Exactly, so why not just say I didn't get it done this year rather than spew the old "I didn't get one this year because I didn't have a shot at an XXXer"?

If one does not succeed it is no ones fault but their own. This is all I am getting at, stop pushing the blame on the deer you never saw and put it on ones self for not getting it done.

Like I said earlier my "goal" for yearswas amature whitetail, the last few years it has been a 140 class mature whitetail. Plainly put, I succeed some years and failed others.