It's like that boost of confidence and then that subconscious whatever it does to your brain of... you know continue to follow whatever you're you're following like your mindset whatever you're chasing like you're right and just to keep going for it because like during that chase i'm curious did you come to a point wherever where you were just like i need to take a step back like i just need to refocus myself like recalibrate and just get out in the woods like did you do that and then did you see him or

yeah what i mean What I did was – and this is kind of how I explained it to someone who asked me a similar question at one point.

I said I went out every day with not necessarily the intention of – I'm trying to figure out how to say it.

I had to widen my aperture for what my goal was for each day.

My goal for each day couldn't be kill that deer.

because every day meant I was probably going to come home defeated and failed.

Right.

doing the things that you should be good at doing.

Sure.

Um, not every time, right? But it's, you're better off doing that because you're more likely to mess it up if, unless, you know, if you just kind of run in, right? When you first see them.

And so the next year I went out, uh, and this time I went by myself, and I got on, and I've told this story before, but I got on, like, a, a mega giant.

Like, still to this day, like, the biggest deer of my life.

Like, legitimate.

At the time, I thought he was 200 inches.

I actually met a guy who knew the guy who killed the deer.

Mm-hmm.

Because if you do that a whole season, it's going to be a really challenging and frustrating year.

Yeah.

I mean, for me, I mean, I think... let's just take like a new spot because I think it's easiest to kind of figure this out with a somewhat, somewhat a new spot that you're trying to figure out.

Right.

And I, and I do, this is kind of how I do it is we'll take a spot that maybe I've had some, you know, I've, I've done my scouting, the signs there, whatever it is I'm looking for, right.

Whether it's big rubs, primary scrape, you know, betting, whatever it is.

know i'm typically going to put a camera somewhere in the general vicinity right and i'm going to kind of monitor and for me at least you know let's just say from my experiences a lot of times it's big woods and so i might not even hunt that spot for a year i might just let a camera run for a year maybe even two years before i really feel like i know like okay there's a quality deer here that i want to hunt and i've kind of qualified it we'll just say it that way to move on i've qualified it and i want to hunt it right and i know that there's deer in here because i've i've got them on camera and i know that i'm missing deer because cameras don't pick up every deer that comes through the area right so let's just level set that right so if i go to start to hunt it and let's just say it's an area where it's going to be like a great like pre-rut spot and i'm having like over the course of like however long i've run cameras like i've seen bucks in here consistently whenever i start to hit that time frame and let's say it's like i'm consistently seeing does in here that's just a year round right so it's like i know i'm close to doe bedding right and my scouting has told me that as well when i go to start to hunt it and i'm getting the right what i think's the right weather conditions and i'm getting the right what i think is the right wind and i'm doing it sit after sit in this area and i'm just not seeing i'm getting skunked right i start to go hmm this place typically always has deer right i see them on camera i've seen them in here where i'm scouting the sign is all here they should be in here and I've hunted it enough days where it's like, I should have seen some deer or a deer.

So last question, one thing you'll do differently next year.