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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2013 20:30:54 GMT -5
One should wait until the deer gets away from the tree a ways. It's not a high percentage shot. You aren't likely to get both lungs. I learned my lesson the hard way.
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Post by antiwheeze on Sept 20, 2013 20:35:37 GMT -5
15 feet straight down
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 20, 2013 20:47:01 GMT -5
One should wait until the deer gets away from the tree a ways. It's not a high percentage shot. You aren't likely to get both lungs. I learned my lesson the hard way. ^^^^ THIS I got lucky on my PA buck and hit the spine... The fastest way to a dead deer is take out BOTH lungs.. |
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Post by 36fan on Sept 20, 2013 22:01:35 GMT -5
I read somewhere that you can even shoot an arrow through that screen, but I'm not thinking that I'll do it. You can supposedly shoot through the mesh if you are using fixed blade broadheads - don't try it with mechanical broadheads. |
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Post by schall53 on Sept 21, 2013 9:34:24 GMT -5
Jon, the best bet is to take the shot before they get that close or let them move back out a little. With the straight down shot the vitals are limited in either a small spine, the heart, or one lung. Also the way the ribs lay at that angle the arrow could deflect and not even enter the body cavity. The quickest kill shot is a double lung hit and that can't be done with a straight down shot.
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Post by windingwinds on Sept 21, 2013 10:10:22 GMT -5
About 10 yards, my first deer, with my husband's 12ga. Talk about nerve wrecking. She came in a lot faster than I was expecting.
I think my favorite close up to a deer time though was the day I was sitting in my tree stand before last year's season in July and a doe with her fawn walked right under my stand. I am hoping that happens during this season.
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Post by schoolmaster on Sept 21, 2013 10:11:20 GMT -5
Shot a doe in standing corn 2 corn rows from me. 12 ga. Brenneke slug Just stuck the gun out like a pistol and blew her over. The slug hole was smoking as she lay there. Maybe 3 feet from the muzzle.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Sept 21, 2013 13:21:01 GMT -5
Shot a doe in standing corn 2 corn rows from me. 12 ga. Brenneke slug Just stuck the gun out like a pistol and blew her over. The slug hole was smoking as she lay there. Maybe 3 feet from the muzzle. That's a cool story. |
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Post by forrest1985 on Sept 21, 2013 14:58:00 GMT -5
Straight down with my bow at less then two yards from my ladder and with gun several about 10 yards
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Post by steve46511 on Sept 21, 2013 21:41:24 GMT -5
I can't say for sure how many but.....around 10? I've shot less than a yard from the tree I was in (when I used stands years back) both gun and bow. (A REAL PIA with a recurve or longbow now, let me tell ya!) and I sat around 12 feet up then, so pretty close.
CLOSEST one is a no brainer. Scared the bejesus outa me too!
A storm was coming in and the farmer was picking corn in the field next to the woods.
This doe came roaring out of the corn in front of the picker running towards me as it started to rain (and had been thundering). She was picking them up and putting them down right smart, angling towards me.
I was sitting on a stump with my longbow and there was 4-5 larger trees on one side of me and she was going to come around the far side of them in short order and "should have been" about 8-10 yards away going by me.
What I DIDN'T know was that instead of running BY those trees she was going to run AROUND them.
When she disappeared behind the first tree I hit my anchor knowing she would pop out in about 2 seconds and that she did, RUNNING RIGHT AT ME.
I don't know exactly how close she was when I shot but the wind was coming from her to me and she slammed to a stop when she saw me and I let er rip. The arrow never had time to get completely out of paradox before hitting her and penetration wasn't too great, but enough.
She was also close enough that I was picking deer hair from the shot off my face and chest where the wind blew it on me.......so yeah. CLOSE! LOL.
I'd rather not do that one again, TYVM. I think I shot in self defense more than anything right at that moment!
Exciting to hunt on the ground, and it's my preference but that is one of 6 times I've about got run over. The guys who came in to my butcher shop used to tease me that the deer were just trying to get revenge for the number of their relatives I had ground up! :-)
I've got that photo around somewhere. If I recall I only got about a half arrow of penetration. There WASN'T a period of time where I "watched the arrow fly".......I let go and it was in the deer. I didn't measure it but estimating 3-5 feet is about as close as I can come. My hands were shaking so hard later tracking her the 40 yards or so she went with a light (after I could stand up normally and had help) that the flashlight beam looked more like a strobe light than a beam of light.
EDIT.....Nope, I didn't find her that night. It was the next morning when we went back only to find her about 10 yards from where I stopped the night before. I was worried too. That storm SMACKED DOWN while I was looking that night.
Gimme about 15-18 yards for a "normal" shot with a bow and I'm ok..........Closer than that my arrows get nervous.
God Bless :-)
PS...... Yep a video would be funny NOW, LOL!
Tell ya what. One more "minor" fact will tell you how RATTLED I was.
After a short search in the storm for the deer, I headed back to the truck some 400 yards away.
I was IN the truck before I realized I laid my longbow down "somewhere" in the woods while looking and while I've loved all my bows, my longbows and certain recurves had more "value" to me than dollars spent.
I took another bow and went out the next morning and hunted till the sun was up good and (WHEW!)
I found it laying beside a tree about halfway to the deer. I must have (no clue really) laid it down while on my hands and knees trying to see blood on the trail.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2013 22:27:03 GMT -5
That's a great story, Steve!  |
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Sept 21, 2013 23:15:45 GMT -5
She was also close enough that I was picking deer hair from the shot off my face and chest where the wind blew it on me.......so yeah. CLOSE! LOL. I'd rather not do that one again, TYVM. I think I shot in self defense more than anything right at that moment!
Oh Steve, that is a great story! I'm new to hunting, but if I hunt for another 50 years I don't think I hear of anyone else shooting a deer in self defense. That is so good. Oh, that would have been a good video. However, my mind got a good visual with your details.
Thanks!
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Post by parson on Sept 22, 2013 6:06:32 GMT -5
Like a few others, straight down. It was my first bow deer. Shot wasn't good, hit it in the hip, but got an artery.
Closest with a firearm was less than 10 yards.
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Post by duff on Sept 22, 2013 15:51:27 GMT -5
3 yrds w bow while sitting in a rasberry patch. 1st deer ever. Gun probably 10 yrds
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Sept 23, 2013 5:25:38 GMT -5
I've shot a good number of mature bucks & does with bow & gun straight down from my tree stands right between the shoulder blades. One of the many reasons that I like stand hunting anywhere from 20' to 40' up depending on the terrain, prevailing winds, & tree limb cover. You gotta practice this shot quite a bit since the steep angle is difficult & deceiving with a bow.
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Sept 23, 2013 6:14:49 GMT -5
7 yards! My first deer harvest with a bow! I always thought it would be a 30 yard shot and it would run for 500 yards! LOL! Turns out I was wrong! 7 yards, he ran about 10 yards and stood there looking around like "What the heck was that?" He started to wobble, ran five more yards and fell on the path I cut to get to my stand. Never had that type of luck since!
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Post by scrub-buster on Sept 23, 2013 6:36:55 GMT -5
Closest gun kill was straight down on a tiny buck. I dropped it with a neck shot and then went and got my little boy to "find it for me". He slowly walked up and froze as he saw it laying there. When he walked up to it he looked at me and said "that's a little one". It had a about an inch long nub on one side and a 2.5" long spike on the other with a tiny brow point. I made a keychain from the two point side of the rack. That was 10 years ago and its still in my pocket.
Closest bow kill was a small buck named George. He didn't seem to have a fear of humans. You couldn't hardly scare him away. We watched him the first year as a little button buck. The next fall he was a yearling with a little 5 point rack. I didn't want to kill him but my empty freezer finally tempted me enough to shoot him at less than five yards.
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Post by omegahunter on Sept 23, 2013 6:53:18 GMT -5
One 4 yard and one 5 yard shot with a bow from a treestand. Same stand over the last two years.
A 9 yard shot with a muzzleloader while I was on the ground.
30 yard shot with a rifle.
70 yard shot with a shotgun (my one and only deer shot with a shotgun). |
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Post by bigbuckd on Sept 23, 2013 13:10:20 GMT -5
10 yards for Archery - Climber
15 yards for Shotgun - Treestand
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Post by boonechaser on Sept 23, 2013 14:02:30 GMT -5
I've taken just about every deer i've shot with bow inside 25 yds. The closest wood be directly underneath me. Last yr's buck was 5 yd's.
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