Back a couple of years after points restrictions went into effect, the Game commission released a statement about lower success rates. The official stance at the time was that the deer are getting older and smarter, and the hunters were not changing to be successful. The next season I only hunted two days and while I did not sit a stand, I walked about 8-10 miles each of those days. I crossed 2 deer tracks that season in old snow. Neither were fresh. I guess the deer got so smart they cover there tracks.
