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As I walked to get the wind in my favour across maize stubble a little buck came charging out of the wood I wanted to get in to about 200yds down wind. He stopped abruptly on our wind and went back in pronto.
I wondered if a bigger bucket had pushed him out. Well long story short I found the bigger buck bedded down and at thirty yards had his head in my sights, then it happened, I got all silly about it and could I settle down? Could I boot!
Eventually I sorted myself out, took a breadth and started over to just observe him sniff us out as the wind swirled in the timber and he was gone, in a flash.
I laughed at first but then felt regret and couldn't believe I got so silly about it. I am, apart from frustrated, quite humbled in that I can still experience that level of excitement that I had many many years ago as a boy so not all bad I guess.....

Have you suffered from buck fever recently?
 
Smellydog said:
As I walked to get the wind in my favour across maize stubble a little buck came charging out of the wood I wanted to get in to about 200yds down wind. He stopped abruptly on our wind and went back in pronto.
I wondered if a bigger bucket had pushed him out. Well long story short I found the bigger buck bedded down and at thirty yards had his head in my sights, then it happened, I got all silly about it and could I settle down? Could I boot!
Eventually I sorted myself out, took a breadth and started over to just observe him sniff us out as the wind swirled in the timber and he was gone, in a flash.
I laughed at first but then felt regret and couldn't believe I got so silly about it. I am, apart from frustrated, quite humbled in that I can still experience that level of excitement that I had many many years ago as a boy so not all bad I guess.....

Have you suffered from buck fever recently?
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To be brutally honest I haven’t had buck fever for probably 10 years a sad as it sounds unfortunately years ago I trained myself to be an efficient deer killer and unfortunately curse of that is losing the excitement
 
Smellydog said:
As I walked to get the wind in my favour across maize stubble a little buck came charging out of the wood I wanted to get in to about 200yds down wind. He stopped abruptly on our wind and went back in pronto.
I wondered if a bigger bucket had pushed him out. Well long story short I found the bigger buck bedded down and at thirty yards had his head in my sights, then it happened, I got all silly about it and could I settle down? Could I boot!
Eventually I sorted myself out, took a breadth and started over to just observe him sniff us out as the wind swirled in the timber and he was gone, in a flash.
I laughed at first but then felt regret and couldn't believe I got so silly about it. I am, apart from frustrated, quite humbled in that I can still experience that level of excitement that I had many many years ago as a boy so not all bad I guess.....

Have you suffered from buck fever recently?
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I had it last in late winter, stood watching a buck waiting for it to stand. Felt my legs tremble after a few minutes haunches over with the rifle in my shoulder and cross hairs on the beast. Easy to solve, I brought my face from the stock and straightened up. Looked at the sky for a moment and flexed my legs. Then back to business.
 
Smellydog said:
As I walked to get the wind in my favour across maize stubble a little buck came charging out of the wood I wanted to get in to about 200yds down wind. He stopped abruptly on our wind and went back in pronto.
I wondered if a bigger bucket had pushed him out. Well long story short I found the bigger buck bedded down and at thirty yards had his head in my sights, then it happened, I got all silly about it and could I settle down? Could I boot!
Eventually I sorted myself out, took a breadth and started over to just observe him sniff us out as the wind swirled in the timber and he was gone, in a flash.
I laughed at first but then felt regret and couldn't believe I got so silly about it. I am, apart from frustrated, quite humbled in that I can still experience that level of excitement that I had many many years ago as a boy so not all bad I guess.....

Have you suffered from buck fever recently?
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I did the other day for a short period on a good sized fallow buck. Soon calmed down , but could not get a tidy shot and after 30 mins he melted into the undergrowth, hopefully get another chance in the future.
Probably a good thing to get once in a while, helps you getting up at 3am in the mornings.
 
WalkedUp said:
I had it last in late winter, stood watching a buck waiting for it to stand. Felt my legs tremble after a few minutes haunches over with the rifle in my shoulder and cross hairs on the beast. Easy to solve, I brought my face from the stock and straightened up. Looked at the sky for a moment and flexed my legs. Then back to business.
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I did sort myself out but then the wind swirled, sods law. If that had not happened this post would not exist!
 
Smellydog said:
As I walked to get the wind in my favour across maize stubble a little buck came charging out of the wood I wanted to get in to about 200yds down wind. He stopped abruptly on our wind and went back in pronto.
I wondered if a bigger bucket had pushed him out. Well long story short I found the bigger buck bedded down and at thirty yards had his head in my sights, then it happened, I got all silly about it and could I settle down? Could I boot!
Eventually I sorted myself out, took a breadth and started over to just observe him sniff us out as the wind swirled in the timber and he was gone, in a flash.
I laughed at first but then felt regret and couldn't believe I got so silly about it. I am, apart from frustrated, quite humbled in that I can still experience that level of excitement that I had many many years ago as a boy so not all bad I guess.....

Have you suffered from buck fever recently?
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I can feel the heart rate climbing but the years of diving with students or at the limit of my tec diving then you need to get a grip, after that is a different matter on the walk to find where it is laying (or not) lol
Muntjac make me jump when you get to them and the nerves make the legs kick lol
Getting busted is part of it that is why we go back...
Shoot the small one not the donkeys what say you Lee @Norfolk Deer Search
 
Never had buck fever for a lot of years but foxes always gets the heart racing.

I am now at the stage where Im not that bothered about deer just take them when the opportunity arises , gone are the days getting up at 1st light for them.

I will however get up at 1st light for geese or crows.
 
Nickb said:
Never had buck fever for a lot of years but foxes always gets the heart racing.

I am now at the stage where Im not that bothered about deer just take them when the opportunity arises , gone are the days getting up at 1st light for them.

I will however get up at 1st light for geese or crows.
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Bet your heart was racing when you off loaded your last profile identity 🤣
 
We shoot a lot of Fallow and I never get it. However after having shot many, many hundreds of Roe over the years, last season it happened to me. I was watching a Roebuck for a while in a field of wheat and put the scope on him waiting for him to cross the tramline, suddenly I started to tremble. I put the rifle down and lit my pipe. I watched again until he walked to the edge of the corn put down my pipe, rifle up and shot. No problem but I got the adrenaline shakes after the shot so partook of the devil's weed again until it wore off.
 
Dont shoot many deer so still get a flutter - but i have a serious excited wobble a month or two ago over a fox
I have shot lots over the years and tbh had got a bit clinical with them - bait wait - spot and shoot - it was simple
I managed to control good numbers and this resulted in a dry month or so - when the first one came after that dry spell i was all giddy and shakey - funny how it gets you
 
Tim.243 said:
I can feel the heart rate climbing but the years of diving with students or at the limit of my tec diving then you need to get a grip, after that is a different matter on the walk to find where it is laying (or not) lol
Muntjac make me jump when you get to them and the nerves make the legs kick lol
Getting busted is part of it that is why we go back...
Shoot the small one not the donkeys what say you Lee @Norfolk Deer Search
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🙏 amen wise words

red deer can keep on walking, fallow does can keep walking into the chiller and anything smaller apart from CWD can also form and orderly que 😂😂
 
I have never experienced it with deer. In fact, I would go so far as to say say that the moments in which I kill deer are some of the calmest moments of my life.
However, I always get the shakes with foxes and paper targets.
 
It's the waiting, knowing that there's a shot coming. I get it when stood on a peg. If a pheasant flies up unexpectedly, it isn't a problem, up goes the gun and down goes the bird (sometimes). But if you know there's one coming from far off, you faff about checking the safety, check your stance, wonder if you've got two barrels loaded, then mount the gun too soon, over-think the amount of lead needed, wonder if you should take it early or not, wonder if it's your bird or the neighbours, by which time you're a quivering wreck and it's time to go bang. And the bird sails on overhead blissfully ignorant of the mental turmoil it's created below.
 
Interesting all the posts about foxes, for me foxes are so quick you don’t get chance to think and there is no adrenaline. I’ve never had it on a game or clay shoot at all however I did use to miss long incoming birds. Spoke to my mate about it and his solution was not to close the gun until the bird is shootable, then you have to move quick to mount and swing in time and it becomes a more typical reaction shot.
 
Smellydog said:
As I walked to get the wind in my favour across maize stubble a little buck came charging out of the wood I wanted to get in to about 200yds down wind. He stopped abruptly on our wind and went back in pronto.
I wondered if a bigger bucket had pushed him out. Well long story short I found the bigger buck bedded down and at thirty yards had his head in my sights, then it happened, I got all silly about it and could I settle down? Could I boot!
Eventually I sorted myself out, took a breadth and started over to just observe him sniff us out as the wind swirled in the timber and he was gone, in a flash.
I laughed at first but then felt regret and couldn't believe I got so silly about it. I am, apart from frustrated, quite humbled in that I can still experience that level of excitement that I had many many years ago as a boy so not all bad I guess.....

Have you suffered from buck fever recently?
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The day it ceases to excite me is the day l chuck it in.

Luckily we’re on a forum with hundreds of perfect shooters, in whose laughter at our human fallibility we poor muppets can all share.

:stir:

maximus otter
 
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