I would agree that in most cases your right, the hunter should take 'responsibility' for his success/failures. And I'll be the first to admit that I've messed up more times that I care to admit.

However, there have been a couple of cases of the years, where I don't feel that it was my fault either....

Here's one that still gives me nightmares....

I spotted a book buck bedded in a picked cornfield with a doe. I had crawled through all types of nasty stickers, taken my shoes off (to reduce sound), I had done everything right in my opinion and had just closed the gap to 30 yards and was looking for my best shooting lane when my uncle comes driving through the cornfield with his truck (like 40 yards behind me). Some part had fallen off the combine and he was looking for it. Needless to say, the buck sprang up and took off - never offered me a shot. That's just plain bad luck, no ones fault....

Had he not driven through the field, I still don't know if I would have got him. But I would love to be able to go back in time and give it a shot.