I wonder if long ago when the Indians or frontier people went hunting for game and they didn't kill anything how they viewed it. I'm sure they still had a good time and enjoyed themselves but the other folks back at the camp might have a different opinion ecspecially around dinner time.

jj

I think each season comes with successes and failures. There is always something to improve on, something new to learn, a better way to do something. I killed plenty of deer this season(8) so I consider my season successful. I let some deer go that I chose not to shoot, another success in my mind as far as hopefully helping that particular area I hunt produce some better deer. But I also missed a doe with my muzzleloader, failure. I had problems with my muzzleloader on another day and shot primers off at two different deer, failure (equipment failure, damaged breech plug). I missed threeother deer with my shotgun, the last being yesterday, and that deer just happened to be a wallhanger(the biggest buck I saw this season), so another failure.

Each season has successes and failures and you can learn equally well from both, sometimes you learn more from your failures because they stick with you and leave a bad taste in your mouth and you have plenty of time afterward to analyze what you did wrong and figure outwhat you can do differently in the future to keep that particular failure from happening again. But there is one thing that is certain,there will benew failuresand the real question hereis this : Do you judge your season based on just your failures? I would certainly hope not.