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Author Topic: What is the closest kill shot you have made?  (Read 3973 times)

Offline Jim Picarelli

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2007, 05:02:00 PM »
10ft on a 5pt walking to my tree stand
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Offline beachbowhunter

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2007, 05:51:00 PM »
javelina at about 10 feet...
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Offline wtpops

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2007, 06:01:00 PM »
This hog at 4 feet, was thinking that i need to pet her or shoot her

 
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Offline Bowshot

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2007, 06:04:00 PM »
Bull moose @ 3 yards.

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2007, 06:14:00 PM »
A beaver that was swimming along the bank I was kneeling on. It was soo close I wondered if the arrow left the string or the string "pushed" the arrow through it! That shot was less than a yard. Shot my first whitetail bow buck with an old Howatt Hunter recurve and a Bear Razorhead at 2-3 yards...right between my feet as I pearched in an apple tree. I was just a kid and can remember that like it just happened.
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Offline Old Ways

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #25 on: January 30, 2007, 06:37:00 PM »
Most my shots are between 10 and 20 yards but here are a few of my closer ones.

Still-hunt and stalk;
WT 6 point, 10 feet, heart, coming off bed
WT spike, 8 feet, lungs, turned when it saw me
WT spike, 6 feet, lungs, bedded
WT doe, 4 feet, straight on chest shot, I saw it coming, dropped to my knees on the trail and drew back. It walked right to me.

Tree Stand;
WT 4 point, 5 paces from tree

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Offline wifishkiller

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #26 on: January 30, 2007, 07:22:00 PM »
Blackbear 5 yards (doublebull blind)
Whitetail 3 yards (double bull blind)
shot a few more whitetails under 10
Hog 5 yards (stalking)
Everything else 10 yards or more.

Offline The Ursus

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #27 on: January 30, 2007, 08:02:00 PM »
Sheesh, I was gonna brag about my ten yard shot on a mtn goat but that doesn't hold a candle to what most of you fellas have posted.

Offline j yenney

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #28 on: January 30, 2007, 08:47:00 PM »
4 yards with a bear recurve.  Was my first elk with a bow and it happend so fast that I was only able to pull the bow back maybe to 35 #. The arrow burried almost to the feathers. Thats when I realized the importance of a two blade broad head (sharp)
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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #29 on: January 30, 2007, 09:20:00 PM »
Young IN six point 5" spread, that stepped out from behind a tree at @10 feet, just as I came to full draw with my Damon Howatt Hunter 65#, 2117 Eaton and sallelite three blade head.  He went ten yards and laid down.  The guy at the check station said he still had his milk teeth.  That was my third deer, first in Indiana.

Pesky stray dog with a blunt at @5 feet as he sneaked around the side of the house while I was practicing.

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Offline willerstick

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #30 on: January 30, 2007, 09:35:00 PM »
Small whitetail buck 2 steps in my compound days. Small buck 3 steps was my first traditional buck. Never looking back

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #31 on: January 31, 2007, 12:35:00 AM »
10 ft 6" I measured from the base of the tree to the foot prints in the leaves.
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Offline IndianaBowman

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #32 on: January 31, 2007, 06:23:00 AM »
@1800# bull moose at 6 steps.

Offline Plumbob

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #33 on: January 31, 2007, 06:46:00 AM »
If I am 6 steps from a Bull Moose something has gone terribly wrong.

Offline Mike Brown

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #34 on: January 31, 2007, 07:04:00 AM »
Urus I have never hunted them but 10 yards on a mountain goat seems like quite a feat.

5 yards on a bunch of hogs.  I like to sneak up on them while they are asleep.

5 yards from a box blind on deer.

Several deer about 3 yards from base of tree but the shot was a lot farther due to stand height.

Offline citori

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #35 on: January 31, 2007, 09:44:00 AM »
One hog @ 24' and one @ 8 feet last weekend!!! It was the first hunt with my BW PL other than rabbit hunting!  This is my first year with trad gear and I got 3 hogs and 1 deer this year and the furthest shot was @12 yards.  I LOVE trad bow hunting!!!!

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Offline Chris O

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #36 on: January 31, 2007, 11:12:00 AM »
My First deer I shot from 5 yards out of a treestand.

 

Offline Tim Kosteczko

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #37 on: January 31, 2007, 11:21:00 AM »
my trad kills are limited but starting to add up but all are close, the closest are:

Carp at about 3 feet, almost straight down while standing in a canoe that drifted over top of it laying in the sun. (just had to make sure the shot made it out of the canoe)

A cottontail at about 5 feet, it came out the wrong side of the briars (wrong side if you were the bunny).

My doe this past fall was about 5 yards from the base of my tree.

Offline Robert Honaker

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #38 on: January 31, 2007, 01:26:00 PM »
3yards,sleeping hog.put arrow thru center of breast bone as it was on it's side asleep.Took place on a 8ft wide bench on the side of a bluff.I stood there for a while before I shot, wondering what was going to happen on that bluff when the pig woke up with a arrow in it's chest.took me an hour to sneek this close and I wasn't gonna waste it,so I letr rip.kinda neet to watch a 200lb hog bail off a 40ft bluff with an arrow center mass betweem its legs.

Offline Teacher_of_the_Arcane

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Re: What is the closest kill shot you have made?
« Reply #39 on: January 31, 2007, 08:23:00 PM »
Hey Guys,

Eight yards on a black bear.

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