YUP, I' m in all of them. I think this list of stages was made up by an unsuccessful hunter. You know, someone who had hunted for years but never got anything. I' ve really never quite agreed with this premise. I hunt with one ultimate goal.... TWACK. Everything else about the hunt is fun, enjoyable and a real hoot, but somewhere in the equation you have to loose and arrow. I' ll quit shooting somewhere along the way in a year and say, nah. But really it' s more of a real hunt if you go with the intentions, " I' m going to do everything I can today to shoot a big deer.....etc etc" . If I approach it with that mindset and don' t do it... so I' ll try tomorrow. No way do I strive to become a philosopher. YUK. YUP, it was a theory crafted by an unsuccessful hunter.