Originally Posted by
Woodsman603
That's what I'm thinking too.
Man, I'm not going to sleep for days. I feel like such a failure. It'd be fine if I missed. But knowing I hit it and was never able to get it is eating away at me. I don't even want to go back to try another one but it feels immoral to shoot another.
That's a normal feeling and lot of us have experienced it, me included, on what would have been my first deer.
The thing to do is learn from it. As miserable as you are feeling now, it will be the absolute opposite when you get your first deer.