Outdoors: Finally, Big Buck Without the Fever

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By Jesse Betteridge

-- I have been bowhunting the same area in Utah for 18 years. We have seen some great bucks over the years, and I have even had a few chances to take some big bucks. Actually, 20 or 30 chances are more than a few, but that's been my luck for the past 18 years.

I get an archery tag every year, and have been hunting with the same group of guys for the same length of time. Just so you know a little about me, I'm the hunter in the group that always seems to get so excited that I can't shoot straight, so I miss deer and elk all the time. The stories always sway from my buddies' success stories to how many deer I've missed. One season my buck fever was so bad that all eight of my arrows were dead on at trees and rocks, not the bucks.

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