Don't feel bad, it's been 7, that's right seven years. And just like you, I take the time to get all my duckies in a row, but whatever can go wrong will. I've had everything from poachers stealing my stand to peole walikng their dogs right through the area, to a group on a nature hike marching through the area. I didn't have access to decent land until a month before the season this year. I kinda stepped in it this year though and everything looks really good. But I look at it this way, a hard fought victory just tastes that much sweeter. And I'm gonna say something that's been on my mind for awhile now> man you guys and gals in the rural parts of this country with access to large pieces of prime habitat that hold tropht animals in a well managed herd have it made>I can't wait til me and the wife settle down and get us some land in the future. Just keep at it, it's gonna happen, you gotta believe.