James Edwards knows what it's like to be tased.
The bowhunter from Rocky Mount, Virginia, thought he was immune to buck fever, but he suffered its effects twice on Oct. 27, 2014.
James knew an enormous buck was roaming the 150-acre farm he hunts in Union County, Ohio. He'd seen it the previous week, both in the flesh and on two trail camera photographs.
He nicknamed the buck Jebediah - JEB for short, a play off "James Edward Buck."
When the necessary south wind arrived four days before Halloween, James drove the seven hours, checked into a local motel, and headed straight for his food plot stand.
"About 5 p.m., I heard a buck chasing a doe in the nearby undergrowth. It was chasing her directly toward the plot, and soon she emerged," James told Ed Waite, who measured JEB and wrote the story for Rack magazine. "I froze as she raised her head and looked straight at me.
"As old does often do, even without my moving, she saw me," he added. "She didn't spook terribly bad and didn't bolt. She just quickly moved across the plot and into the cover."
JEB arrived seconds later, but he never slowed.
The big buck returned to bother more does about 6:15, and then chased one in and out of an adjacent thicket. When he paused to work a scrape 35 yards from James, the gobsmacked hunter was too shaky to try a shot.
The same thing happened when JEB made another pass and stopped at a second scrape. James was vibrating.
But when the buck made a third pass and paused at yet another scrape, James suppressed his anxiety and finally loosed an arrow.
Before he stood over it, James thought the buck's rack would score in the 180s. But that was before he realized it carries an extra beam.
The 19-pointer's BTR composite score is 210 6/8 inches.