Shortest Shot
11-12-2007, 02:32 PM
#21
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location:
Posts: 51
RE: Shortest Shot
Directly under my seat (shot between my feet) w/ a 30-30 ---130" 4x4 buck tailing a doe.
Next closest was @ 35ft w/ a .308 stalking in snow --- 155 5/8" 5x5 checkin his scrape line.
Closest to a deer ever was a "fork horn" buck came up to me and sniffed my boot.Thought I was gunna have to use the butt of my rifle to beat him away! (Caution NEVER spill a drop of Tinks #69 on your boot during the rut!)
Next closest was @ 35ft w/ a .308 stalking in snow --- 155 5/8" 5x5 checkin his scrape line.
Closest to a deer ever was a "fork horn" buck came up to me and sniffed my boot.Thought I was gunna have to use the butt of my rifle to beat him away! (Caution NEVER spill a drop of Tinks #69 on your boot during the rut!)
11-12-2007, 08:20 PM
#27
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: utica, new york
Posts: 164
RE: Shortest Shot
10 ft with a Rem. 870 12 gauge,3 inchBrenneke gold, He was facing me looking up and i put the sights on his brisket, he didn't have a clue i was there when i pulled the trigger he was dropping his head to sniff the ground and i hit him in the neck, he never moved,found the plastic wading in his rump, and the slug not far from that.
11-12-2007, 09:32 PM
#28
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: WI
Posts: 338
RE: Shortest Shot
I had a deer come bounding over the blowdown I was sitting in. I didn't aim, simply pointed, the muzzle was less than a foot from the deer when I fired, huge nubbin, must have field dressed close to 100 lbs. Several bow shots 5 -6 yards, right under tree, etc. Couple of other running deer with gun in that range also. It is very fun, exciting and rewarding to take them at close range.
11-13-2007, 06:57 AM
#29
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 411
RE: Shortest Shot
3 yards with a bow on a whitetail doe, and 4 yards with a bow on a bull elk.
Once shot a whitetail doe with a rifle so close I couldn't findher vitals with any amount of precision in the scope, had to aim down the barrel. I think it was about12 yards.
Shot a few with a shotgun closer than that out of a stand though.
My wife has the record though. She, myself and her father were whitetail hunting in central Montana the year after we were married. My wife was sitting in a make-shift ground blind and had a big whitetail doe come straight over the top of her. She shot from the hip with her .243, broke the deer's neck, and had it slide to a stop a mere 3 feet from her boots (basically the blind broke the deer's momentum)
Once shot a whitetail doe with a rifle so close I couldn't findher vitals with any amount of precision in the scope, had to aim down the barrel. I think it was about12 yards.
Shot a few with a shotgun closer than that out of a stand though.
My wife has the record though. She, myself and her father were whitetail hunting in central Montana the year after we were married. My wife was sitting in a make-shift ground blind and had a big whitetail doe come straight over the top of her. She shot from the hip with her .243, broke the deer's neck, and had it slide to a stop a mere 3 feet from her boots (basically the blind broke the deer's momentum)
