Buck fever is something you can somewhat prepare for. I said somewhat but here’s a few ideas. For starters make sure you can shoot, you understand form and practice with ALL your gear on.
Now back to practicing. You need to practice with raised anxiety or under some stress.
You can easily start this by just making a tic tac toe board for instance. Take some electrical tape, put it on a 2-3 foot sheet of cardboard for the lines. . Play w your buddy n whoever wins team, country, dog, etc is better.
You’ll want to beat him and must pick an unmarked spot n still shoot. Baby steps.
I’m not saying to do this but as kids we’d reach over w an arrow feather n tickle the shooters ear to throw him off. We’d also shoot 3D n Try breaking the first shooters nock. The first shooter aimed for the nose tip on the target. If you miss, oh well maybe you’d hit rocks. Try throwing leaves or hay in front of the shooter, see if that don’t blow his game initially.
Point is find ways to bullet proof yourself . Strip archery would be a good one although if you don’t have a gf shooting w you it’s gonna be weird!
My buddy years back was a special forces guy. He went sleep deprived, hungry, than did a timed run after a week of this and had to lie prone in ice water n qualify. Talk about stress training.
Find ways to stress yourself and still make a shot. Here’s another. Always practice harder than anything you’ll ever encounter. Makes normal shots cake. Hope this gives you ideas