My season was a tale of states......go out of state, and I do fine. In state, its a suckfest.
Hunted a total of 8 hours of Archery in CT in Sept and took home two does for meat....saw many more. My buddy took a 180# smasher in rut. Don't hunt rut there anymore, but I may go back to it, cause MA sucks.
Hunted 20 hours in Archery on 100 acres in Kentucky and saw about 30 deer, passed on 120 inch buck, saw much bigger buck with no shot. Multiple doe and dink buck kill opportunities. 100 freaking acres....Amazing.
Hunted 34 hours in MA bow and gun, saw one lone doe in archery, and one dink buck, passed them both because I'm particular in MA and there aren't enough deer around. Hunted another 37 hours of Shotgun, saw one skipper in Wachusett and nothing around the house. Its kinda been this way quite a few years in a row now..... 71 hours total in MA - 3 sightings. Around me...just not good. Deer pop is thin. I don't have or want to spend gobs of time hunting.....I spend way more in MA than I should.
Didn't hunt rifle in VT or NH because I went to KY, so spending on KY lisc was same as I would have normally spent on NH and VT.
I'm not totally done, I may get a CT lisc and bowhunt January if the weather holds.