JagMagMan you know it is funny, the only time I ever got buck fever was on the biggest buck I ever killed, I was lucky and recognized the symptoms before I blew it! All I saw of him at first was this huge tall rack above the mountain Laurels, I got the shakes so bad it was not funny! []Luckily for me I realized I was shaking and talked myself down, I told myself to breath, the brush was really thick, I forced myself to pick out the only place I could get a clean shot through that I knew he would pass, three doe had just gone by the same way and he was HOT on their trail, he would take 15-20 steps and stop and smell the ground and then strut another 15-20 steps and smell again. I made myself wait until he put his head down to smell again and then pulled the gun up and aimed in the only open area and waited, he lifted his head and strutted another 15-20 steps, stopped dead square in the middle of the opening and dropped his head to smell again, I squeezed off two shots of double ought buck into the boiler room and he leaped about ten foot straight forward and dissappeared, I jumped out into this wide trail figuring if he was running it would be the only place I could get another shot.......nothing!!! []I am thinking " Man there is no way I missed, where is he?" . I heard this long drawn out kind of sigh.... from the direction I had shot, I pushed my way through the brush to where he had been when I shot, he was right where he had jumped when I shot, he never took another step after the jump, I thanked the Lord and thanked the buck!

Oh yea, where did I learn to control the fever? Well I had a freind who had it so bad that the first time he saw a deer hunting he fired both barrels of a double barrel into the ground in front of him, he swore he was aiming at the deer!!! My uncle had a talk with him and gave him the same advice I give to those who suffer the fever, I made a mental note of this talk even though up until that point I had never suffered the fever, I sure am glad I listened.[8D]