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15 feet. It was just one of those days where the planets were alligned and everything went right. My brother shot a spike at our camp in Pa. at first light the first morning. I went over to check on him and ended up staying in his stand. About 45 minutes after he drug his out I shot another spike, sniffing his gutpile. Pa. a one and done state, so we broke camp and headed back to Ohio to hunt half a day back home. Matched up with my buddies at about 1:30. On stand by about 2:30. About 4:00 I'm standing on a logging road and here comes a buck trotting right at me. They said I shot him in self defense. 15 feet and the wad from the shotgun slug was stuck in it's skin. Man, are they tall when they rear up on their back legs like that.
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7yds with a rifle
4-5yds with a bow
Just remember that I killed one in the early 70s with my Bearcat .22. Probably 10-12 feet..
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About 10 paces, headshot to a muley buck.
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First day of PA Buck season when I was 13 my smart a$$ older brother stuck me in the limbs of a huge old pine tree, he figured that way I wouldn't wander off and ruin his first day hunting season. An hour later a small 6 pt stopped right below my stand and I was hunting with a old 20 gauge single shot shotgun with pumpkin balls. Total distance of the shot was about 10 or so feet, after the shot the little buck ran 10 yards and dropped
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20-30 feet while snow tracking.
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25 yards, I had put a 15 ft ladder stand together half up the hill on a creek bottom! He came walking under at 3 in the afternoon, Cold as a witches tit never stopped walking and grunting like a goat! Full rut and he had azz on his mind! I let him keep walking and turned and old 3x9 redfield TV scope down, model 100 winchester in 308, brainstemed him! Bang flop! I just sat there and said WTF just happened! I had set up on a scrape line trail! v best winpoor
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Killed a doe that was within 20 feet. I'd be willing to bet that she was no more than 10 feet away.
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I shot my first deer out of a stand I had put up for bow hunting. It was on an old logging trail and the stand actually hung out over the closest rut. The deer came by in the same rut and I may have been hanging out over him. The distance of the shot was vertical not horizontal. Probably about ten feet, all of it down. I felt a little silly shooting him with a scope sighted rifle sighted in for 200 yards when I could have probably killed him with a brick.
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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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My closest was a little buck at a little less than 10 feet with a bow. I was in a low stand on the side of a tree, but behind a fairly thick bush. The deer walked up from a totally un expected direction and started browsing on the bush I was using as cover. It was a clear, broad side shot and I didn't screw it up.
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I think my closest was about 15 yards with a rifle, 12 paces with a bow. Cat
scopes are cool, but slings 'n' irons RULE!
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Less than 3 yards with OO buck, and 6 yards with a .300 H&H. 7 yards with a bow, all from the ground. My average is probably less than 50 yards, with just one exceeding 100.
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Between 10-15 yards for me with a 44 mag. I once poked a little fork horn with my gun barrel but didn't shoot him. Another time fall turkey hunting I had to step sideways to avoid being run over by a small herd coming down a game trail at me.
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T/C Hawkens 50 Cal - 10 to 12 feet from the end of the barrel broadside shot. Was sitting on the ground eating because of low sugar. Grabbed the Hawkens, cocked the hammer back, shouldered and aimed, pulled the trigger = smoke. Then he got to ride in the trunk of a 2007 Ford Focus. Ken
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So how much does a bullet drop at 10 feet coming out of an '06 anyways? Man, I'd hate to be sighted in too low for that long range shooting like that.......
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I shot a spike buck while hunting from a stand at about 20 feet a few years ago.
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Shot a little dink nubbin' buck one morning with an old hand built heavy azz 1/2 stock .54 cal plains style rifle. I was sitting on side of a hill by a patch of bunch grass watching big open area. Damn thing nearly ran over me running up the hill. Shot him at mebbe 15'. That .535 round ball went from stem to stern. And kept on going! Deer didn't.
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Three feet, give or take a bit? Sitting under a tree looking at rifle. Really windy day, so never heard it coming. Looked up and there's a small buck out of some nearby brush, full tilt boogie coming right at me. Squeezed one off when he came by, raised rifle a little, still in lap. Dead-on heart shot. Naturally I took full credit, no one at camp was havin' any of it. But I still had me a dead buck hanging. Next closest was probably about 30 feet, with M629 Smitty. Prepared for running shot, as I'd seen it coming thru the woods and it just suddenly stopped dead for no reason, that far away. Luck or no luck, sometimes stuff just happens.
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I shot a three point blacktail that stuck his hed out of the ferns about ten feet away.
I missed one that was bedded under a root bole where I had been sitting smoking a cigarette. He wasn't more than three feet from me. He had held for about five minutes.
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