ORIGINAL: farmcntry
Let me ask this. If you are in your stand and a small 6 point walks up 20yds away and you let him go. Was that hunt successful or not?
If that was the deer I was after, I would not have let him go. It would not have happened.
BUT, if I did let him walk in search of a bigger buck that I did not shoot, yes, my season was not successful.