Sorry I did not chime in sooner. I've recently returned from stay in the hospital.
Our camp recently took on a new member, who had been hunting on his own for decade without having any luck. We got his cherry popped but good. Pursuant to that, I wrote a series of posts offering him advice.
If I were the New Guy at CampYou're welcome to hunt around that site as much as you want. There will be a lot of good info on deer hunting you may find helpful.
I had a lot of encouragement getting started from friends, but they were all getting older and I ended up mostly hunting alone for a couple of decades. It was a hard way to go. The better way would have been hooking up with folks who hunted and leveraging their experience. Making those connections is hard. Learning via DIY is even harder.
Best of luck.
