This story, “13…Unlucky?” appeared in the October 1949 issue of Outdoor Life. Would you go 180 miles away to hunt deer — if you had them in your own backyard? Probably not, unless you had buck fever.
It’s a phrase often repeated amongst deer hunters who aren’t seeing any bucks—they’ve “gone nocturnal.” And it’s usually about this time in the fall—mid-October—when we start hearing it. The big guys ...