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Post by bowhunterjohn on Sept 25, 2013 7:18:22 GMT -5
With a bow I've shot em out of a tree at 4 yards, I was only 10 feet up. I've shot a lot at 5-10 yards, most are around 20 yards. Shot a doe at 47 yards once, but only because all the conditions were right.
hate to admit this, but two years ago while walking in I got to the corn and saw a BIG doe and 3 fawns in the path going to my Jeep. She saw me and started walking to me, I kneeled down in the corn and drew and in seconds she was right in front of me. 2 yards tops and I shot right under her... I aimed for her heart and didnt' think about the arrow coming off lower then my sights ... WOW.. that sucked but I didn't have a camera rolling either so I guess it was ok
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Post by swilk on Sept 25, 2013 7:34:01 GMT -5
Close enough to get sprayed with blood .....
13 or 14 years old bow hunting in the HNF with my neighbor. Walking in with a homemade "Baker" climbing stand on my back. Looking down the trail I was walking on there was a little doe walking straight at me about 60 yards away so I just stopped and let her come.
I drew back as she weaved her way around a tree at about 10 yards and finally shot her at about 3 or 4 yards. Quartering hard to .... blood hit my boots. Deer ran about 30 yards and fell over.
With a gun .... base of the tree.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Sept 25, 2013 12:25:32 GMT -5
I have really enjoyed reading everyone's stories. Thanks!
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Post by INhuntin on Sept 29, 2013 11:11:13 GMT -5
A buddy & I were hunting the same woods and I watched as the deer walked under his stand. As the doe came out the other side he shot it, he says he didn't know if he should club it with the end of the barrel or shoot it, it was that close. He says the only thing that scared him was it hit the ladder of his stand as it stumbled & fell after shooting it.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Sept 29, 2013 11:33:40 GMT -5
A buddy & I were hunting the same woods and I watched as the deer walked under his stand. As the doe came out the other side he shot it, he says he didn't know if he should club it with the end of the barrel or shoot it, it was that close. He says the only thing that scared him was it hit the ladder of his stand as it stumbled & fell after shooting it. That sounds like my luck to have one knock me out of the tree after I shoot it. I can't imagine seeing one as close as all these encounters.
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Post by DFINN on Sept 29, 2013 15:33:09 GMT -5
4 OR 5 BOW SHOTS 10 YARDS OR LESS. 2 OF THEM RIGHT AT 4 STEPS FROM THE BASE OF MY TREE. ALL @ 17 TO 22 FEET OFF THE GROUND
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Post by single_shooter on Sept 30, 2013 22:18:14 GMT -5
Long read....but with some valuable lessons....
Closest with a bow was at about 10 feet straight below my stand - like many others have done. The doe decided to scratch herself against the tree I was in.
The absolute closest ones were with a shotgun and a pistol and were at about 6 feet and one at point blank.
The one at 6 feet I was sitting on the downhill side of a blowdown tree on a steep river bottom hill. Heard a deer running toward me but saw nothing. Next thing I know a nice 8 pointer jumps over the end of the blowdown and hops a couple small jumps and stops right in front of me....about 3 feet past my toes. He stopped in his tracks looking for me because he was sure sniffing hard and turning his ears every direction. I raised my 12ga slowly and right as I got about half way up his head swung around and he saw me. I John Wayne aimed and fired and we both fell down...because I didn't get the butt past my armpit and the scope drilled itself into my shoulder from a foot in front of me. I couldn't feel anything in that arm for an hour.
The pistol shot was a pure act of stupidity due to a complete lack of experience and skill as a young man. I taught myself to hunt - my Dad never took me and taught me...I was always the rabbit dog...never the hunter.
I had my sons with me on a cold dreary day of freezing drizzle (they were maybe 5 and 7 years old). At about 9am a doe (so I thought) popped out into the corn stubble. I raised my 20ga 870 and took about a 90 yard shot. The doe jumped and kicked just like in the hunting videos and ran back up the hill to our right where we watched her lie down. 30 minutes later she was laying all spread out. I saw her sides moving but assumed she was nearly dead. I went up to her and my son tells me she is still alive - I say it's okay - she is just about dead and I want to put her down so she doesn't suffer. I sneak up to her - and see that it is a spike - with one antler broken off and one that is about 6 inches long. I cuss myself for not making sure it was a doe. I then reach down and grab an antler.....it was at that very moment that I learned some valuable lessons about deer hunting.
#1 - never approach a wounded deer WITHOUT BEING READY TO SHOOT IT!!! #2 - never assume a deer is unable to stomp you to death #3 - never think that a small deer is weak....EVER #4 - if a deer's eyes are open it is dead...if they are closed...IT IS SLEEPING!!!!
All I can say is that this tiny...diminutive deer opened it's eyes - stood up - and proceeded to drag me around the woods while I hung onto his one little antler terrified to let go. After a brief moment (but seemed like a small eternity) I regained my composure - drew my Encore .308 out of it's shoulder holster - shoved it against the side of the deer and fired point blank. Yes...it made quite a powder burn on the fur and passed right through the spine. The deer and I both dropped to the ground in a pile. I look up at the astonished looks on my son's faces...and my oldest son looks at me and calmly says..."I told you it was still alive"
Of course...the boys immediately told on me to the wife in the first 5 seconds of walking in the house. MOMMY!!! Daddy was wrestling the deer and shot it!!!
I was so tired and cold I didn't even field dress it. The guy at the butcher shop hung it up...spun it around repeatedly and looks at me and asks...is this a road kill??....after I responded no...where did you shoot it?? I told him the black spot on the back - he asked what it was....and when I told him it was a powder burn from my pistol he just looked at me and started laughing. I told he and a few hunters there what occurred...they had a good laugh at me that day.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Sept 30, 2013 23:10:55 GMT -5
Single_shooter, those are good stories! Those boys will be telling that story for the rest of their lives.
I enjoyed it; thanks!
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Post by dbd870 on Oct 1, 2013 4:43:01 GMT -5
Don't feel bad, you're not alone....although mine was DEAD! Had one at fist light, maybe 125yds out; looked for bone, didn't see any, shot it. My KY hunting partner (Jeff) found it he informed me that's what it was. (Of course he kills a very nice 8 and his son, who was hunting the back side of the property, rolls up with a double drop tine - yeah I caught some that morning) Antler in my side was broken, other side about 5". Figured it must have blended in with the ear and not being full light yet it just didn't show up. These things happen! I also have 2 buttons to my name; first one we had watched a hunting show the night before on which one of the guys had killed a little one and one of the other guys was razzing him: "umm umm, that's some good eatin". When Jeff saw that button in the truck bed he got a big grin on his face - take a guess what the first words out of his mouth were. The more years you are out there, the more ways you find to mess up!
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Post by ccdeer1960 on Oct 1, 2013 17:35:56 GMT -5
About 20 yrs ago, I took one about 6 feet from end of barrel. I was headed back to the house and he was tracking me. I saw a nice rub on the way home and v'd back to get a better look at it . Next thing you know ,I heard something walking, and turned around and here came a buck ,with his nose to the ground. Shot him point blank. dropped him in his tracks.
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