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Author Topic: Bucks make me stupid  (Read 814 times)

Offline Allen Mims

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Bucks make me stupid
« on: November 05, 2015, 10:53:00 PM »
:banghead:  
I have hunted from a very young age with stick and string. My father the greatest bow hunter I have ever known taught me how to hunt and take game successful, but just this week a nice 8 point came within 10 yards of me face on. It is like I forgot everything I was ever taught. I tried to draw on him he saw me and bolted. If I had just waited for him to feed by me he wouldn't have saw me and it would have been a perfect quartering away shot. Bucks make me stupid!

Offline Jerry Jeffer

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2015, 10:58:00 PM »
Been There  :knothead:
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Offline bowberry

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2015, 11:32:00 PM »
ain't it great  :smileystooges:
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Offline Ouchigan72

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2015, 11:33:00 PM »
Been there....dropped my bow arm 2 years ago on a nice 8 point just to watch the arrow drop way under....know better than to do that...it happens

Offline old_goat2

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2015, 01:30:00 AM »
Me too and it doesn't matter how small they are! I don't get it! I don't even care what I shoot, doe, buck I don't care, but I am stupid when antlers are in the equation!
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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2015, 08:22:00 AM »
Bucks have made many a hunter stupid!!!!!!

Better luck next time out!

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Offline ranger 3

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2015, 08:59:00 AM »
I once had the biggest buck coming in and I had to lean out only to hit a big tree that I didn't see   :knothead:  It happens.
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Offline Sam McMichael

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2015, 10:33:00 AM »
I'm not so sure they make us stupid. I think they just bring out and emphasize some of our normal characteristics. But it sure happens a lot. I would like to say I'm immune to this, but they bamboozle me, too.
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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2015, 04:31:00 PM »
This club has more members than you can count!
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Offline highlow

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2015, 05:52:00 PM »
Amen brother.   :biglaugh:
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Offline JEFF B

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2015, 05:58:00 PM »
i will second that   :thumbsup:
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other times i let her sleep"

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Offline yeager

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2015, 08:49:00 PM »
You must be in the RUT....heard bucks get STUPID at this time, even though I have yet to ever see one in this state of mind. I always seem to see the Einstein ones!
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Offline Allen Mims

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2015, 08:46:00 PM »
And the hits here in GA just keep on coming it's hot hot hot and has began to rain constantly this week, but maybe it will get better next week and my luck will turn around.

Offline joe ashton

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2015, 09:29:00 PM »
I've shot dozens of deer.... but one little buck a few years ago fried my central nerve system..  I was shacking so bad I had the leaves on the tree I was in shacking..  That never happened before or since.
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Offline Biathlonman

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2015, 09:41:00 PM »
Had it happen to me this week.  Took a shot as a buck tried to evacuate my immediate area.  I have no idea why I let loose of that arrow.  Caused me a lot of heartache and many hours of lost sleep.

Offline **DONOTDELETE**

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2015, 10:05:00 PM »
The old timers used to call it "Buck Fever" most guys get over it with experience, but i've seen guys that never did get over it.... perfect archers scoring seriously high scores on 3D ranges, and they turn to jelly every time when they get close to a game animal.... its kinda amusing to me.

For some reason i don't start shaking until AFTER i drop the string.... THEN i get the adrenaline over load.

Offline H1tman7

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2015, 10:50:00 PM »
I'm there!  Had a Kansas Monster slip in to 7 yds on my backside before I realized he was there. Went to draw and CLCICK!   Clicker string some how had wrapped around the bow string.     :knothead:

Been shooting all summer and not had a problem with that, but still such an easy thing to check.
 
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Offline Jmatt1957

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2015, 09:15:00 AM »
I with Kirk, Im ok till after the shot then come completely unglued.. LOL  My great uncle got the shakes so bad once, that arrows shook out of his bow quiver.

Offline dirtguy

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2015, 09:29:00 AM »
I'm a card carrying member of that club.

Offline Cyclic-Rivers

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Re: Bucks make me stupid
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2015, 05:48:00 PM »
They dont need to be bucks for me to do something stupid and mess up.  In fact, I seem to do best when they come in fast and I have little time to think.
Relax,

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