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Posted: 12/4/2021 5:16:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: vatopa]
What is the closest you have actually shot a deer.
For me it is about 7 yards with a bow. Buddy shot a doe this morning at about 3 feet. Shot it with double ought buckshot. The plastic wad went thru it's heart and out the other side. Had a perfect circle surrounded by the pellets circles. |
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CA, USA
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Posted: 12/4/2021 6:24:53 PM EDT
[#1]
35 feet. 7 Rem Mag. Whoopsie.
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MS, USA
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Posted: 12/4/2021 8:12:56 PM EDT
[#2]
About 10 or 12 yards with a copper 223 bullet. Shot in the brachial plexus. He dropped like a rock and only made about a 1/2 reflex kick.
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Posted: 12/4/2021 8:20:36 PM EDT
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About 5 feet. Hunting from the ground with a muzzleloader.
One of the first deer I'd shot. A big doe. I was pretty pumped. |
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Posted: 12/4/2021 8:42:49 PM EDT
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Heard a deer running full speed towards me through dry leaves and thick brush. A buck came blasting by so close I thought he was going to run me over. Shot him at almost contact range as he came abeam me. Didn't even have my head down on the stock. I saw the muzzle blast blow his fur. He piled up in a creek about ten yards behind me.
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VA, USA
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Posted: 12/5/2021 1:44:18 AM EDT
[Last Edit: xwinder]
[#5]
5 yds with crossbow & Rage broadhead.
Seated in a trimmed out “cave” in patch of briars. Saw a doe coming from my left along the brush line and leveled the crossbow. As she stepped into the opening she paused perfectly broadside - Thwack. Mule kicked and bounded 30 yds out into the field. |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 12/5/2021 1:52:00 AM EDT
[#6]
Originally Posted By vatopa: The plastic wad went thru it's heart and out the other side. Had a perfect circle surrounded by the pellets circles. Post a pic if you have one. Not surprising but interesting to see nonetheless. |
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ID, USA
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Posted: 12/5/2021 2:31:37 AM EDT
[#7]
Many years ago when I was a young hunter, I put down a 6x6 bull elk at about 12 feet with a 303 British (Lee Enfield no 4) topped off with a $39 Bushnell scope. I was sitting near the top of a hill, hiding out up on a big boulder waiting for the elk to move up mountain for the day, hoping they would come by me. So of course, he came in from completely the wrong direction, behind me and to my right side.
I managed to get my gun switched around to left handed as he came through some brush and couldnt see me for a second or two, and got a bead on a spot in front of this huge ponderosa pine, and waited for him to pass the tree. But elk are wily buggers, and he stopped with his chest behind that big tree, and not enough of his head past the tree to take a head shot. Oh hell no, I thought. As if in slow motion, I saw him crouching in preparation to run for it, and at the same time I laid down backwards on the boulder I was on. That gave me just enough change of angle to see his chest. So, shooting left handed, lying mostly on my back, rolled a bit to the right side, with the gun canted a full 90 degrees from having the scope upright, it all came together, and I put a 180 grain power point right through the center of his pump station a split second before he launched. He made about 20 yards in maybe 2 or 3 leaps and went down hard. I lept off the rock, chambered another round, and made for a spot where I could make a follow up shot if needed. As I came around a patch of brush, me and the elk looked each other in the eyes for a long few seconds before his lights went out, and he was gone. Little did I know then (almost 20 years ago now), that was the only bull elk I ever got a chance at. |
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Posted: 12/5/2021 2:04:24 PM EDT
[#8]
When I was about 14 or so I had a small buck come out of a briar patch 10 feet away. I was sitting on the ground against a tree and he came directly to me, sniffed my marlin 30/30 barrel, then my shoulder, and walked directly in front of me at 2 feet. I let him walk about 10 feet away and took him down
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Posted: 12/5/2021 2:15:23 PM EDT
[#9]
Never closer than about 95 yds. They always seemed to walk out of the woods right about that distance from me.
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NJ, USA
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Posted: 12/5/2021 4:02:40 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Sc0tt]
[#10]
4' or so. well, and 25' up. put an arrow straight down through right side of her spine, lung, and heart. dropped in about 50 yards. her friend was still eating and only looked up to watch her run and drop, then went right back to eating
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MO, USA
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Posted: 12/6/2021 1:20:23 AM EDT
[#11]
About 20’ directly above, .44 mag revolver on a nice sized doe, I aimed for the base of her neck to keep from hitting the back straps. It was like nailing her to the ground.
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Posted: 12/9/2021 2:44:56 AM EDT
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The first deer I ever killed with a bow was my closest at 5 yards. It walked underneath my stand and stopped, giving me a steep shot.
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Posted: 12/9/2021 3:22:07 AM EDT
[#13]
A doe directly below my climber. Shot her with a 1911 in top the head.
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MO, USA
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Posted: 12/9/2021 7:42:50 AM EDT
[#14]
7-8 feet with a 30-06 shooting 180 Ballistic tips.
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WA, USA
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Posted: 12/9/2021 11:34:02 PM EDT
[#15]
289 yards
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Posted: 12/19/2021 4:23:49 PM EDT
[Last Edit: shack357]
[#16]
Shot one at roughly 25 feet with a .45-70 a few years back. Good size doe, I was in a 15 or so foot treestand, and she was just far enough out that I didn't have to shoot down through her spine.
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Posted: 12/21/2021 6:34:02 PM EDT
[#17]
About 3 feet. Buck did EVERYTHING perfect - chasing does, but they went to the feeder, he didn't. He skirted and stayed in the brush. But I was in there too. I lifted up and shot him right in the back of the neck.
 Attached FileWith a bow - best I think about 10yds. |
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Posted: 12/21/2021 10:29:42 PM EDT
[#18]
Close enough that I hit it in the ribs trying to get the barrel up to shoot. I stepped back about a foot and shot it in the head with the shotgun with about 6"clearance. Yeah, I burned some hair and hide.
Really rainy day, so rainy it was loud. It must have been laying down on the other side of a fallen tree I was walking beside. Just jumped up and froze there. Small doe. |
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USA
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Posted: 12/21/2021 10:49:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SteelonSteel]
[#19]
An inch or two.
About 7 yards with a bow. |
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Posted: 12/22/2021 12:04:33 PM EDT
[#20]
7 or 8 feet with a bow.
15-20 feet with gun. |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 12/23/2021 1:19:48 PM EDT
[#21]
12 feet. Directly below my stand.
I watched my buddy completely miss one from about 10 feet with a rifle…. |
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Posted: 12/23/2021 1:36:30 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 3BP: I watched my buddy completely miss one from about 10 feet with a rifle…. Scope off? Buck fever? Or just a plain miss? |
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Posted: 12/24/2021 11:08:40 PM EDT
[#23]
Closest ever would have been less than 15 feet.
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Posted: 12/24/2021 11:47:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 3BP: I watched my buddy completely miss one from about 10 feet with a rifle…. My dad missed one from not much farther. I think it was a case of being such a gimme shot that he didn't bother to aim. Still should have hit it SOMEWHERE, but there was no sign of blood and we had fresh white snow. |
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SC, USA
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Posted: 12/26/2021 2:53:53 PM EDT
[#25]
1st deer with a crossbow, the front left shoulder was 6- 8 inches from the tree I was in. I shot the 6 point between the shoulders and out the bottom of the chest.
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Posted: 1/9/2022 7:01:23 PM EDT
[#26]
10 feet directly below my treestand.
Never reached for my rifle,10mm to the base of the neck. |
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Posted: 1/9/2022 11:52:24 PM EDT
[#27]
Maybe 10yds with my bow.
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Posted: 1/10/2022 8:16:17 PM EDT
[#28]
Less than 5 ft , from the ground with bow. Twice now.
Less than 15 ft, from the ground with ML. Head shot on a big doe. Messy and I won't do that again. |
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WI, USA
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Posted: 1/10/2022 8:30:05 PM EDT
[#29]
About 15 yards with a slug gun.
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Posted: 1/17/2022 4:19:27 PM EDT
[#30]
I’d say 10yds.
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SC, USA
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Posted: 3/9/2022 7:02:30 AM EDT
[Last Edit: JPP]
[#31]
I’ve shot 4 deer under 10 yards.
Two nice 8 pt bucks with bow at 7 ish yards both times (both from a chair on the ground). One buck with slug gun at 10 yards. 8 pt buck at 12 yards with 7mm magnum. |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 3/10/2022 9:56:29 AM EDT
[#32]
6 Inches. Driving deer last day of gun season. I was the one driver working a 25-30 row patch of standing corn. About 40 yards in I jumped several deer that ran out the other end to my buddies. They shot 2 and one old smart doe doubled back down the row I was in. I moved over 1 row and got my 629 44 mag ready. As she passed me I shot once she crossed the end of the barrel. Caught the back edge of both shoulders on a pass through shot. There were powder burns on the hide and the surrounding area was absolutely gruesome with blood and meat splatter.
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OH, USA
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Posted: 3/14/2022 7:18:18 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rodslinger: Scope off? Buck fever? Or just a plain miss? Just a plain miss. To his credit, he had some medical issues which caused some pretty bad tremors, plus being very out of shape led to some super heavy breathing..... A fantastic human being who is no longer with us, but has carved MANY hunting memories in my head. |
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Posted: 3/14/2022 11:56:52 PM EDT
[#34]
18" with a Super Blackhawk, base of the skull.
Big doe came walking up behind my blind and rubbed along the side and she walked by. Stopped right at the corner. About 8' with the 30-30. Basket 6 walked straight up on me while I was sitting on a stump between brush changing socks. 10' with the bow, the one and only time I hunted archery from a ground blind. Had seen 2 dozen others that morning that stayed at least 60 yards away. |
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Posted: 3/15/2022 12:35:31 AM EDT
[#35]
Poor doe got her back legs hung in the fence and the coyotes found her during the night. When I found her she was still alive but in a bad shape. I put a 243 in back of her head from about 2 ft. Not good.
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Posted: 3/15/2022 1:19:54 AM EDT
[#36]
Blood spray distance.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 10:17:13 AM EDT
[#37]
My friends Dad was sitting on a trail buried in a hemlock in the Adirondacks. No does allowed area. Sure enough 3 or 4 does come walking down the trail and he let all of them pass within finger poking distance. He smacked the last one on the ass with his glove and he said she jumped and kicked so hard he almost had his face kicked in.
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Posted: 3/30/2022 10:51:55 AM EDT
[#38]
10 feet.
Walking a trail into my stand one afternoon and working my way through eight foot high weeds and scrub I came around a bend and looked up to see a buck laying on the ground looking the other direction. I froze and what seemed like forever he turned and began to rise and I just plugged him. |
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Posted: 4/15/2022 9:04:24 PM EDT
[#39]
18 feet. Measured with a tape. From my boot tracks to the hoof prints of the doe I shot.
Let's just say we surprised each other. She jumped a couple times and died. 556 ftw. |
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Posted: 4/22/2022 8:05:04 AM EDT
[#40]
Buddy shot one with buckshot this fall. It was about 6 feet. The wad went thru the deer.
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Posted: 4/24/2022 6:31:04 PM EDT
[#41]
I only hunt with guns, never bow hunted before. I also hunt from a ground blind and not a tree stand. Closest shot I've taken on a deer was about 25 yards with my 450 Bushmaster.
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MD, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2022 7:29:43 AM EDT
[#42]
Had to lean WAY out to clear my stand, maybe a yard from tree I was up.
Couldn't use pin, sighted down arrow. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2022 12:10:05 AM EDT
[#43]
About 7 yards with a .308. She took one hop and was dead before she landed. Wasn’t nasty or anything, just standard damage and clean pass through.
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Posted: 5/3/2022 3:09:04 PM EDT
[#44]
Glocked a doe that was sniffing my ladder stand once. So 16’ up and 3’ out.
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