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My closest was 1999 on the Opener of Ohio Bow Season. I was behind a camo blind on the ground, a few feet from a fence line. Just after sunrise a small herd of doe came by walked between me and the fence. I nailed the last deer in the group with a brisket shot inside 5 yards while the lead doe was staring at me through the die-cut blind less than 3 feet away.

However, I have had some other pretty spectacularly close encounters. My biggest bucks have all been taken inside 20 yards from a treestand. I had a doe stick her head into my box blind in 2010. I did not shoot her, but I got her sister that walked by a minute later.


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This happened either 50 or 51 years ago. a hunting companion and I were walking up a pretty steep logging road. There was brush on both sides of the road. I was walking on the left when all of a sudden, probably 20' up the hill,a 4 point buck(10 point eastern count) busted out of the brush and headed down hill towards me.

As he saw us, he moved off to my left side to miss me. As he went by, I cocked the 94 Winchester and swung from the hip and I do not know how the end of the barrel missed him. But I did shoot him in the neck and he slid down the hill. Pretty exciting. By the way, the buck was a cross between a black tail and white tail.

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I've shot a couple at 3 steps with bow. Deer and pigs and a few javelina that close.

I shot a deer once with my MZ, he was walking a trail next to a fence, I saw him coming, slid up to the fence and with little cover went prone and stuck the muzzle through....he saw me... too late, not sure the distance, but no more than 2-3 feet.

Wife and I had a doe step over my barrel while we were prone... I could never get it up high enough while she was close to shoot her without her being alerted....

And to flip the coin, have a couple kills just past 800 on game and a rock at 915... shot the rock to check the wind.... went back to game, and it decided to walk off... and never stop again.

Likely not the closest and certainly not the fartherest, but its all fun.


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I hunt from a climber. I use a rope to pull my rifle up, and to gage my height. I have had many deer stop directly under me. That is a difficult shot to make...so I have waited for the deer take just a couple steps from the tree.

25' if you count the distance from where I am sitting...5' if you only count the distance from the tree.

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Originally Posted by Calhoun
Kneeling over a dead forkhorn in the midst of a grazed out pasture and I got this guy at a maximum of 10 yards. Scope on 3x and all I could see was fur.

Forkhorn was shot at under 20 yards as it was charging me. Weird year.

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Right at 10 yards with a bow. Spike mule deer when I was a junior in high school.

On a related note, I called a coyote in one time and shot it off the hip as it was taking its last bound before landing on me. Maybe 3 feet. Shot low and gutted him.



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Hope he didn't land on you after you gutted him!!

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Didn't land on me, but don't know how, really. It all happened so fast I don't recall everything, but remember he did a 180 (seemingly in midair, but logically he probably hit the ground by my side and immediately turned around).

He then ran about 20 yards before before dying when his guts fell out.

I cleaned my shorts, then went over and found him.



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7 yards with a 45 cal Sharps rifle using a 540 gr Creedmoor bullet over a HEFTY charge of 3FG black powder, rattled him up, even though he was only a small 7pt, it was still one of my most memorable hunts.smile


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About 10 feet. First deer I ever killed.

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Sitting in a tree stand about 10" high and this one walked right under me, I just pointed the rifle straight down and shot him between the shoulders, dropped in his tracks....
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Stumpy ole deer if your tree stand was only 10" high. grin

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3 yds. 12 ga Remington 870 w/sluggers.


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Took my first deer , a 85# doe at 20 feet with a 243. Double lung and she ran 150 feet.

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Maybe 15' from a ladder stand with a S&W 39 and 147 grain Black Talons.

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Originally Posted by andrews1958
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


I was hiding behind a dead log next to the Yellowstone River, when three doe mule deer ran at me. I shot one as it lept over the log (and me) at, I guess about 2 ft. BAR in .270 Win 130 gr Nos BT. Blew the blank out of her.

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For me it was about 20 yrs ago, it was running about 10ft away, shot it with a Colt 44mag pistol at the base of the neck . The deer did a flip head over heals. I guess the the momentum of the bullet and the deer, it was the darnedest thing i ever saw.

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