Congrats, as well. Several years ago, I was like you. I had hunted with my dad when young and never connected. Then when I got out on my own, I got real serious about it, and one year I got my first deer. The same year I got an elk. Then the next, it was a javelina. I think you develop a sense of where the animals will be and how to see them when they're there.
Oh, and yeah...no photos...it didn't happen!
