man this is from my experience....everytime i have neglected to get my sorry a** out the bed... either my dad has hunted my stand and killed a big deer...or sum1 road hunting got the buck i was after at a specific spot...or sum1 spotted a nice deer next to my hunting area i had picked out for the morning or evening hunt. As a mattter of fact dad killed a nice big bodied 6 pointer 2 weeks ago during muzzleloader when i didnt wanna get up after a laaattee nite out at cotton eyed joes....that dagum thing hit the scales at a buck 50. so i guess u are doing sumthing wrong....success comes wtih time spent in the stand. ya have to put ur time in to be a consistent taker or trophy deer because they are a totally different breed of deer...nothing like their younger companions of the summer time an nothing like their opposite sex. although i know many people have went their first time an busted a big one... im not to say that quick luck is impossible but it helps to be an avid hunter to take lots of good deer.