buck fever

I have an inkling of what buck fever was like.

Poor Mel was so sure she could squeeze off a round at a black hat, and when push came to shove she got buck fever.

Any beginner is apt to have "buck fever," and therefore no beginner should go at dangerous game.

In my case the overcoming of buck fever was the result of conscious effort and a deliberate determination to overcome it.

Eye-fever, Kilroy claimed, was a form of buck fever, and was probably the second most common cause of hunting accidents.

That thought had enabled him to fight off the buck fever that always came when you had a target in your sights.

Hell, I waited," he said, "and he took so long I thought he must have gotten buck fever.

They were big enough to give me the angler's version of buck fever.

She came to ground directly in front of a handsome stallion and his young rider, a Wheel swell caught up in buck fever.

At the sound of that voice, some of Thad's mental buck fever melted away.