How-Close???

[Shawn Leonard]

I have shot some as close at a few ft. I was on a push(deer drive)and was actually run over by a big doe and than as I tried to get up both her fawns jumped over me brushing the back of my head. Really shook me up to the point it made me sick to my stomach. My buddy yelled hear they come and I half crouched behind a good sized cedar as I heard them getting close(real close) I stepped from around the tree, the lead doe actually closed her eyes and lowered her head as she caught me square in the chest. Nocked me flat on my back, bruised my sternum and I was sore for a week! Shawn

[flippnsticks]

4 yards for me. A ghillie, spot stalk, bedded buck.

[centaur]

I touched a whitetail doe a couple of years ago. I had  an antelope stick his head in my brush blind back when I used to hunt antelope, and he took a bite of sagebrush from the blind. The closest I remember shooting a big game animal was a big black bear at 7 yards. Got a coyote at about 6 feet.

[bobzila]

My first deer was stalked to 10m and shot at about 6m and my second was stalked to 15m and shot from 15m.

[Thebear_78]

I used to hunt a lot of standing cornfields back home when I lived in michigan.  I shot a couple pretty close deer bedded in standing corn.    The closest was a decent sized doe shot at 8-10 feet.   It was a quartering away shot with the deers head and shoulder in one row and the rest in the other.   Honestly didn't know if it was a buck or a doe when I shot it, just a large deer.    The 160gr snuffer made short work of tracking.