Was this because you let them go?
Yup well at least two of them.The other two just really frustrated me that I had spent all that time scouting and setting up for them,to have them end up dead along the road.
There are sacrifices to be made to hunt like this.BTW, I'm not married.
Not being a wise guy here, is one the reasons your not married anymore because of the amount of hunting you do.
One other thing that switched me from a trophy hunter was taking my son out at an early age. He couldn't sit for hours and do what a person must to hunt solely mature deer. However one of my most memorable hunts was when I took a small buck he grunted in out of a ground blind we set up.