Please don't remind me.... [:'(][:-][&o] I'm going to have nightmares again about that monster 8 point buck that I missed last season. I mean, I had him - he was all mine from 20 yards away. I drew back when he sniffed the ground, but then, I started shaking and felt sweat run down my back. My heart was racing and thumping in my head. I had my 20 yard pin right in the breadbasket and hit the release. In that exact fraction of a micro-second of string release, the 8 pointer sensed something, and crouched down like a cat, with a reaction like, "Holy *$&@ what was that!" [&:] - then sprung about 5 feet in the air and leaped about 10 feet into the woods and was gone in a flash!

This is a prime example of what is known as "Buck Fever" and also "jumping the string".

Butch A.