FOURTH AND 40 BUCKS
 Bucks
At the End of the Season
Editor’s Note: Some people perform their best
under pressure. When the last day of deer season and
your last opportunity to hunt a trophy buck arrives,
you must have the same dedication, poise and firm belief
in your strategy as a star football player does in fourth
quarter to bag your buck of a lifetime.
 When
a quarterback faces a fourth down and 40 yards to go
for a touchdown in the last 8 seconds of the fourth
quarter, he must rely on his instincts and knowledge
and his ability to exhibit poise under pressure. When
calling the play in the huddle, he must focus on the
task at hand. Then when the ball snaps, even though
linebackers may blitz, linemen may charge, and his teammates
may weaken, he must have the singleness of purpose to
stay in the pocket, read the defense, make instant calculations
on time and distance, pick out his wide receiver running
on the fly pattern and launch the football just before
a blitzing  linebacker
hits him. If his dedication, knowledge, ability and
instincts mesh together, he’ll score the touchdown
and win the game.
You can’t run helter-skelter through the woods
praying to get lucky. You must set up your game plan
for that last day’s hunt. No matter what weather—rain,
sleet, snow, hail or a bluebird day—happens, you
can execute that hunt plan, remain poised, believe in
your own abilities and follow your instincts. Bagging
a trophy buck  everyone
has hunted and pursued the entire season equates in
personal bests with scoring the winning touchdown in
the Super Bowl during the last 8 seconds of the fourth
quarter. Below are the game plans of men who have accomplished
this feat. With time running out, they’ve executed
their plans on the last day of the season and taken
monster bucks. If you try these strategies, you too
may bag a fourth-and-40 buck.
TOMORROW: GRUNT AND RUN
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