I can kinda see both sides of the coin.
1) Last year when I started, I had no idea how valuable scouting was and thought that deer just randomly walked around wooded areas. So i thought veteran hunters just knew where the deer where from the years of being in the woods.
Bottom line, whether we like it or not, hunting is a dying sport. It can be seen by the numbers of decline in permit or license sales nationwide. Participation in sports usually always begins when you are young, ask sport fans why they like a team, or why they participate and I'll bet 95% of them say because my dad, uncle etc.. when I was younger.
The same holds true to hunting, its a sport. Thats why the state holds special youth days, and the nra spends alot of money in their youth programs.
The problem is circular, the future of the sport depends on the youth participation, and hunting is unlike any other sport that killing becomes an aspect of it. So unless a youngsters parents / guardians participate its unlikely a kid is going to. In order to perpetuate the future, you must increase the current participation rate as well.
With adult license sales declining, the exposure rate that kids are exposed to the hunting sports declines.
As a beginning adult hunter, one way to get me sucked into the sport to perpetuate and passs it on to my kids, would be to find game immediately and get me addicted. I know its not the essence of the sport, but thats the only way you are going to lure in new adults, and potentially the future (youth) of the sport.
So on that note, if I was a veteran hunter and a person asked me for a hunting spot, I'd take them out one weekend and bring them to harvest a deer.
After that I'd explain why I knew the deer were there, and let the addiction take its toll on them!!
2) If I did give them a spot and they complained about seeing deer, then maybe they aren't ready for the sport or just don't know any better.