soundwaves
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Whats you guys explanation of Buck fever ? explane it in your own ways
Get excited. Don't focus. Don't do the basics, focus on a specific spot on your intended target, breath correct, squeeze trigger, etc. To me it's just plain a colaspse of your basic shooting skills do to excitement. As a matter of fact I've seen a couple situations where they just cycled the ammo threw the rifle and never even fired, but they were convienced they fired.
I ran an outfitting business, pretty sure if a I wrote much on this it would crash the server.
My personal story is I shot a really big whitey with a bow at 60 yds. I almost never hunted out of tree stands because we have no trees. Well I was in a treestand and just walked smooth off the platform to watch where he was going. Luckily I had on a harness lol.
It's just the result of an adrenaline rush. Heart rate, breathing accelerated, jittery hands, fingers, momentary inability to think clearly and focus on the tasks at hand.Whats you guys explanation of Buck fever ? explane it in your own ways
It's just the result of an adrenaline rush. Heart rate, breathing accelerated, jittery hands, fingers, momentary inability to think clearly and focus on the tasks at hand.
Experience and practice give you the skills to deal with it but it never really goes away.
If I ever lose that rush, I'll probably give up hunting.
I have a mental checklist that I run down to help calm myself when I feel it getting out of hand something taught to me by others many moons ago.
It starts with trying to focus solely on the point of impact, calculating corrections getting a sense of the wind etc and applying them and then reminding myself to breathe, calm down, and squeeze it off when the time comes.
Try hard to avoid looking at the head, tusks, horns, antlers etc after you decide it's a shooter and that helps dramatically.