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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.
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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 8:36 am to hooper27
I was in my climber in the same tree where I had killed a heavy 20" spread 12 two years before. It was the day after Christmas and the temp was in the high teens. Right at gray light in the thick palmetto about 75 yards in front of me two bucks started fighting, not sparing, I mean getting after it. They fought for about 5 minutes and stopped. About ten minutes later they went at it again. I couldn't see em but knew they were big by the sounds of the fight.
They stopped again and after a few minutes I heard a steady walk on the frosty ground headed my way. A heavy, tall racked 9 pt. was standing in front of me at 30 yards. I wanted to shoot him bad b/c he was a trophy buck but the family who owned the place had very strict rules and I was restricted to shooting something bigger than I had killed there before (sucks but true). This deer was close to it but the only way to know was to ground check him.
Suddenly I heard a racket in the palmetto and the 9 took off. Out of the thicket came a huge white horned 10 pt. He was running the first deer off. Big nuts stopped on a ridge almost in the exact spot where I had killed the 12 a couple of years before. No doubt about this one so I squeezed off the shot. Missed him. I was just sick and shaking so bad it was pathetic. There is more to the story
but it already sounds like bullshite.
They stopped again and after a few minutes I heard a steady walk on the frosty ground headed my way. A heavy, tall racked 9 pt. was standing in front of me at 30 yards. I wanted to shoot him bad b/c he was a trophy buck but the family who owned the place had very strict rules and I was restricted to shooting something bigger than I had killed there before (sucks but true). This deer was close to it but the only way to know was to ground check him.
Suddenly I heard a racket in the palmetto and the 9 took off. Out of the thicket came a huge white horned 10 pt. He was running the first deer off. Big nuts stopped on a ridge almost in the exact spot where I had killed the 12 a couple of years before. No doubt about this one so I squeezed off the shot. Missed him. I was just sick and shaking so bad it was pathetic. There is more to the story
but it already sounds like bullshite.
Posted on 11/12/12 at 8:57 am to hooper27
Thanksgiving day; I was about 16.
Big deer walked across the lane at about 60 yards. It had its head turned so by the time I saw it was an 8 pt, he was walking off the lane. This was before tags, and it wasn't doe day or it may not have mattered.
I grunted at him, and he came back to the lane and took about three hops away from me. Heart pounding and nervous, b/c it would have been my first rack buck. Right before he disappeared I got on him and squeezed the trigger.
Safety was still on.
Big deer walked across the lane at about 60 yards. It had its head turned so by the time I saw it was an 8 pt, he was walking off the lane. This was before tags, and it wasn't doe day or it may not have mattered.
I grunted at him, and he came back to the lane and took about three hops away from me. Heart pounding and nervous, b/c it would have been my first rack buck. Right before he disappeared I got on him and squeezed the trigger.
Safety was still on.
This post was edited on 11/12/12 at 9:03 am
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