I got my first saddle at the end of the 2019 hunting season so obviously I didn't get in on the contest. I joined the contest the next year (2020), broke my ankle in October. No deer that year for me. The 2021 season I hoped to contribute, nope. It was a rough season with a lot of missed opportunities and failure to get in the woods as much as I'd hoped to. So now we are into the 2022 season and Deer Contest. With new duties at my daytime job and trying to get my own business up off the ground I decided not to get in the competition this year. Wouldn't you know it, the year I don't enter the contest I find ways to get into the woods more then the two previous years combined and on October 22nd I shot my first buck with a bow and first deer from a saddle. Plenty of doe with the bow but never a buck, Just my luck. Anyone out there regretting not getting in the competition this year?