If your happy, I am happy. Anyone truly proud of their harvest is deserving of congrats and hand shakes (regardless of experience, weapon or rack size/sex). The ones that tick me off are the "I settled" group...but that's for another day.

Hunting is personal enjoyment and goals..no one can tell you how you should feel or are going to feel while hunting. (See above statement for clarification)

I am too a trophy hunter, I know all to well how buckless season or tag/track soup feels and yes it can wear thin. However I have started to realize the positives out of these buckless seasons. examples: extra time in the woods (only have one tag per year), learning new spots, seeing great potential deer, deer habitats, etc...well basically learning. I feel with every buck tag I have hanged on the wall unused it provided me with as much, maybe more knowledge than the horns of a used buck tag. To me that is exciting and keeps me pumped through the lows. I believe in doe reduction and culling out over the hill bucks and if my season runs down to the last hour I use it on a mature animal for the table. Never ended up without meat and always feel satisfied.

Shooting a wallhanger every year is probably impossible, due to many variables...so if you go into trophy hunting with the thought of 20 years/20 heads your set up for disappointment, IMO.

Now sometimes a re-focus period is required, such is the case here. If you have to sit down and say what makes me tick...than is time for a re-focus and possibly a start over. You realized this and now are back on track to what makes you tick..congrats. If shooting animals keep you in the sport and pumped to keep at her...horray! Please yourself not others...hunting 101.