Forum | Monster Ohio Buck!

Yep, they'd have found me still in the treestand with soiled britches after having a heart attack seeing that beast if I'd had a bow in my hands.

Was probably thirty and only hunting in my fourth year when I had one come in at ten yards to hit his scrape.  I was ground hunting back then, and buck fever hit me so bad I thought I was going to die right there with the bow at full draw.  I couldn't hold the bow steady, and the sight pin was going round and round like the main rotor of a helicopter.  I finally had to let off, and duck behind the tree until I quit shaking, and could breathe again.  I'd stopped counting points at fifteen.  That same condition hit me for the next four years until I began hunting from a treestand, then the malady evaporated like I'd never had it.  I don't count points, or look at mass any longer, I decide, shooter/non-shooter, and either draw, center, release, or sit back and watch the deer and learn something.

What a HOG~!~