Sounds like a "glass half empty/half full" kind of thing to me. I usually don't even think/worry about it unless I did something obviously stupid, like miss the shot or move when I shouldn't have. Look at it this way: in the eyes of some here every professional baseball player is a failure (or fails a majority of the time) because they fail to make it to base safe MOST of the time. A batter with a batting average of .500 is still a failure half the time. I doubt he'd look at it that way but apparently some would. If you want to break hunting down to a simplified statement of killing an animal and then break down the numbers to pure statistics than YES technically EVERY ONE OF US ON THIS FORUM IS A FAILURE! Even if you limit out on P&Y deer ever year 99% of your time will be spent failing. Personally I don't think of it that way and don't care to worry about it. Fishing is probably 90+% failure cast to catch ratio and on and on. It's just not the way I think of things. I'd be suicidal if I did. You guys enjoy your half a glass of empty air, I'll drink my cold water.