I have shot two inside ten feet. I pushed one off me with a shotgun barrel but did not pull the trigger. In the last ten years several at close on 25 feet one a little less. With a bow, two at about fifteen feet. Last year, two with a muzzle loader at less than fifty feet.
Oddly, over the last ten years even with so many deer at point blank range I have still averaged over 100 yards without shooting even one past 300.
Over the years, chasing down wounded deer for people, I've finished off a lot of them inside 30 feet.
For about fifteen years I had a dog that had a knack for pointing deer and she was good at it. Walking past a dog on point expecting to flush a bird and having a deer come up under your feet is exciting to say the least. The ones that didn't hold point well way too often would about run me over getting away from the dog.
