it probably depends on what the "challenging conditions" are:
Weather
Hunter interference
Wind
Terrain
Too many deer
Too few deer
Primitive hunting equipment
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The list goes on.
When I lived in PA where there was a compressed season and a million hunters, on public land you could not hunt food, you had to hunt escape routes. Where I hunt now, on private land, in a state with long seasons and liberal bag limits, stand hunting between bedding cover and food is effective and hunting food sources directly is possible.
Techniques vary from north to south, east to west.