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<blockquote data-quote="257WTBY" data-source="post: 2325935" data-attributes="member: 56428"><p>Not as crazy my daughter 12 at the time suffered from buck fever bad. We have early season and late here and I told her that I wasn't even going to carry a rifle early season. First day she missed two bucks a big 4X4 and a nice 5X5 both between 150-175 yards. After both shots she was shaking and could hardly talk her voice was even shaky haha. So for next 7 days we hunted she saw several more nice bucks and she threw up a few more air balls at them. Finally the last day of early season and it is raining side ways wind howling limbs crashing out of trees up on the mountain. We had seen exactly ZERO deer. I said lets get off the mountain and head down closer to the fields. We get back to the quad and start off the mountain and I was just letting the quad roll I hadn't started the engine. Its pretty steep for quite a ways down the mountain anyway we get towards the bottom I look to the left and it is the biggest whitetail buck I have ever seen in the woods literally laying with 2 does under a smaller pine tree 25 yards off the quad trail. My daughter sees it and is having a come apart behind me on the quad so I just roll past them and over the next little hill where we would be out of site. We get off I have her load her rifle. I told her the deer are rutting hard and he's not going to leave those does so if we don't spook them you will get a shot at him. She is physically shaking she has buck fever so bad. I told her just calm down deep slow breaths and relax so we stood there for a few minutes. I told her to walk back the quad trail and watch when the buck or does looked at her to stop and I was going to go up the mountain parallel to the deer and id move and get their attention. So basically I'm about 75 yards from deer and 25 from her. It was working I was getting excited this might work. I'm thinking less than 50 yard shot for her. Id move deer look at me Id stop she'd move and vise versa. So when she is about 40 yards from the does and the big buck they all stand up. She has her gun up resting off a tree (I can hear my heart pounding) she is looking thru her scope I see her turn off safety the buck whirls and into the thick brush he goes OMG we just let the biggest buck I've seen in 40 years get away. She says LOUDLY what do I do now daddy I said shoot a doe (she has youth either sex license) boom deer slams the ground I'm watching and its weird the deer is literally flipping and flopping around I watch till the doe isn't moving I told her to stay there so I walk to her and I wanted to show her what to do as she approached and what to look for (her first deer). She says to me "I did exactly what you said daddy I had the cross hairs right behind the front shoulder and I saw her fall in the scope" I said that's the way its supposed to be as we are arriving at the dead doe. I said right behind the shoulder huh? She hit the deer right under its ear.... 3 ft off because of her shaking at 40 yards haha I told her sometimes its better to be lucky than good.... </p><p></p><p>She was a great shot at targets as a youngin but man put a buck in front of her and she'd loose her ****... Thankfully 20+ years later and lots of deer she's calmed down and just hammers deer now but we still talk about that monster buck every year. I hunt that same mountain every year hoping to run into one of his off spring...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="257WTBY, post: 2325935, member: 56428"] Not as crazy my daughter 12 at the time suffered from buck fever bad. We have early season and late here and I told her that I wasn't even going to carry a rifle early season. First day she missed two bucks a big 4X4 and a nice 5X5 both between 150-175 yards. After both shots she was shaking and could hardly talk her voice was even shaky haha. So for next 7 days we hunted she saw several more nice bucks and she threw up a few more air balls at them. Finally the last day of early season and it is raining side ways wind howling limbs crashing out of trees up on the mountain. We had seen exactly ZERO deer. I said lets get off the mountain and head down closer to the fields. We get back to the quad and start off the mountain and I was just letting the quad roll I hadn't started the engine. Its pretty steep for quite a ways down the mountain anyway we get towards the bottom I look to the left and it is the biggest whitetail buck I have ever seen in the woods literally laying with 2 does under a smaller pine tree 25 yards off the quad trail. My daughter sees it and is having a come apart behind me on the quad so I just roll past them and over the next little hill where we would be out of site. We get off I have her load her rifle. I told her the deer are rutting hard and he's not going to leave those does so if we don't spook them you will get a shot at him. She is physically shaking she has buck fever so bad. I told her just calm down deep slow breaths and relax so we stood there for a few minutes. I told her to walk back the quad trail and watch when the buck or does looked at her to stop and I was going to go up the mountain parallel to the deer and id move and get their attention. So basically I'm about 75 yards from deer and 25 from her. It was working I was getting excited this might work. I'm thinking less than 50 yard shot for her. Id move deer look at me Id stop she'd move and vise versa. So when she is about 40 yards from the does and the big buck they all stand up. She has her gun up resting off a tree (I can hear my heart pounding) she is looking thru her scope I see her turn off safety the buck whirls and into the thick brush he goes OMG we just let the biggest buck I've seen in 40 years get away. She says LOUDLY what do I do now daddy I said shoot a doe (she has youth either sex license) boom deer slams the ground I'm watching and its weird the deer is literally flipping and flopping around I watch till the doe isn't moving I told her to stay there so I walk to her and I wanted to show her what to do as she approached and what to look for (her first deer). She says to me "I did exactly what you said daddy I had the cross hairs right behind the front shoulder and I saw her fall in the scope" I said that's the way its supposed to be as we are arriving at the dead doe. I said right behind the shoulder huh? She hit the deer right under its ear.... 3 ft off because of her shaking at 40 yards haha I told her sometimes its better to be lucky than good.... She was a great shot at targets as a youngin but man put a buck in front of her and she'd loose her ****... Thankfully 20+ years later and lots of deer she's calmed down and just hammers deer now but we still talk about that monster buck every year. I hunt that same mountain every year hoping to run into one of his off spring... [/QUOTE]
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