Originally Posted by: RaskolnikovI hunted for four years without even seeing a legal deer, much less shooting one.

If you weren't probably more interested in the sporting part of hunting I would recommend snares. It's easy to bag deer with them than with any firearm. They also have a 98% hold rate, which is remarkably humane when you compare it to the percentage of deer that get wounded by rifles but not collected (I think the stat is 19%).