RE: Buck Fever
 

Semi

there must be some laws/rules about Buck Fever isn't there?????

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You just had to go and challenge him and get him started ... didn't you.

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:D:DSomebody throw another log on the fire. HEY! Who moved the ice chest?

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OH YES I GET IT

I was 13 years old.We hunt with dogs at the family camp,the old men there do not beat the bush anymore.
I was sitting on the dog box in the back of dad's truck in the warm morning sun during a slow time and I fell asleep.
Dad walked down the dirt raod looking for sign as he always does and he walked a good ways out of sight.

I guess the rustleing in the woods woke me,I raised my head and low and behold standing a 20 yards was the biggest buck I had ever seen.
I was stupified,Started shaking,I pulled up gandpa's old Winchester model 12 shotgun and shot the trees 40 yards behind the deer (Picture the gun sitting on my lap being slowly raised and me pulling the trigger WAY before it got to my shoulder.
The next shots were a little better but were no threat to the buck and I guess he knew it as he stood there looking at me.
I emptied the gun having never hit the deer and watched him wave his flag at me and bid me goodmorning.
Dad came running up the raod and it took me several minutes to blurt out the word BUCK, he said I looked like I had seen a ghost.I guess in some ways I had.I showed him the tracks and the land clearing that I had done with the 12 guage and he had a great time with me after that.
Never saw that buck again but I can still see him in my mind.

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Semisane's Observations on Buck Fever:

1. If you've never had buck fever one of the following three apply. (1)you have never seen a deer when you had a gun in
your hand, (2) you probablyhave a tendency to lie, or (3) you should give up hunting as not exciting enough for you - take up skydiving.
2. Buck fever is curable. The cure is to stop hunting.
3. Buck fever is funny (in other people).
4. It is possible to have buck fever and still lead a successful and fulfilling life.
5.It is not advisable to tell your wife that buck fever is like having sex for the first time.
6. ????

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Another goodstory Saxman.

Maybe you need to write a new song."A Whole Lot of Shakin Going On" is already taken, but"White Flags In The Sunset" might work,or "Bang, Bang, He's Gone". :D

Come on all of you guys reading this stuff and not kicking in. I just know there are more good stories out there to give us some entertainment.Sitting around the fire and drinking the beer without kicking in a story is not fair.;)

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6. If your in the middle of a bathroom break, squatted over a logwith your pants around your ankles and miss a monster buck who sneaks up on you.. that's not buck fever. You were only chasing it off so you could finish your first project..

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Yes sir, I get nervous when I first see a deer coming into range.
I'm actually better off if the deer just pops up in ML range so instinct can take over & as you said--I do the tunnel vision thang where all I focus on is behind the shoulder.
When I'm in the woods, all my senses are on point (until no critters are movin) birds,squirrels-pesty,possum,coons even mice are the entertainment.
Non-hunters don't get it!!
Anyway, after sitting in a stand for ?????? then appears the only big game animal we have in So. Illinois--Mr. or Mrs. deer (yes I shoot mature does).
Your damn right I get excited & have been for 27 years now. You just got to learn how to control it your best.
You gotta love the game or you shouldn't be playin!!

;) Mark

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Right on zakjak. The first nice doe I see in November when I'm carrying my .54 flintlock is in for a world of hurt (I hope).

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Many moons ago in a Central Ontario hunt camp, all of the old guys decided to stay in camp in the late afternoon. Me being the young pup loaded up my 30-30 with 3, yes three shells. My motto then was, 1 shot 1 deer, 2 shots maybe a deer and 3 shots no deer. This theory has since been revised. lol

Well anyways, off I go by my lonesome. Back to place we called the old farm. It was distinguishable by a pile of rocks, nothing more, just a pile of rocks. Well I git to sitting and here comes this buck with a really nice rack. I eyeballed that rack as I let three shots fly. That danged deer kept on runnin and I was empty!!! I went to where I was shooting and saw no hair, no blood, nothin but tracks. I went back to camp for more bullets[:@]and some help in tracking as I was pretty green in that department. Well the fella's come out and I show them where I was and where the deer was when I shot. They found 3 very nicely trimmed branches about five feet up (about the height of the top end of antlers) and a set of 4 hoof tracks in a space of a teacup. So it was deduced that I shot high and slightly in front of the buck. Got some ribbing that night.

Lessons learned..... Don't look at horns while shootin and if it will take 7 shells, load 'em up.

The second deer I see a couple of day's later. It was a yearling doe. Same rifle (with a lot more bullets;):D) at about 70 yds broadside. I shoot and the deer does an end for end and buggers off. I'm thinking nothing good is going to come of this. I try to track and find nothing. The dogger comes through and I tell him and we both look around and still nothing. Well I'm sure I hit that deer and I start looking some more and lo and behold I find her!!!!! Wooooo hoooo my first deer. Now I've never dressed a deer before so I fire off a couple of shot's in hope that the dogger will come back and help me out. No luck there. So I did the best I could gutting andwalked out and got some help to drag her out.

I can remember every deer I've shot. We don't get to shoot a deer a day here or 10 a year. We see 1 while hunting you best have the hammer back and ready to rock and roll cause you may not see another. Make sure it's legal and get down to buisiness.

I still get a quick breath and a fast heartbeat, but I save the shakes for after. Mostly;):D