Could the lease be hunted out from too many years of too many hunters, etc? That can happen with bad game/land management-I’d be looking for another place to hunt at that price with no venison in the freezer...
I did. I quit that club.
From my 50+ years of deer hunting experience, deer habits and travel are set by the senior doe. If she is killed, and there is not a herd leader doe in waiting, the deer may move. Bucks go where the does go.
Some leasers will shoot the Lead doe and not understand their mistake. We may all have a BIL that will wound any doe that walks in front of him and is too lazy to track her down, only to have the buzzards point her out days later.
Unless your lease is truly ‘anti-deer’ habitat, feeding them the right stuff year round can get them back.