I always kill something. Squirrels, skeeters, time...etc
I don't feel unsuccessful unless I am just not seeing much game(notice i didn't say killing). I get frustrated if sightings are low. Fresh air does wonders for the soul regardless
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I see something each time I go hunting it's all in weather i choise to pull the trigger.
I suppose everybody will have a different take on what makes a hunt successful.
Being able to kill a deer does seem to make a hunt more successful, but just being able to go to the woods makes it a success in my book.
To some folks it's a year long project and to others hunting may only be 2 or 3 trips per season. I get a big kick out of just riding down in the woods and pulling the SD card out of a camera and wondering what's on it, if anything? Putting out mineral in the same site for years is a mark of success to me as you see a depression that gets deeper each year as it is visited by deer throughout the year. Sitting in a shooting house that has a notch cut on the window sill for every deer that we've given a ride home in the back of the truck, this is success, even if we never kill another one.
The proceeds of a successful hunt are many as we think of what we gain from the time in the woods by ourselves or with family and friends. If we are too successful, we have to spend time and/or money in processing our success into edible portions for our family and friends. One of our favorite sayings after a successful hunt where no one killed a deer is, "At least we don't have to clean one tonight!"
Treefarmer
I am along the Nacho line of thinking. Stabbed myself in the arm afew years ago with an arrow tip .Hit an artery. still loss of feeling. 3 stitches. truck broke down coming home one year. My wife likes it very much when my son or son in law goes with me. I was at my lease this week and saw 2 does. that is all. what a great week. no stress, no mother in law, no nothin". great week.
