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For those of us who responded to Breechplug's post on the longest ML shot - What was your closest shot.
I'll start by saying that mine actually depends on where you're measuring from. If from the body it would be about 7 feet. If from the muzzle, more like 3 feet. That big old doe just kept coming and coming and coming. I finally had to shoot her before she became a bore obstruction!

40 yards with my flintlock

LOL, definitely not that close! I shoot em before that :D

I'd say about 20yds is my closest.

15-20 feet straight down - it was foggy and I could not see him until he was below my stand. I ruined part of his backstraps and loins on that one.

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About seven from the tree I was ten feet up in, so maybe 12 feet. It was with a .50 caliber percussion cap rifle, roundball, 85 grains of Goex 2f. I shot her in the back of the head where it meets the neck. That animal dropped right where she stood.

10 feet with my old Black Knight.

bronko22000

This was not with a ML it was 300Win Mag, but 5-7 yards on a 6x6 bull elk.

Good One Bronco, I was thinking the same thing and going to post a thread about the same thing.
I like you have had a bunch of real colse shots. I hunt from the ground a-lot and have had many courious and unsuspecting deer come real close to me. I remember one close shot with my old CVA Staghorn Mag. I was standing next to a Big Oak Tree almost close to the one I had a Pic of not too long ago on the forum. Anway I was a stander on a drive and as soon as I got next to the tree here came 2 twin 5 Pointers right at me. As soon as they got next to the tree I was standing at they stopped about a foot from the tree. I slowly raised the MLer and did'nt even have to aim as the muzzle was just about a foot from the deer, I fired.
What I remember most about this is this was the first time I had a MLer that would handle a Magnum Charge of 150 grs, at the shot the deer was thrown about 5 feet into the tree next to the one I was standing by, it got up and ran 150 yds through the woods and left NO Blood Trail even though it was shot through the heart, I followed the scuffed leaves in the woods to find the deer.
The MLer was a CVA Stag Horn Mag with a 240gr XTP a 150gr's of Pyro Pellets and a Win W209 Primer, the scope was'nt needed.
One other time and this was with a Bow, agian I was walking through the woods and saw a deer comming, I hugged a tree. I saw it was a Buck and drew back, as the buck passed I though he was going to knock the arrow off the rest as he went by, I shot.....he piled up 30yds away. I can go on and on as I have had way more shots from 0-15 yds then any other with bow and mler. Im more of a close shot than a long shot hunter as most of all my shots with a bow are 20yds and under and with a MLer are 50yds and under.
(BP)

The same 15 yds for me. Most of that was in elevation as I was on a rock overhang.

HA