your closest shot

[elkbreath]

geez brian!  Did you get to full draw?  No snap shootin there I'm sure! :-)

[bear1336]

Whitetail at 4 yds,turkey at 7 yds.

[Kevin Bahr]

Whitetail fawn and doe.  2 yards and 4 yards, respectively.  Standing in thick brush and both deer were walking down the edge of a standing corn field.  Shot them about 10 seconds apart.

[Bill Carlsen]

A small buck walked by me at 9 feet. I was on the ground shooting a 67# Shadow Eclipse longbow and chundoo shaft with a 145 grain Hunter's Head.

[bbassi]

Originally posted by Brian Krebs:
a black bear that had my left foot in its mouth.

OK - Brian wins! LOL

This reminds me of a game of "hold my beer and watch this!"

[varmint]

4 yards after I watched him rub a cut off tree limb directly under my stand.

[lil jake]

i shot a doe last year with my 55#bear bow from about 8 yards.

[JimB]

Before portable treestands,I shot a whitetail,straight down beneath me from a maple tree.My "platform" was a limb,sloping at about a 30 degree angle.I'd guess about 12 feet.I shot one antelope at 30 feet.I once let app.30 doe and fawn antelope pass by me at 20 feet,while I hunkered in tall weeds.The buck was last and I had to let him get by to draw and shot him at 40'.I believe antelope have trouble focusing at very close ranges 30' and under,especially if you are in some cover.

[James Wrenn]

About 30yds on the only deer I have ever killed on the ground.About 6 yards on hogs.

[wingnut]

I forgot one that I didn't miss.  I had spent the better part of two hours stalking two giant boar hogs that were feeding in a small meadow surronded by Texas brush. (nasty stuff with lots of stickers)  Anyway I finally got in position behind a tree as the boars fed into the shot lane.  I picked a pig and drew for the shot.  The arrow sailed beautifully over his back at 15 yds.  Man was I pissed that I missed and was having some serious self-talk as I walked down a trail.  

Suddenly on my right the brush was moving and coming right at me.  I took one step back and started to draw.  A nice boar stepped out at 6 ft and took two steps towards me.  He finally saw me in the trail and started to spin away.  I slipped the arrow in right behind the shoulder and took it in the heart.  The shot was no more then 4 ft.

Good thing I didn't think about how far he was probably would have shot under him.  LOL

Mike

[nutmeg]

Whitetail,6 pt. 6yds. Gail Martin takedown 55#@28". Homemade cedar, Magnus 2bld.125g(nut)

[Jacobm]

I climbed about 5 feet up a tree to get a better look at a field.  Minutes later a P&Y whitetail walked directly under my feet and stopped.  Good thing his head was down or he would have been looking at my boots. Maybe 5 or 6 feet of arrow flight to impact.  Took 22 hours to find the deer. Forgot to practice at that distance!

[ChuckC]

Don't know about game, but I was with a friend who took a shot at a running deer during a drive (I know... this was a LONG time ago) and his arrow centered a tree about 25" in front of his bow.  Obviously his arrow didn't even clear his bow and made a heck of a racket when it whacked the bow.  

I shat a small deer that was maybe 5 feet from the tree I was in.  My platform was 7' high.

ChuckC

[GingivitisKahn]

Originally posted by ChuckC:
 

I shat a small deer that was maybe 5 feet from the tree I was in.  My platform was 7' high.

ChuckC

Yow!  I bet it took a while to recover from that!

 

[Izzy]

White tail, 5 yards 55# Zipper curve.And many, many mosquitos at literally swatting distance.  

[TSP]

Running doe whitetail, 4 yards, 48# Widow.  Mostly self-defense since she had been coming straight at me.  Should have let her pass on by...a good buck was on her tail and came through maybe 30 seconds later.  Dang it.

[matt schuster]

Kevin - don't you know that we kill yearlings not fawns. . lol.  Fawns are what your buddy shoots when he shoots a yearling.    Sounds like you had an exciting morning.

[Kevin Bahr]

  HA!  I forgot that basic rule of thumb Shoe Man.  If it weren't for "yearlings", I'd go hungry sometimes.  It was my first bowkills with a recurve.  Good times for sure!  Now if I could just do it again...

[Walt Francis]

I killed three elk at 3-5 yards.  While elk hunting I shot a mountain lion between the eyes, as he was coming at me; a 3 yard shot.  I took one step and nudged its head with my foot.

[b.glass]

Very cool thread! Seven yards on the ground at  the 12 pt. whitetail buck in my avatar. 47# Fox longbow. First, and only, big game kill to date.