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When I first started having good success hunting I had a couple of seasons where I killed 18-20 deer. Truckloads of does on DMAP and doe tags. I used the meat, shared with coworkers, gave to Hunters $ Hungry but honestly after a couple of those seasons I grew lazy. I will still kill usually 6-8-10 a sesaon but more and more I find myself saying "I don't really feel like gutting another deer today" or "I'll letthis onewalk this time, I'dlike to be home in an hour". If it's not wasted and tagged correctly I don't care but I guess for me the novelty of just "killing" a deer
wore off.But I know guys like the ones you speak of, whole families of them. It is a huge ego trip for them. What I thought was funny was when VA made crossbows legal and the whole familyrushed out to buy crossbows (5 of them, 1 actually bought a compound)so they could hunt during bow season. Out of 5 guys they shot 3 times and killed 0 deer in 2 bow seasons and then proceeded to sell their crossbows and bow. But don't forget these guys are master hunters. I let em' believe what they want.

Oftenbeing a good huntercan be measuredby how many deer you didn't kill.