Jim:

Was this directed at me? If so.....my strategy THIS year has changed. Yes.

I NEED to thin does. It's not necessarily the way I WANT to hunt. It's far from it. I could approach my hunting a lot differently if I were trying to hunt 1 deer. If I killed one deer a year from now on.....and it was a deer I was happy with.....I'd feel like a successful hunter. I don't have that luxury.

All that being said.....I hunted the way "I" wanted to last year. I still put myself in position to take the only maturebucks I saw. Was some of this "luck"? Sure. But even if it was....it lends credence to the methodology I've been talking about all through this thread.

Don't think I'm in this to kill as many animals as I can. That woud be far from the truth. I'm doing what needs to be done.