do you delete some of your RAW files?

If I take images for a certain reason then I keep any and all that are not OOF or have people cut off.

But if I am trying to learn a new technique most if not all of the trial shots get tossed.

I shot about 850 shots this past weekend at the beach. I kept 818 so far. 50 of them will probably go on my site for friends and family to view, probably 5 or so worth printing and 1 so far that will be a candidate for the next POTN book, while the rest get kept as snapshots just because.

I'm a pure hobbiest and probably will never print more than a dozen images and wont have a gallery and am a terrible perfectionest and I chuck 75% of what I shoot.

Right now I convert to DNG and import those into PSE for processing. The original CR2s are stored on my networked HD for reference in case I ever need them. I then go through the DNGs in PSE and get ride of what I don't want. I've been experimenting a lot lately so probably half or more are tossed.

I throw away a lot of the RAW files.

I often take photos of horses at shows, and quite often i'll press and hold the button for continuous shooting ( Say for a jump ) . In such cases there is often 3 or 4 shots from each set that simply aren't worth having . . . they get ditched immediately. Horses legs are a pain to to get right for a photo. Quite often they aren't straight and look odd. So again, a lot of shots get immediately ditched because of this.