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What the closest shot you have ever taken at a deer when hunting with as gun? I have heard many stories of deer being shot at 20 to 25 yards away

17yds. 357 Python.

7 yards with a gun. A few years later it was 10...same stand. Both bucks are mounted.

About 10 feet...

Then, I remembered after the "click" that I had cleared the chamber a few minutes earlier...

I got a pic of a forkhorn with powder burns somewhere.

A polaroid.

about 4 yards with a muzzleloader.

1st shot or finisher?
I've shot them off my dogs and finished a number that were 10-20ft away. 1st shots tend to be longer because we don't hunt from tree stands around here.

The closest I did shoot was 44 steps away IIRC.

Several times I could have shot straight down from my stand and brained one with a snub nose 38.

6 yards. I've shot quite a few at around 10 yards from a tree, and have shot at least one at 10 yards from the ground.

I missed one , Then killed him at 7-8 yards in front of hounds. A good race can get you pretty exited. He was running at me full tilt. When I missed him, he slammed on the brakes and looked behind him. Then I shot him in the neck with a load of 00. I guess when the first load went over him and hit brush behind him, he looked back to see what it was.

I also shot a deer out of a stand at about 7-8 yards, but I was 15' in the air, so that one was farther.

I killed one at 12 feet, another at about 17 feet.

The forked horn at 17 feet was shot out my dad's upstairs window with a .44 ... 225 grain speer 3/4 jacketed bullet if you care. I've shot several others within 30 feet of that window but that one was the closest.

The one at 12 feet was up in the woods. It had its nose down chasing a doe that went by me at less than 3 feet. I shot her "boyfriend" right down through the top of the skull with a Winchester 94 trapper ... also in .44. I have that rack at home. Small 4x4.

I'm not sure exactly what you're after with this info, but I guess it might interest you in this context that once I snuck up on medium forked horn buck that was lying down in its bed, facing away from me, and poked it in the ribs with my rifle barrel. That summabitch blew up and tried to run in 5 directions all at the same time. I cheated a little ... took my shoes off so the leaves didn't crunch.

These were all blacktails.

Tom

edit ... forgot one: I also shot a doe in the head ... probably about 4 feet from the muzzle.

I missed a 4 pointer a 1 ft. When the dog brought him down the same trail I was on and I had the step back or get run over buy got him the next shot when he jumped a log. Shot another one at around 8 feet that was charging me after doing battle with a big Walker hound named Jigs. He was so far into the rut U could smell him 50 feet always. I was lucky I held my water on that one.

I've killed two under 10 yds.

Whatever the width of a corn row is - and he was carrying the mail...

13 walking steps

I've killed more than I can count at under 25 yards some as close as 10. I use the same stands bow hunting that I do with a rifle.

About 5 yds. Somebody put some deer out up the hollow from me and she came around a small pine tree right in front of me. With a 6x scope on the 270, all I saw was brown in the scope but she didn't go far, just down a steep bank to the creek.

Dale

Killed my first deer at around 30 feet with a .30-30, and killed my closest at 12 feet with another .30-30 about 40 years later. Both were mule deer, which of course are never killed at anything less than several hundred yards.

3 or 4 big steps. He was bedded and had no clue he was there until I looked down and he was on a little bench below me.

Often wondered how that all happened since I was busting thru some thick stuff before I saw him.

4 yards with a bow and 6 yards with a 45 colt.