Keeping It Together at the Moment of Truth, with Duane Buckner
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Show Notes
SHOW NOTES
Scenario: A last-day opportunity on a shockingly big bull elk. With moments left of legal shooting light and every possible challenge aligned against you, can you hold it together and kill the bull?
Guest: Duane "Buck" Buckner. A veteran of vast and extreme experience, Buck has spent decades studying the human psyche and its response to dramatic stress—as well as how to function effectively through it.
- What happens inside your brain (at the moment of truth)
- Hormone dump
- Pre-programmed fight or flight responses
- Auditory exclusion
- Focused processing
- Tunnel vision
- Motor skills
- How to overcome the crippling effects
- Pre-event recognition of what happens mentally
- Observation and awareness
- Breathing
- Training
- Dangerous Game: Worse than combat?
- Parallels between combat and tracking wounded dangerous game
- Simplifying equipment to maximize success
- Red dots and recticles
WRAP: Understanding the wires that come loose inside your brain when you get buck fever helps you keep it together at the moment of truth.
Duane "Buck" Buckner on Instagram
Contact Buck via email: [email protected]
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