What is the closest kill shot you have made?

[coldpaddler]

My most memorable shots are the close ones.  The best I have done is a whitetail doe at 6 paces while hiding in a patch of tall timothy grass.  Another one was a small buck just 4 paces from the tree I was in.  I remember them as if it happened this morning.  Both were shot with a recurve, 54# @ 28”.

What are some of your close shots??

[Pinecone]

Mine was eight yards...pronghorn buck with a Morrison Recurve. What a rush!

Claudia

[houseman]

6 yards, Morrison shawnee.

[AZStickman]

5 yards Blacktail Buck....Still hunting Terry

[LoneWolf]

Killed one with a knife, not sure if that counts.  FYI, just because a deers back legs are broken down from tangling with a car, they are still very active and dangerous.  Trust me on that one.

[Landshark160]

1 yard from the base of my tree, complete pass through.  I could swing my pull-up cord and hit my arrow sticking in the ground.

Shot another one this year at 2 yards from the tree.  Will post a pic later so you can see the angle.


 

[Shaun]

NOw this is a thread! There was a longest shot thread going but the challenge for me today is getting close. I arrowed a javelina from the ground at less than 1 yard. Any closer and my front foot would have been in danger. 47# MOAB with cedar arrow.

[FOX SQUIRREL NUTS]

4 yards.  this is what turned me onto traditional.  Spent 750 bucks on my wheelie bow with all the gadgets to shoot a deer close enough to kill with a baseball bat.  Loving it now

[Eric Krewson]

3 yards on a spike out of a ground blind and 5 yds or less on this one from another ground blind in  a small hollow.

 

[Old Ways]

Oops, we now have 2 threads on this subject. Here is the other.

   The other thread by this name  

Can somebody combine them into one?    

[Ray Hammond]

2 feet- 9 point whitetail around 120 inches...he came out of a pine thicket- I just happened to be stalking the edge of the pines where they changed to hardwoods.

A doe had run across the open woods behind me, around 100 yards so I turned around and backed up to a tree, glassing the area she ran through when I heard footsteps behind me, coming my way.

I put my binocs down, grabbed my bow handle (whenever I stand still, I always nock an arrow and put it in my arrow holder so its ready) and this big bodied dude came by in that low crawl kind of like a scent-trailing dog walk/runs, you know? That doe running across was ahead of him in the pine thicket and I guess when he heard her bust out he figured he would cut the corner on her.

I ran the arrow through him almost shooting straight down- leaning over to get through both lungs- he went down in 20 yards.

Love will do it to a man every time!

Everything I shoot is 25 yards and under, but the most common yardage is under 5 yards because I hunt pigs a lot and like to get real close on them.

[last arrow]

Here are the closest shots I can think of.

Carp - several close enogh I had to be carefull not to hit my feet

Snow shoe Hare - 3 feet

White tail 7 pt - 5 yards from a tree stand

Mule deer 4x4 - 8 yards as it stood up in its bed

All with recurve bows

By the way, my closest miss was about 10 yards at a cow elk after it left its bed - you have to wonder...

[Bill Carlsen]

From the ground I shot a small buck from 3 yards. From a tree I shot several staight down.  I don't take the straight down shots any longer as they tend to be the ones that give me the highest percentage of poor trails and/or unrecovered game. On the ground I will take them as close as they will come...from a tree I prefer the 15-20 yard range which almost always gives me two holes and very short blood trails.

[jeff / sc]

Hog at 3 yds and doe at 6 yds both on the ground.  Stalked the hog, shaggy suit setting on ground for doe.

[Shape Shifter]

Between 5 and 8 yards on Hogs on the ground.

[Tom P]

I shot a rabbit one time that  ran up and stopped just about a foot in front of me.

A Muskrat at 6 ft with a rubber blunt, feet in the air stone cold dead.

Whitetail doe 2 yds. from base of tree.

I once touched a yearling doe as she walked by a tree I was standing behind, not really the best thing to do she came unglued.

[Doug S]

This year I stalked up to a round bale that 2 antelope where laying behind to stay out of the sun. The wind was good and I got right next to the bale and then drew and leaned around till I saw butt then guts then chest and let go. It was a 2 step shot.

[Steve Crowl]

I shot a doe on the ground at less than 2 yards. I was kneeling behind a log and she was standing on the other side within arm reach. When she came around the end of the log the John Schultz longbow took over from there. Now that was fun!

Bowwalker >>>>>============>

[Curtiss Cardinal]

My first deer at the tender age of 12 was shot at less than 5 feet. I've killed two feral boars in self defense at point blank range aka just before they tore at me with their tusks meaning 1 foot or less.

[Frank V]

Timber Rattler @ 10' with a rubber blunt & longbow. Gophers in back yard @ 5-10'. Taught me how to get the rattler. Frank