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Three falls ago, I was laying around the house with the flue. Seen a doe come from a field across the road, went beside my house and then into the bush behind my house. A few minutes later a spike buck did the same thing hot on her trail. Already had my hunting stuff together, stopped feeling sorry for my self, grabbed my gun and went out back of my house and sat on a deer run. Fifteen minutes later here comes the spike. Shot him in the face at 7 yards with a 270 Win reload. What a charge! Then the work started, weak from the flue, got the ATV stuck in the mud, haul and skinned it out by myself.
 
My closest was a doe with a 50 cal muzzle loader. I had just finished a long walk into an apple orchard and was resting under an apple tree. I heard a noise from where I had just walked , turned and saw a doe walking very quickly down the trail. She never saw me and I shot her as she walked by me at around 10 feet away. The 385 gr lead bullet took out both lungs and she ran about 200 feet before dropping.
 
Now this is a good thread!! :)

I routinely have them walk by be in my spot within yards, sometimes a few feet if I am lucky.Mind you, can't get a shot at them when they are that close.

I have my shooting spots predetermined and ranged so that I am not miscalculating when the time comes.

21 yards is where they usually stop and present a shooting opportunity the way I am set up.
 
captonion said:
Witnessed my cousin have to pull the barrel of the shotgun back to shoot a doe,inches from the muzzle.
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I wasn't that close but just about. One morning my friend shot a doe and we dressed her and took her back to the camp. In the afternoon I was sitting in a ground blind and fell asleep. I opened my eyes to see a small buck head down about 3 feet from me on my left side. Thank got I just had a 243 since I took the safety off and shot from my lap. He dropped right next to me since I ended up breaking his back from the angle I was on.
Nice little six point. It was not until we started talking about it that night did we figure it was due to the doe smell all over my clothes from the morning
 
Shot a two-point [Immature] Bull moose at 15 feet. He walked out on a trail right in front of me. I was standing perfectly still beside a small alder bush, and I am sure he never saw me at all. No sights used...pointed rifle and shot, DRT. A Muley buck at 12 feet. Me Standing in a thicket of hazelnuts, deer came up and started eating the nuts that were on the ground right in front of me. Another point and shoot proposition. He wheeled to run, but collapsed withing a couple of yards. Eagleye.
 
You bunch of pansies, killing deer and such at close range. Try getting up close and personal with a skunk, now that gets the sinus passages going. Can`t remember how close, but it as way to close. One of those things you learn as a young lad and never ever forget.
 
When I was a teenager, while standing over a groundhog escape hole the chuck stuck his head out and I shot it with a 12 gauge cooey 84. I seen him go in and being very soft footed I worked to the hole expecting him to pop his head out to see if it was ok.
It wasn't!
 
Once I was watching from the edge of a drainage when the world just went dark. I lit my lighter and saw nothing but the inside of a moose. I realized I had been swallowed by some moose that had been feeding behind me and just happened to swallow me along with some willows he was browsing. I knew it must be a big one. So I shot. There was a good exit wound.

I think that is the closest I will ever get to a moose.

The shot was really loud too.
 
Many years ago, I was sitting on a rock waiting for my buddies to push a bush for whitetail. A coyote trotted out of the trees and passed about 20 feet from me. He was looking back over his shoulder and didn't see me. That was the only coyote I ever shot.
 
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