The best experience I have had with buck fever, is with a friend of mine. He is asthmatic and not the best shot around. On this particular day, we had been hunting in the Northern Forest area looking for whitetails. Cold overcast morning so we were not seeing much move. We headed south and arrived at our hunting area around noon. Had our lunch and it was time to get back at it. Because of him asthma, my friend does not handle the cold (can't breathe cold air well )so typically we drive him to where he is to post, then we head back to the other side of the bush to do the push. This day with just the two of us, we decided to check out the smaller bluffs in the area. We circled around the bluffs looking for tracks in the fresh snow. Circled one bluffabout 75 yards in diameter, only saw one set of tracks going in. So I headed to the opposite side of the bush from where the tracks went in to drop of my partner. Asmy partnerwas loading up his rifle, I did a quick look into the bush and noticed "antlers" swaying. I yelled at him that there was a buck in the bush and to get ready. No sooner said that and out comes the buck. A good one. Runs right past us no further than 50 yards away. Well my partner got so excited looking at the rack that he proceeded to pump all four rounds from his 270 into the ground. At least the rounds were in the general area of the deer. So off goes this great buck. Story's not over yet though. Next bush was 100 yards away andthe buckheaded into it. This bush was maybe 150 yards long and 50 yards wide, too big for one poster to cover but we decided to see if that buck was still in there anyway. Again, I drove my partner to where he was going to post and I headed back to where the buck entered the second bush. I walked half way through the bush when I could hear the 270 making noises. I rushed to the end of the bush following the buck's tracks and there lay the buck. It ran out in front of my partner instead of the opposite side where no one would have seen it. Hole the size of your fist on the exit side of his chest.
Now did I mention that this friend of mine was not only asthmatic but he is allergic to all kinds of animal hair and fur. And we were hunting in my 78 Jimmy(this is a few years back). So as not to have too much loose hair flying around in the vehicle, we decide to leave the animal full and run him over to one of the farmers we knew in the area and hang him there. Deers too big forme to load on the roof by myself, so loaded it up in the back. There we are in twenty below weather, driving down the road with all of our windows down and the heater on full (heater really doesn't do much when you have your windows down).
Everything ended well. That buck scored 176 typical. Great deer, great time.