mauser as already well said by others, bow hunting is entirely different from gun, I have killed a lot of deer with a gun, buck fever only got me once with a gun, but I was lucky, recognized it and put it under control and got the buck of my lifetime. You would think that with a lot of deer under your belt you would not get the fever with a bow, WRONG! The first deer I ever had a clean shot at with a bow, presented me with a perfect 20 yard broadside, head down feeding shot, I was calm, I obviously was over confident also, I had this deer already field dressed by the time I put the pin on her, the second I released I realized I had missed my anchor point and sailed the arrow right over her back!!!!

I have to say there were two things that helped me out getting my first bowkill, one was I mentally double checked everthing before I released, but it was also weird in a way, because unlike in the past with a bow, I had practiced so much that shooting the bow felt just as natural to me as shooting a gun. Don't get me wrong, I practiced a lot before and was putting 6 out of 6 in a pie plate at my maximum comfortable range, but it had never felt "natural" until then.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Proud father of a Devil Dog