How-Close???

[3Feathers]

How close have you taken deer on the ground? This fall will be my first attempt.

[KodiakMag]

3 yds...natural ground blind on the edge of a bean field.

[Night Wing]

My closest shot ever was 5 yards and that was too close for my tastes. If the deer would have caught any movement from me or heard any sound, it would have instantly bolted.

[RM81]

I didn't shoot, but the closest I've been was about a yard.  A little spike came running across a cut corn field and stopped right next to the tree that I was leaning against.  I could have reached out and touched him.  I wasn't going to shoot him, but I seriously doubt I would have been able to had I wanted to.

[wtpops]

Havent hunted deer in a very long time but my closest shot on a hog was 5 feet, his idea not mine. Ive had a lot of shots anywhere fron 4 to 8 yards but that 5 footer was the closest.

[T Folts]

12 yards

[wtpops]

The closest I’ve been to a deer is touching it. I was sitting on the ground with my back against a tree legs stretched out, a doe and her button buck came out of some brush about 10 yards away, the doe passed me up and caught sight of me at about 20 yards and started stomping and blowing trying to get me to move. The button buck saw me but didn’t know what I was and started to walk to me, he just kept coming and coming and then bent down and touched his nose to my toe, right when he touched my toe I flicked my foot and bumped his nose at that he jumped about 5' in the air as he was in the air I thought o no this is not going to end well, I thought he was going to come down right in my lap but he hit the ground where he was standing and covered me with dirt as he left.

[waknstak IL]

8 yards. Was walking to my stand at daylight and heard him coming thru the woods grunting like a pig. I stepped behind a tree,and he walked right in front of me. Sometimes running a few min. late is a good thing.

[David Dumke]

Originally posted by wtpops:
The closest I’ve been to a deer is touching it. I was sitting on the ground with my back against a tree legs stretched out, a doe and her button buck came out of some brush about 10 yards away, the doe passed me up and caught sight of me at about 20 yards and started stomping and blowing trying to get me to move. The button buck saw me but didn’t know what I was and started to walk to me, he just kept coming and coming and then bent down and touched his nose to my toe, right when he touched my toe I flicked my foot and bumped his nose at that he jumped about 5' in the air as he was in the air I thought o no this is not going to end well, I thought he was going to come down right in my lap but he hit the ground where he was standing and covered me with dirt as he left.

 

That's an experience right there.

[huntnmuleys]

6 yards on a small muley buck...

[Recurve50 LBS]

Had a doe last year at 3 paces from where I was sitting on the ground in a blow down.I had no chance at drawing on this deer and made no attempt. This season a doe at 8 feet from me again on the ground. I got busted while in the process of drawing on her. No shot taken. It is thrilling to have a deer come that close and have no idea you are sitting there. Can't wait for the next time.

[OS]

my biggest buck to date 150" 11pt. that trotted past me at 3 yards and caught an arrow as he passed.  In a brush flind along a fence row.

[cbCrow]

The closest I ever shot one was out of a deadfall at about 4 yds. Real nice 6 pointer!

[Lone Ranger]

5 yards- havent had a shot yet, but may being so close is a thrill! Ghillie all the way! I am making up my second one now.


L.R.

about 6 yds.--after the doe walked past me about 2 yds. away. i thought for sure she would smell me but she didnt,   ground blind.

[Hoyt]

First one I ever killed with recurve was no more than two steps. I was walking in a fire-break in Ft. Stewart back in about 1964 or 65 and when I came around a bend there was a big doe and yrling right on top of me almost. I had to step behind a big pine on the edge of the break, draw and when I leaned around it yrling was at about two steps.

[danderson]

wasn't hunting but walking my dog down our street this past winter, i saw 2 deer about to cross. They bolted and i bleeted at em for fun. The skipper turned around! Next few minutes i inched closer and closer and so did the skipper. My dog did not pay any attention! got to within 5 yards. After she blew, i remembered my camera in my pocket!

[swamper]

4 paces from me,walking up a field edge

[Yellow Dog]

Four feet in a standing corn field. I had to lean back to draw on him when he stepped into the row I was hiding in.

[Looper]

About 6 steps for me. A couple of years ago, I had a doe just about run over me. She came running down the hill behind me and must have thought I was a big stump. She veered around me so closely, I could have smacked her on the rump.

When I was in my early twenties, I had a fork horned buck sniff my bow tip. It was raining pretty hard and I sat down under a big cedar tree for refuge. After sitting there for a few minutes, I heard a cough right behind me, on the other side of the tree. A second later the little buck walking right in front of me a few feet away. I had propped my bow up right next to me. He sniffed it for a second or two, then moseyed on his way.