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buck fever
Posted on 11/12/12 at 6:34 am
Posted on 11/12/12 at 6:34 am
have you ever had it? we were hunting in south texas one year. seeing a lot of deer, but i was trying to kill at least a ten point. I had my back to an oak tree watching this trail. A button buck comes out and walks within ten feet of me. All of a sudden it takes off past the tree. I turn and look. Here comes about eight doe's with a huge buck. their coming down a fence line which was knocked down about fifty yards out. I lean my rifle against the tree and look in the scope counting the doe's. All of a sudden i hear something running next to me. The buck had jumped the fence and ran right next to the oak tree. I could have jumped on his back.I turn and pull up my rifle, look in the scope all i see is fur. I shoot and miss. i shot directly under him. The buck jumps striaght up in the air and stops trying to fiqure out where the shot came from. I could not believe i missed him. My hands are shaking. I had a browning single shot. When i cracked the barrel to put in another shell he took off. Everytime i deer hunt, I think about that buck.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 6:37 am to hooper27
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have you ever had it?
Yes indeed, except it doesn't set in until after I shoot (thank God). I'm a cold blooded mother fricker when I have something in my crosshairs and act like a 5 year old after I shoot. I've been known to yell loud enough for everybody in the woods to hear it after I kill a buck.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 6:50 am to hooper27
If you don't then you're doing something wrong
Posted on 11/12/12 at 7:26 am to hooper27
I get duck fever if that counts
Posted on 11/12/12 at 7:32 am to hooper27
I will stop huntin when I lose that feeling.
Been hunting about 30yrs and I believe I shake more now than when I shot my first
Been hunting about 30yrs and I believe I shake more now than when I shot my first
Posted on 11/12/12 at 7:33 am to hooper27
I still get buck fever when I see a doe.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 7:44 am to hooper27
heck yeah, i've had it, bad. not anymore with a gun, but after shooting a nice buck with a bow, sometimes my legs be shakin' coming down with the climber..
Posted on 11/12/12 at 7:47 am to hooper27
Monster buck that we had on camera several years busts out from behind a palmetto at 20 yards. I shot where my eyes were focusing...at his antlers. Still makes me sick. I need a beer.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 7:48 am to hooper27
Yes indeed I have. Nowadays it doesn't usually set in till after the shot like Downshift said. I think I'm good at controlling myself until the shot is taken.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 7:50 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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I've been known to yell loud enough for everybody in the woods to hear it after I kill a buck.
I've hearded it.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 7:52 am to Slickback
I missed a really nice deer about 4 yrs ago. Twice. I still to this day don't know what happened. I wasn't nervous till after shooting the 2nd time. I checked my scope after and it was on so that wasn't it. I replay it in my head all the time.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 7:57 am to BarDTiger81
I almost strangled a motherfricker Saturday. I had been watching a 6 pt and a couple does feed. Sun was going down so I texted my buddy to text the dildo they let hunt with them to hold off before he came got me. There were several deer around me and kept looking around.
Big buck comes busting through the opening and runs all the deer off. About a minute later the does pop back out. As I'm waiting for the buck to show again, here comes the fricking Ranger.
Big buck comes busting through the opening and runs all the deer off. About a minute later the does pop back out. As I'm waiting for the buck to show again, here comes the fricking Ranger.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:01 am to Slickback
I know the feeling. Had it happen to me before and I was fricking enraged.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:03 am to Slickback
AMEN! On those rare occasions when I had to be picked up, my instructions were not to even attempt to come get me until it was absolutely dark outside.
Oh yeah, had to edit because I forgot... Yes, had buck fever even with does. Still get it. First deer I ever killed was a doe over 45 years ago. Still remember that. Shook like a kid freezin to death.
Oh yeah, had to edit because I forgot... Yes, had buck fever even with does. Still get it. First deer I ever killed was a doe over 45 years ago. Still remember that. Shook like a kid freezin to death.
This post was edited on 11/12/12 at 8:07 am
Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:03 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Yes indeed, except it doesn't set in until after I shoot (thank God). I'm a cold blooded mother fricker when I have something in my crosshairs
This. Then I'm like Stan Potts after the shot.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:05 am to prostyleoffensetime
Stan is a weird bastard
Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:12 am to BarDTiger81
I get shaky as hell when I see one, legs jelly if i have to stand or turn, arms shake when im slowly raising bow or gun. Once its up im cold as ice. Once its down to just hitting spot, I've done that thousands of times. After I'm a big five year old. The day my heart doesn't race im out of it.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:14 am to Slickback
ATV's are not allowed within a 100 yards of my stand unless it is to pick up a downed deer
Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:25 am to BarDTiger81
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Stan is a weird bastard
I love watching him... "Gimme a second folks"
Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:28 am to prostyleoffensetime
Bear with me folks, lemme put my bow down. That is a giant folks, gimme a second.
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