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Author Topic: What was your closest shot on game?  (Read 2506 times)

Offline YosemiteSam

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Re: What was your closest shot on game?
« Reply #40 on: July 29, 2020, 01:25:47 PM »
4 yards on a turkey.  No blind, just sitting on the ground.  The tom  & 2 jakes walked by at 2-3 yards but I took my shot after they passed.
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Offline IndianaBowman

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Re: What was your closest shot on game?
« Reply #41 on: July 29, 2020, 01:58:05 PM »
Alaskan moose at 9 steps, alligator at 6 feet, coy-dog at 5 feet.

Offline old_goat2

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Re: What was your closest shot on game?
« Reply #42 on: July 29, 2020, 02:49:29 PM »
Coyote at two paces
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Offline swamper

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Re: What was your closest shot on game?
« Reply #43 on: July 29, 2020, 04:48:42 PM »
My first bow deer I was kneeling on a limb in a pine tree and spike buck walked under me , from arrow to deer about 5 feet.

Offline Gdpolk

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Re: What was your closest shot on game?
« Reply #44 on: July 29, 2020, 05:38:02 PM »
My closest shot was a mature whitetail taken in the heat of the rut, from the ground in a blow down with my single piece bow on public land.  It was taken at or just under 4 yards.

I've also had a feral pig charge me after a hit at about 18-20 yards when I was younger that I wound up putting multiple rounds into that got under 1yd from me, but that particular scenario was very atypical and NOT representative of a good, close shot from the ability to get close to an animal.
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Offline Terry Lightle

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Re: What was your closest shot on game?
« Reply #45 on: August 01, 2020, 07:18:32 PM »
Doe at 3 yards ,a buck at 4 yards both on the ground,got lucky those 2 days
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