I've been involved in some major way with 4 kids getting their first deer. Nothing better. I've also been around or with several adults who had had little or NO success until they got their first. I really have fun when someone else gets a deer. I've shot enough that it really is more fun to see someone else get one when I'm along. BUT....... NOTHING replaces that time alone in a tree as you release the arrow and hear <font size=4><font color=red>TWACK !!!!</font id=red></font id=size4> That's still the reason I go hunting. Alone at 20 feet hearing the twack and watching the animal run and tumble. Nothing better.