Never hurts to review the basics, does it paka.
Unless I have a really good feeling or reason that theresgame really close by my arrows will always stay in their quiver.
You hear or smell the animals, or you're in a specificspot that you know is hot;you know they're right there and you'reputting on the sneak, in stalk mode, taking great care to avoid every twig and stoneunder your feet... That's entirely different than travelling from point A to point B in the woods with a nocked arrow, hoping something will turn up to shoot at.
This is something that hit really close to home for me some years back and it's why I'm sucha jerkabout it. A very good friend of mine almost bled to death on a huntbefore they could get him to a hospital. He was walking along a cow trailwith a nocked arrow on his bow, brain in'tiptoeing through the daisies' mode as he put it. He tripped over a root and somehow the broadhead wound up going through his thigh and cut his femoral artery. If he'd been alone that day, he wouldn't have made it.
It's like seat belts and motorcycle helmets. You'll almost never really need them, but that one time you do need them... Basic safety rules and equipment will save your life, or keep you from putting yourself in danger in the first place.