I know the feeling. The tranny on my truck went out in the back pasture during the season. I limped it back to camp before it died completely and borrowed my uncles old Bronco. . . which I went out and high centered on the way to the stand. Fortunetly, I already had my 2 bucks by then and was going hunting with the video camera and rifle for piggys, but still, that was not fun. It's odd how thinsg work out. Texas, at least this part, had one of the best seasons in a long time. Right amount of rain at the right time made for some nice racks. All the little pencil horn cedar goat we were used to seeing became decent bucks and the big ones were awesome. I got mine, my unlce bagged a 16 pt monster (148 inches, which is unreal free range in our region) And a few more wall hangers were hanging in the tree.