Do you get nervous???
 

I hear of many people saying they get nervous when a shot oppurtunity presents itself.....????

I myself dont get nervous until the the situation is done past? I shake when the deer are out of my sight?? Is anybody else like this????

Whether it be a nice doe or buck in close range if I shoot or not I still get a little shaky ONCE they are out of my sight!!!???????????????

When the oppurtunity presents itself , I am as calm as a leaf in no wind... but I am a fool once the deer is out of the equation!??!??!??!?!?



(DISCLAIMER??) I can HONESTLY never remember getting nervous DURING a shot oppurtuntity????????????????( I have shot at 150"+ bucks before)???? Of which I COMPLETELY blew, bad bad moment[>:]:(!!!

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I get anxious. Just like before getting into a fight, i start to get anxious/ready for it to happen. Its like i want it soo bad and i cant wait. Its nerves yes... But not nerves b/c im unconfident. After i shoot, its the high, and like most, its uncontrollable. I can tame myself and be cool as a cucumber before (enuff to make good decisions) but afterwards no matter what i try, i cant control myself.

Derek

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No I don't, but I have yet had a 180 standing in front of me;)

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I feel the exact same way....I figured I would melt like butter when I finally got a crack at my buck, but I wasn't nervous, heartrate wasn't 5000, heck I wasn't even shaking......until the arrow was released. Happened with my Pronghorn and my doe as well.....nothing but calm and collective before and up through the shot. I can't be held reliable for anything I do after it goes down, I really do fall apart. My friend filming me thought I might fall out of the tree one morning after a rut crazed hunt and a deflected arrow on a buck.

BUT, like Rick said, I've never had a giant walk out in front of me either, yet.;)

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I used to get a bit "excited" when I had deer approaching me, especially if I knew that I was going to take a shot. Then something switched. Now, when a deer approaches that I'm going to shoot, I go into a sort of slow motion mode where I'm very calm and calculating. Once the shot is made the excitement builds up rapidly. Sometimes it is so great that I don't remember climbing down my tree. This lasts all the way through tracking the deer and examining it and during the walk back to my truck when going for help to get it out of the woods.

To some degree, I get this feeling of excitement for all game that I take. It seems to be a feeling that I live for! [:-]

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If everything takes place in a short span of time. No, I do not get nervous until afterwards theneverythinggoes crazy after the shot.

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I get really excited until i draw back, then i calm down. After I shoot my heart starts pumping and my legs begin to shake! My dad told me the day you dont get excited or start shakin is the day you should quit hunting.

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Same here from me I am as calm as a cucumber until the shot then I fall apart!! It is just motion up until the shot and that is why I believe you need to practice so much. It is kinda like a dreamyou know what is going on but it is all just the things you do in practice that take over.. Being in law enforcement it is the same way when sh!t hits the fan it is the training that fall back on. Walt

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IMO, each person will be different. Those who have an extreme amount of adrenaline released once they know a "shooter" buck is coming in, these people may feel that rush before they shoot...others who have a slower release of adrenaline will not feel the rush until after a certain amount of time is passed....and/or they may not get their rush of adrenaline until after they release their arrow.....

i for one get the adrenaline rush as soon as i see a buck ( i am not a trophy hunter).... god I love that
feeling:D

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well, if the buckwits and gives me minutes b4 he gets in range and he islike rubbing trees and grunting, my knees get to knockin a lil bit lol , but if its "see buck, shoot buck"im not that bad till after the shot

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I never got excited before the shot. Even way back when I was new. After the shot, or after a closeencounter with no shot, I would shake like crazy.
Now, I don't really shake much after the shot either. Especially a doe, I'm excited, don't get me wrong, but I amin full control. A big buck depends on the situation. If I see it fall I'll get a little shakey/anxious. This past yearthe thought of placingbad shot on him erased any and all"good" excitement...Until he went down and I was happy.

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I am pretty much the same. I am very under control before the shot, and wreck after the shot. That is the feeling after the shot is what I live for. It is the reason why I am getting ready to leave the house and go shed hunting when it is 9 degrees outside today. I have always said that if that feeling ever goes away, then it is time for me to find a new passion.

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As soon as I decide that I'm going to shoot at a deer my heart starts beating faster and faster. I sometimes even start to breath hard as if I was just running or something. I think I need to work on calming myself down before I have a heart attack or something.

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I still get excited before the shot. I tell myself "it's just a deer" regardless of the species. It is my way of calming my nerves. It seems to work. I am completely calm during and after the shot. I did start crying afterI arrowed my African lion...tears of happiness.

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I'm a wreck after the shot most times. Before I'm to focused...butI do get anxious and excited. I got that way weither its a young doe or button buck I'm not going to shoot or a 150" buck I'm hoping to shoot....Thats one huge reason I hunt...


The worst I ever got was was when I took a kid from church hunting. We were hoping for his fist buck (he'd shot a doe before) we had a half rack buck at 30 yards (shotgun hunting) he froze up on me and never took the shot. I was so excited that my leg was shaking.

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if it is a doe, i could really care less, but i have never shot a buck before with my bow, so i really don't know how i would react, but i never really shake with does even when they are out of sight.

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Nervousness? NERVOUSNESS?! We don't need no stinking nervousness!

Who's nervous? I'm not nervous? WHO said I was NERVOUS!?

There is no room for nervousness when the moment of truth has arrived... [8D]



















































I don't know. That moment has not arrived yet for me. ;)

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I used to get exicted before the shot. I missed a couple because of it. I learned how to calm my nerves until after the shot. This years buck was on video and there is 1.5 minutes of nothing after the shot and I thought I turned the camera off rightafter the shot. The rush is what it's all about.

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My nerves have calmed a lot over the years. I am usually calm and slow through the shot. And lately I am pretty calm after the shot as I know I still have work to do especially if I did not see the deer expire within sight. I used to get very excited and nervous just seeing deer, I couldn't control it.

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You bet!! To be honest though I'm much worse after the shot has been taken. My biggest bear I was pretty nervous (knees shaking In my stand when I shot him). Climbing down the tree and the walk out was 100 times worse though. I must of dry heaved 40 times on the way out. The excitement hit me big time knowing that I was pretty sure he was dead. It was my most exciting hunt ever!!!!

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Not really... I would say excited for the moment of truth but very calm like a big cat!

I just kill the animal and then take a phone photo while in the field, and then piss (in a good way) all my friends off by sending it to them.
They have come to joke about every time they get a message from me "it must be another deer".

I guess the last handful of years I've been luckier ;) than them!
I tell them lazy bastards to get out to scout more often and they too can be luckier.:)

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Well its interesting to hear that alot of people can keep it together!!

I guess like others have said it is from practicing alot, and getting everything down to a rhythm? We are too wooried about making everything go right(which has'nt happened for me too much lately) to take the time to get nervous!!

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The only time I have been nervous is when I took an Asain Water Buff.

He was only 10 yards away, if he had of winded me not only would the game be over but so would have my life.

It's amazing what a 2k lb wild animal can do to ones nerves;)

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Im bonkers in the tree most of the time, until just before I shoot, all of a sudden I turn Ice cold and shoot , and then Im excited again, but focused on the deer after the shot, listening and watching..

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I get really nervous,shaking etc. I think I've even been busted because of it. I calm down a little as I draw back but I've actually drawn down cuz I couldn't get steady. In years past I've wounded deer because of it. I wish i could get it under control.

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I don't know why, or if this evenmakes any sense at all, but when it's real cold out I seem to get more on edge when a deer is approaching to within range. I can't explain it.

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I am good until after the shot , then I tend to fall apart my one legstarts to shake out of control . I guess that is why I love it so much

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A couple have said they have never had the oppurtunity on a large buck so they dont know what nervous is. I thought the same thing until it happened. When ive seen/shot at the larger bucks the rack size really hasnt had an effect on me. It makes me more determined to get it right, but it is that drive that seems to make me do the right thing. Ive had a few in range oppurtunities on large bucks, and i have only made a bad decision on one. I had a 150-160" deer that we had been filming all summer before season and i rattled him in. He ran right in to me, and i drew and he stopped directly under me. He then looked up at me, and stomped his feet like he was gonna jolt so i shot. My limb hit the stand, and my arrow hit limbs under me. The result was luckily a cleanly missed deer, but a lesson learned. It seems to me like i will consciously make more passive decisions on bucks, b/c of the fear of wounding one. I know it sounds kind of biased to not care as much about does, but it is the truth. By no means am i out flinging arrows and wounding deer, so dont mistake me there... I just would rather have the monster buck walk away and live to fight another day than to make a poor shot on him. I guess thats kind of an ethics thing really.

Derek

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Well yes I get nervous but I have not has near as many shooting opportunities as others I guess. First doe I shot I was ground hunting with my neighbor's xbow he let me borrow once I learned how to shoot it and such over the summer. Shot her at roughly 5 yards double lung perfect shot and the expendables he had on the arrows did some massive damage and she fell in the cut corn field. I was nervous but it was my second year hunting first time bowhunting but it seems I am able to control my nerves right at the shot. Second deer I shot with the bow was with my compound 2 years later. She came in from 100 yards away and came in right under my stand and stared at me which at that point I was more nervous than all get out because that was a first for me then she proceeded out to offer me a 15 yard shot and I calmed down while she was walking out. Released and i was solid as a rock no shaking. After the shot I start shaking really bad somehow I managed to not fall out of the stand then I saw her crash into the corn field and all noise stops I know she is down and I flip out not sure how I made it down from the stand with all the shaking. Well I haven't really had the chance the past two years. Usually I can calm down right at the shot but can't quit shaking right after the shot especially when I see them fall and the noise stops.

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I start to get nervous at first then I calm down, zone out and make the shot. After its all over, I snap back to reality and fall apart.[8D]

This is only on nice buck's, does and 120 (or less) classbuck's can walk around me all day and I fill nothing.:(

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The bigger they are, the calmer I get. Just like in sports, I can just concentrate on executing whatever needs to be done and blocking everything out. Now, after the arrow hits is a whole different story.

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I'm the same way as you hardwoods. I get in the zone as the deer is moving to me and its after the shot that I'm shaking like a leaf and my heart is pounding out of my chest.

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i wish i was like all you guys. as soon as i see a deer (a buck or doe) i start getting adrenaline and heart going crazy and get real nervous. and after the fact i get more nervous.

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I tell myself something kind of weird... I tell myself that the deer isa dog. Some how that calms me down (And NO I'd never shoot a dog)! I said it was weird but it works forme!

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When you see something you wanna shoot just put it in Kill Mode.

Works for me!;)

Dan

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I get nervous, and the day i don't is the day i quit hunting.

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I generally chit my pants...

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Why's that?

You think you have get nervous to enjoy Bowhunting?;)

Dan

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i love the adrenaline rush. it isnt really nervous foresay its just my heart going crazy and adrenaline. i rememeber my first year hunting if i heard a squirrel in a tree i thought it was a deer and id go crazy:D

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When i first see any deer the adrenaline deffinately gets pumping. But i soon calm down and i cant really say i get nervous but i do get excited. But after i release the arrow i just fall apart, i love that feeling.