all luck, but I think its being at the right place at the right time. I shot my first deer (a 200+lb 7point) with my bow on my first hunt ever. I hope you get your deer next year.

Wow. Over 200 hours and not a single deer? I would begin to suspect someone boogered your stand.

Could you try puting a trail camera locked on to a tree so you can see if anybody is coming around your stand? or was it just a bad year in your county? good luck !!!

Maybe you overhunted this spot a bit? Were you close to the standing corn? trails? deer sign? If i sit more a few times at a spot and don't see a deer, i try another spot. You should rotate between a few different spots that way you aren't overhunting any of them.

Growing up my dad and I would get permission on a ranch and hunt if for five years, getting deer every year, then that 6th year there would be no deer at all. We would move across the river 5 miles away and there would be deer everywhere. I think that deer move with the food and the hunting pressure. After 3 or 4 years hunters start to figure out where the deer are, the deer get alot of pressure for 2 or 3 years and they change their location. I hunt in Colorado for mule deer, so it might be different for whitetails.

Try setting up cams with cable locks on all 4 or 5 of your spots camo them behind some lims so they wont be seen. See what dear and where the dear is coming from. I would also invest in some C' mere dear liquid. Keep a log with times and dates. Dear are animals of habit and will frequent spots by the clock if there routine is not disturbed. Do all this pre-season and you will know what you have and where you have it. And if your shot is better then your luck, You will have a dear!

I know this want help you but i saw more deer this year than i have any other year.

I agree. If something is not working, you have to change your tactics. Try different spots, different times, etc. etc.

I dont know whether you read the article in Field and Stream about baiting deer, but you may be messed with the deer's routine. It said in the article that if you put a pile of corn out there and the deer come and feed on it then the deer learns that it doesn't have to hunt else where, it waits til night and comes out. You being right beside a corn field is major minus for you. Another point in the article said if the deer knows or senses humans in the area they wait til night to come, this is true in my experience. After I killed my buck, every deer I seen was at dark and after dark walking out from my stand. I dog hunt too so on our club we use these food plots to get a idea of how many deer we have and what kind. You need to visit the corn field if at all possible. Walk around, if you see tracks or signs deer was there you need to move to another spot. And I would suggest in the next spot take you some cedar limbs and put cedar chips in your pockets. Deer love cedar. They literally come under my stand to rub up against it. Another thing never walk through where the deer will come from. If you have to walk all the way around. Here in eastern South Carolina we have plenty of deer. I still hunted every day from Thanksgiving to about Dec. 12 and every deer I saw was after dark. After the rut you can hang it up still hunting. I went dog hunting the last two weeks of the season, every day we killed at least two deer and seen lots more. If you definitely want to come back with a deer, It takes a dog to get a deer to move in the daylight after rut, and you can take that to the bank my friend!!!

I agree with Judy Black! There is no suck thing as a bad hunting season, esp if you enjoy just being in the woods. But if your just going or talking about killing something well mine wasn't much beter. I killed one doe and one bobcat and didn't see the first buck from a treestand.

Please tell me that you did not hunt 200 hours in the same spot! If you did, I am afraid to tell you that you got exactly what you deserve. I would opt to think that you hunted several different stand locations. Overall, you had the worst luck imaginable as far as harvesting deer is concerned. In this case, if you did not have bad luck, you wouldn't have had any luck at all! Better luck next year!