Cypress32, Things like this have happened to everyone. I don't know about the 8 misses, but shooting something that wasn't what you thought. three weeks ago, I needed a doe down in order tohunt another buck. So, I went to my honey hole where i hunt for meat (doe). I had a four point walk up ten feet form my ground blind and laughed my ass off on how ignorant he was that I was there. I even told him calmly to leave and he just looked at me. LOL. Then a half hour later a "doe" walked out into the feild. I scoped him hard, because he acted silly, like a young buck, but I saw no ding-a-ling and no bumps on his head at all. He was a big bodied deer, later I found out 132lb dressed, which is average on this property. I dropped him in his tracls, walked up and instantly saw she was a he. Horrible feeling in my gut, of course, but it's one of those things that you have to deal with and decide if the sport is worth it to you to continue on. Fortunatly for me, this deer was considered, legally in VA as an "antlerless" deer which allowed me to tag him as such and move on to the big woods for another buck. Chin up. you are still maintaining deer management.