Originally posted by kevykev56
My only answer to that is I must have ratonalized that it "could" be my son.
Again I have never felt anything like the adrenaline surge I had at that moment. I completly understand knowing your target before firing but in that moment when your emotinally charged I cannot say for positive I would have identifyied the target first.
After hunting deer for years I no longer get the rush when that buck pops out into gun or bow range. This feeling was much like the buck fever I felt with my first few deer, only MUCH more intense.
That surge can become addictive. It is usually more then adrenaline! Dopamine can also be within the mix. As well as some other body chemicals. Your body creates some powerfull chemicals under certain situations. If Dopamine was mixed in you probably felt no soreness or pain for as much as 3 days afterward and when it wears off a muscle or something can start bothering you and you can find yourself wondering why because you can't remember doing anything recently to cause it.
Police Officers can expierance it, military personal can expierance it, along with some other professions. It can be VERY dangerous to them and any people around/near them!
In Japan they eat raw Pacific Puffer fish (highly posionus) to get a similar surge.
Colors seem brighter, smells sharper, sense of touch more sensitive, etc. accompanied by a euphoric type feeling. The theroy being one is never so much alive as when one knows they are about to die.
Some people should NEVER take up sky diving because they will wait each time they exit the plane just a little longer before opening thier chute trying for that high.
Some people will drive cars or ride motorcycles in such a manner that they create that surge within themselves.
Fairly recent studies (within the last 20 years I believe) showed that some people that ran several miles every day had become addicted to thier own body chemicals. It shows up when for some reason they can't run. They appeared to go through heroin like withdrawls.
