Have heard several such stories over the years...

by Brian A, Thursday, July 10, 2014, 08:08 (3795 days ago) @ Rob Leahy

Including my own uncle, a WWII Marine vet, who was out deer hunting with my father when a nice buck walked in front of his stand, he pulled up his old Winchester 94 and proceeded to empty it, sure he had shot the deer. He called my dad to help him look for a blood trail and when standing where he fired from to get their bearings, my dad found all the unfired cartridges on the ground. He had apparently gotten such a case of 'Buck Fever', he had simply worked the action, never pulling the trigger, and did not even realize it.