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Post by ripleyshooter on Jan 5, 2008 11:49:33 GMT -5
It is kind've neat to hear of long distance shots but I like to get close to the game I am hunting. What is the shortest successful shot you have taken. I have shot a few deer with multiple weapons right below my stand but the closest shot I have taken was while I was sitting in a grown up fencerow. I shot a big doe with a muzzleloader that I honestly believe I could have reached out and touched her body with the end of my barrell. When I actually shot her I bet she was within 18 inches of the end of my gun.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 5, 2008 11:52:57 GMT -5
You've got me beat.
Closest was a PA whitetail straight down with a compound bow. Not a good shot to take and I got lucky and spined him.
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Post by danf on Jan 5, 2008 11:54:24 GMT -5
Well, the closest so far has been about 10-12 yards on November 8.  Could have taken a closer shot right before that, but the angle was so steep there was no way I could have drawn and not had the bow hitting my leg (didn't have time to stand up). The 10-12 yard shot was steep enough as it was! The closest I think I've been to a deer while still on the hoof was my first deer! After I shot her (fawn doe), she ran down the side of the ravine she was on, then back up my side and within 3 feet of me! Dad still to this day laughs about the look on my face when I found him a few minutes later. ;D |
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Post by Ahawkeye on Jan 5, 2008 12:04:12 GMT -5
3 yards on the ground w/ a shot gun.
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Post by Harley on Jan 5, 2008 12:09:07 GMT -5
5 yards with a bow.
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Post by drs on Jan 5, 2008 12:55:14 GMT -5
Eight yards, near & downhill from my Ladder Stand, in Ky. Shot it with a Remington Model 788 in .30-30.
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Post by parson on Jan 5, 2008 13:16:05 GMT -5
Discounting the Dodge Dakota Doe.
The first year I had my Knight, which I had bought to be able to shoot longer ranges with, A big ol' doe walked in front of me at about 15 feet!
I don't think that I've taken a closer one, even with a bow.
parson
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Post by trophyhunter1 on Jan 5, 2008 13:25:00 GMT -5
on the ground with shotgun about 8 feet.
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Post by hornharvester on Jan 5, 2008 13:27:17 GMT -5
10-15 feet with a T/C Hawkins. I was standing behind a big old tree and the deer ran around and stopped right next to me. h.h.
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Post by huxbux on Jan 5, 2008 13:31:00 GMT -5
About 16 ft, directly beneath my stand with a 12 ga. deer slug. I would have waited for a better shot but it was a 140 class deer. Hit right between the shoulders, I don't believe he felt a thing.
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Post by duff on Jan 5, 2008 13:42:27 GMT -5
2-3 yards on the ground with a bow. First deer I ever killed. Kneeled into a rasberry briar right off a trail. Deer dang near ran me over!!!
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Post by antiwheeze on Jan 5, 2008 14:38:01 GMT -5
Straight down 10-12 feet. My first buck with a bow. I have since learned to back off the trail a bit. I think 20 yds is perfect for me with a bow.
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Post by Bowbo on Jan 5, 2008 14:59:26 GMT -5
Apprx 7-8 ft........... on the ground.......... with my bow!
A very unique racked 9 pointer out of Morgan/Monroe St. Forest, sitting in a blow down!
AWESOME HUNT!!
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Post by mrhank on Jan 5, 2008 19:25:19 GMT -5
About 12 yards with a bow and maybe 15 yards with a gun.
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Post by arsnider1 on Jan 5, 2008 20:23:58 GMT -5
5 yards with a gun I could have shot a doe right below me once but it was opening day of gun and I was waiting for a buck
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Post by dbd870 on Jan 6, 2008 6:51:14 GMT -5
I'd guess 20-25yds. The BB I got with the bow this season. I'd say 50-75yds. would catch the majority of deer I've taken.
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Post by RoadKill on Jan 6, 2008 7:13:00 GMT -5
Bow - about 3-4 feet; small buck. Pistol - just a few inches - small buck, dropped at the shot - his nose was between my feet.
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Post by Sasquatch on Jan 6, 2008 8:20:46 GMT -5
I shot a spike buck in 2001 at 20 feet. I was walking to a stand when he walked down the trail right toward me. He was dead straight on to me. On the ground at an unalarmed deer I felt ok with that shot, and I squeezed when he stopped to look at me. The arrow sank to the fletching, only stopping when the broadhead hit a rear leg bone after exiting the body cavity. The deer ran right past me at less than six feet, went 50 yards or so, stopping when it rammed a locust fence post, breaking it clean off.
Steve and I went back to look at the scene afterwords, and we were both shocked at how close it was. I was thinking it was farther, but we could see where I was standing, and the hair was there from the entrance and exit wounds.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Jan 7, 2008 11:08:03 GMT -5
The doe I shot with my bow this year was only about 3 ft away from my tree when I shot her.
With a gun probably about 10 yards or so.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Jan 7, 2008 13:00:14 GMT -5
20' straight down spine shot from a tree.
10' on the ground from a Honeysuckle thicket as the buck reared up on his hind legs to fetch a pear at an old overgrown & abanded homesite.
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Could have taken a closer shot right before that, but the angle was so steep there was no way I could have drawn and not had the bow hitting my leg (didn't have time to stand up). The 10-12 yard shot was steep enough as it was!
