buck fever

He writes, “ … it’s not that I fear buck fever, it’s that I can’t seem to work up a decent feeling of enmity toward a deer.”

The hunter, who had remained calm up until then, got a delayed case of “buck fever” and even had to sit down when his knees began to shake.

The bullet struck within about six inches of where I was aiming, which showed that I was influenced by what is called “buck fever.”

Often during my life I had heard people speak of "buck fever."

I never saw but one place that I did not get the buck fever when deer hunting and that was in Trinity and Humboldt counties, California.