Great Question!
Your buddies family owns a lot of ground bordering a park that had AT LEAST 120 deer in it one day and your buddy can't see a deer?

Deer are getting SMARTER. I can't get anybody to hear me on this. All this trail cam, driving side by sides, hanging multiple stands and moving them every time the trail cams say they deer have moved, and lets not forget FOOD PLOTS...All this traffic is educating deer.

Gimme 40 acres...keep EVERYONE OUT OF IT till Halloween and I'll see deer every time I sit and I'll get an opportunity at a nice buck.