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Post by astronankin on Oct 31, 2023 11:02:41 GMT -5
Does anyone else get buck fever every time a legal deer walks in front of you while hunting? That happens to me... Even the small bucks trigger it. I always plan before season to wait out for the big ones, then first time I see anything that even just looks bigger than I actually is or has an interesting rack I snap. Twice it happened because I wasn't feeling good and any buck was a good buck. This year it happened because I saw tall and tight racked tines heading my way. The slightly smaller 8 pt that had just gone by had me sort of in a slight buck fever mode, but I looked and only passed on him because he looked too similar to the buck I shot last year off that stand.
And yeah, even the does give me momentary buck fever still. I honestly get excited every time a deer walks by until I start killing deer! Bucks... Once I shoot one the fever lessens, but when I have a good one come past it happens but I can control it better with the knowledge that I have already shot a buck and therefore can't shoot.
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Post by tradarcher17 on Oct 31, 2023 11:53:40 GMT -5
I am the exact opposite, I am fine until after I shoot. With a gun it isn't bad, but with a bow it gets me.
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Post by bill9068 on Oct 31, 2023 12:02:51 GMT -5
Does anyone else get buck fever every time a legal deer walks in front of you while hunting? That happens to me... Even the small bucks trigger it. I always plan before season to wait out for the big ones, then first time I see anything that even just looks bigger than I actually is or has an interesting rack I snap. Twice it happened because I wasn't feeling good and any buck was a good buck. This year it happened because I saw tall and tight racked tines heading my way. The slightly smaller 8 pt that had just gone by had me sort of in a slight buck fever mode, but I looked and only passed on him because he looked too similar to the buck I shot last year off that stand. And yeah, even the does give me momentary buck fever still. I honestly get excited every time a deer walks by until I start killing deer! Bucks... Once I shoot one the fever lessens, but when I have a good one come past it happens but I can control it better with the knowledge that I have already shot a buck and therefore can't shoot. Yes I do. Every time I see a deer my heart beats faster and I get excited, even if it’s a doe. I love it when that happens, when’s the excitement stops I’ll probably quit hunting. I’m 65. |
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Post by onebentarrow on Oct 31, 2023 13:23:47 GMT -5
Mentallty I do fairly good till after the shot but when I bow hunted my left leg always got the quivers and would make my body shake so u could not hold the sights on the deer. I learned to suport all my weight on my right leg and shoot so the left quivering did not effect me
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Post by greghopper on Oct 31, 2023 13:28:19 GMT -5
Does anyone else get buck fever every time a legal deer walks in front of you while hunting? That happens to me... Even the small bucks trigger it. I always plan before season to wait out for the big ones, then first time I see anything that even just looks bigger than I actually is or has an interesting rack I snap. Twice it happened because I wasn't feeling good and any buck was a good buck. This year it happened because I saw tall and tight racked tines heading my way. The slightly smaller 8 pt that had just gone by had me sort of in a slight buck fever mode, but I looked and only passed on him because he looked too similar to the buck I shot last year off that stand. And yeah, even the does give me momentary buck fever still. I honestly get excited every time a deer walks by until I start killing deer! Bucks... Once I shoot one the fever lessens, but when I have a good one come past it happens but I can control it better with the knowledge that I have already shot a buck and therefore can't shoot. Yes I do. Every time I see a deer my heart beats faster and I get excited, even if it’s a doe. I love it when that happens, when’s the excitement stops I’ll probably quit hunting. I’m 65. Absolutely…. |
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Post by deadeer on Oct 31, 2023 13:39:17 GMT -5
I agree that when the excitement is over, I'm done hunting/fishing.
My latest pride and joy is taking my boy hunting. I think I get more worked up than he does!
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Post by omegahunter on Oct 31, 2023 13:42:22 GMT -5
It has only happened to me on my better bucks and only after the shot. Couldn't get my muzzleloader reloaded once because I was shaking bad enough that there was no way to get the powder from my speedloader into my barrel.
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Post by welder on Oct 31, 2023 14:11:42 GMT -5
Does anyone else get buck fever every time a legal deer walks in front of you while hunting? That happens to me... Even the small bucks trigger it. I always plan before season to wait out for the big ones, then first time I see anything that even just looks bigger than I actually is or has an interesting rack I snap. Twice it happened because I wasn't feeling good and any buck was a good buck. This year it happened because I saw tall and tight racked tines heading my way. The slightly smaller 8 pt that had just gone by had me sort of in a slight buck fever mode, but I looked and only passed on him because he looked too similar to the buck I shot last year off that stand. And yeah, even the does give me momentary buck fever still. I honestly get excited every time a deer walks by until I start killing deer! Bucks... Once I shoot one the fever lessens, but when I have a good one come past it happens but I can control it better with the knowledge that I have already shot a buck and therefore can't shoot. Yes I do. Every time I see a deer my heart beats faster and I get excited, even if it’s a doe. I love it when that happens, when’s the excitement stops I’ll probably quit hunting. I’m 65. ^^^^ THIS!!! |
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Oct 31, 2023 19:17:55 GMT -5
Not near as much when I was young. I'm ususlly to busy figuring the right spot to shoot. On big bucks making sure it's a shooter. Now a 190 or bigger I sure will.
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Post by Ahawkeye on Oct 31, 2023 19:56:02 GMT -5
I was once at full draw and had to remind myself to breathe. I could hear my heart beating and said to myself "Wait a minute, he can't hear my heart beating! Calm down!" I chuckled at myself and took a good shot. That was a lesson in self control, now.... After the shot is a whole new ball game! Knees shaking, I feel like I have to puke, I have to hold on to the tree to sit down, man I love that feeling!
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Post by genesis273 on Oct 31, 2023 20:08:24 GMT -5
Only every time I even think about shooting a deer. Lol!
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Post by esshup on Nov 1, 2023 0:18:18 GMT -5
I get it but I can control it. I think the more deer you see, the more you can get used to them being there and it gets less and less.
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Post by duff on Nov 1, 2023 3:52:16 GMT -5
I get it but I can control it. I think the more deer you see, the more you can get used to them being there and it gets less and less. Pretty well the same for me. I get excited but usually won't physically show until after the shot. The adrenaline dump is not nearly like it was when I started, but still a good rush. |
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Nov 1, 2023 8:11:01 GMT -5
I get it but I can control it. I think the more deer you see, the more you can get used to them being there and it gets less and less. Pretty well the same for me. I get excited but usually won't physically show until after the shot. The adrenaline dump is not nearly like it was when I started, but still a good rush. That's right on target for me. More afterword's. I know on the 168 back in 2019 it was all afterword's, but it happened so fast I didn't have time to even think about it. I saw the rack, running full speed chasing a doe, I yelled 3-5 times I think as loud as I can as it passed through the opening. I got it to stop, the buck was so close the scope was all brown. I scanned up to find the top of the buck and then down to bottom, back up a little and let the bolt fly. It happened that fast. If that buck took one more step I had no shot. |
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Post by astronankin on Nov 1, 2023 8:14:01 GMT -5
I used to only get it after I shot a deer, then I'd start shaking really bad and couldn't stop talking about it and had to call everyone I knew who would get excited about it. I would also get the adrenaline pump of seeing a deer. Now it happens before I take a shot! And afterwards I usually feel calmer....
I see I'm not the only who can't control buck fever even after multiple years of hunting and putting deer in the freezer!
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Post by stevein on Nov 1, 2023 8:35:02 GMT -5
Memories...
My baby brother about 14 at the time, #2 brother and I were hunting Salamonie Res. When we all met back at the truck baby Dave excitedly told us about a buck encounter he had. Seems Dave came on a buck with 4 points on the left and 3 on the right but he did not have enough time to shoot. Bob just told him next time to count the points on the ground. If you have enough time to count to 7 you had plenty time to aim and shoot.
Thank you for the post it brought back some good memories.
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Post by esshup on Nov 1, 2023 9:40:00 GMT -5
I shot competition 3 position smallbore rifle in college. I'd always get nervous before a match, but was good enough towards the end of the first year that the coach would put me as the last shooter to "bat cleanup". One match I was extra nervous because we were behind the team we were shooting against and I couldn't get my nerves settled down. They had put their better shooters in the beginning of the line up and the guy that was on my relay wasn't as good as I was. I had a bigger than normal hole to dig out of. I shot like dog poop and he beat me. I remember him saying "I can't believe I shot better than he did".
Ever since that match I have been able to control the shakes. I get in a zone, sort of like tunnel vision. When it comes down to the time to squeeze the trigger the only thing that I see is the crosshairs, the particular spot on the deer that the bullet or arrow has to hit (or the bird if it's a clay bird) and what's behind it. Basically it's me, the gun, the target and the trigger.
After that one match, I could be at a match and if I was getting ready to squeeze the trigger, the coach could say something to me and I wouldn't hear him, only the range officer if it was a no shoot situation. Weird but it seems tunnel vision and selective hearing came together at that short window in time. I could hear the coach between shots. I haven't shot competition rifle in a long while, but back then I could also slow down my heart rate to have a longer pause between heartbeats. Right now when I'm relaxed, the heart rate is in the very low 60's and back then it was in the mid 50's when I was relaxed. I have no idea what it was during a match.
If I have a long window when I can see the deer (say as it's working it's way closer) after a bit I get shaky. But when the deer gets close enough that it's time to shoot I calm down. After the shot I get shaky again. If I have a short window between seeing the deer and shooting, I don't get shaky at all.
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Post by onebentarrow on Nov 1, 2023 13:16:58 GMT -5
I still get buck fever but I found with archery if I practiced a lot so all the movements were in mucelmemory and I did not have to think about them when the shot presented its self that all I had to do was concentrate on putting the sight on the spot it was not as bad or disabling. I still try to fall apart after the shot but I do ot care then. The most important part of a good shot is over.
Onebentarrow
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