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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Ranger B on September 30, 2010, 08:56:04 pm

Title: Buck fever....
Post by: Ranger B on September 30, 2010, 08:56:04 pm

Man alive I'm sittin' here a'crawling outa my skin pettin' my bow and sharpening my skinnin' knife. John Cougar is wailing some bluesy song from the past in the background and all I can think of is the shot that I hope is to be. It's Friday's eve! A classmate offered his land to hunt on and I'm heading out there after class tomorrow to pick a tree and spend the night. Saturday begins the season - a predatory change of thought - a transformation of man to his most basic form - a hunter. It's deer season!!!!!! From now until January I will eat, sleep, drink and dream of the whitetail. A video plays in the background - Denny Sturgis arrows a big buck and my thoughts drift to the stand. From whence will the wind blow? Will I see a big buck? Doe? How long can I sit before a break? It's deer season brothers of the barebow - a time of year that changes our instincts, our senses -- smell, sound, taste, feel -- the door bell just rang. The mailman! My package carefully wrapped with a tape that says, "3Riversarchery." Oh, baby yes, they made it: 6 x 125 grain Magnus broadheads. Will one get bloody this weekend? Will one bring a big buck down? So many questions to be answered. Is sleep possible? It's deer season brothers........and I gotta bad case a'buck fever!

Title: Re: Buck fever....
Post by: FlintWalker on September 30, 2010, 09:06:36 pm

Jimmy, if any man alive can get it done...I know you can!  Good luck

Title: Re: Buck fever....
Post by: mullet on September 30, 2010, 09:24:34 pm

 I hope you do it, Brother, good luck.

Title: Re: Buck fever....
Post by: Hillbilly on September 30, 2010, 10:59:42 pm

Good luck, Jimmy!

Title: Re: Buck fever....
Post by: Thwackaddict on October 01, 2010, 01:22:01 am

Good luck Jimmy,let the air outta one for me!!I've went thru my pack and repacked time after time and keep goin over my bow and arrows!!!!I got it too!!Saturday will not get here quick enough!!

Title: Re: Buck fever....
Post by: Pappy on October 01, 2010, 06:05:45 am

Good luck Jimmy.shoot straight. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Buck fever....
Post by: GregB on October 01, 2010, 08:29:29 am

Jimmy, I've always known your "transformation of man to his basic form - a hunter" to be completed due to a skill honed through years of experience in the deer woods. Best of luck to you...although you make your own luck!

Title: Re: Buck fever....
Post by: Parnell on October 01, 2010, 09:42:14 am

Good luck, Jimmy!

Title: Re: Buck fever....
Post by: Cacatch on October 01, 2010, 09:49:48 am

Well put Jimmy and I know exactly how you feel. I couldn't have said it any better. This is my first year of seriously going out for the whitetail and I've been dyring to do it since July. Good luck and remember to breathe!

CP

Title: Re: Buck fever....
Post by: GregB on October 01, 2010, 11:58:16 am

Jimmy, enjoyed this hunt with you. Great view off that river bluff!

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Title: Re: Buck fever....
Post by: Ranger B on October 03, 2010, 12:25:12 am

Great times GregB. I wish I was hunting there this season.  The day didn't turn out quite like I had hoped but still a good opener.  See Opening Day thread.