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Old 01-24-2008 | 01:50 PM
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Atleast one deer per year. I am that way, I feel like a total failure if I dont get atleast one deer per year. Last year 06/07 I didnt get a single deer and at the end of the season I was hunting hard and just couldnt make it happen. However during our RUT I had to attend a class for work in Atlanta for 3 weeks. But this year I made up for it, I killed a bobcat, 5 deer ( shot six but made a poor shot on the last one and didnt make a fatal hit, tracked for about 250 yards before the blood just stopped ) then I shot a 200lb hog. But I just feel I need to get that one kill under my belt. I know its not about the kill, but I feel like a failure if by theend of my 5 month deer season I couldnt pullatleast oneoff. Anybody else feel like this?
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Old 01-24-2008 | 01:53 PM
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I don't know about a failure, but it is a man's job to put meat on the Table

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Old 01-24-2008 | 01:54 PM
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I dont feel like failure but unless I get one with my bow there is a void...
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Old 01-24-2008 | 01:56 PM
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ORIGINAL: MeanV2

I don't know about a failure, but it is a man's job to put meat on the Table

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First time in 13 years I got skunked.[:@] Not that I couldn't have taken one, or two, or three......




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Old 01-24-2008 | 01:56 PM
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i have killed one every year bowhunting, except 1999....had the opportunities, just did not shoot
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Old 01-24-2008 | 01:58 PM
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If I hunted as hard as I do.....and spent as much time and energy (and $$).....and didn't get a single deer in a season......

Yeah...I'll be honest. I'd feel like I failed......or let myself down.

If I hunted in some of the places that guys here do, though....I might not feel that way. I live in a target-rich environment. I admittedly have larger deer density than most.
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Old 01-24-2008 | 02:01 PM
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If you really do feel like a failure,then you are hunting for all of the wrong reasons.
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Old 01-24-2008 | 02:04 PM
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The pressure increases as the season goes on. I would feel like I failed if I didn't shoot at least a doe. I would feel sorry for the chipmunk I take my aggression out on at the end of the season.
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Old 01-24-2008 | 02:04 PM
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Old 01-24-2008 | 02:08 PM
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If you really do feel like a failure,then you are hunting for all of the wrong reasons.

i hunt beacuse i enjoy being outside,i enjoy the rush,i enjoy watchin the animals,i enjoy being with friends an family while hunting, an i also hunt to EAT.... if i dont get atleast one deer to eat then yes i feel i failed. even though all the other things happened....
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