You are hunting your best spot on an afternoon. The shot oppurtunity came along about 1 hour before dark. You make a decent shot, get down an start tracking what you feel is a 180 class just before dark. Your tracking job goes alittle further than you thought it would that evening. You found your deer about 300 yards away, but the antlers are not onhim.They must have fell off when he took off running right after the shot.
You go back to try an find them but no luck. [:@]

How does that change the way you feel about your buck of a lifetime. I know this is hypothetical but has it happened to you with a buck of that class or a nice one period. This is on my mind an I know it has to weigh on some of your minds.

My thoughts, really can not say,they seem somewhat clouded about thewhole ideal.