I will hold out to the very end of the season for a mature buck that I want to look at on my wall for the rest of my life and the lives of my children and their children, etc. I will harvest a doe for meat but if I don't get a buck then I'm disappointed but the season by no means is a bust. It's like any sport, as long as I did my best and didn't leave anything on the court/field and did my best then so be it...chalk one up for the monsters of the timbers. If it was so easy to get one every year and was no challenge, then I wouldn't do it.