Dinah, for me, it depends on how you hunt the deer to make it the challenge you are looking for to get that since of personal accomplishment.
I love to bow hunt them on the ground and in a climbing stand. Spot and stalk is one heck of a challenge when its just you and the deer.
Putting the sneak on a doe in an open field to finally run an arrow through it is some kind of excitement for me!
I don't knock it at all but I have never killed a deer from a box stand overlooking a feeder or food plot. Its not a challenge for me and don't care to do it.
I have legally shot a few meat animals from a truck though and will continue to do so. They tasted good but I didn't get any satisfaction as far as hunting goes.
Other than that, Id rather hunt with a dog than anything.
Yea, we have a deer lease which seems to be more of a camping experience. I love to camp but we actually do more deer hunting, sitting very still either on the ground, or on the 4 wheeler on the woodline next to a hay field not too far from our house. It is very difficult for me. I guess I am too hyperactive. LOL I don't have anything against it, I just get more pleasure from hog hunting with the dogs. I guess, in my original post, what I meant to say is that hog hunting is way cheaper than deer hunting and I find that hog hunting is more fun ( to me ) and I hope that hog hunting never becomes the big business that deer hunting has become. I wasn't trying to poke diehard deer hunters with a stick.
