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I bet this guys was closer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rGGxMaWuaQ&list=PLD0D484F38689C537

Yep. That's too close...

Awesome video. Dang nice bull, too!

That's what it's all about, I guess....

He had some balls to stay frozen like that.

I'm surprised the bull didn't hear his ozone generator running.... grin

A buddy was closer on a bowhunt we were on several years ago, when the spike left he pee'd on my friends sleeve...could still smell it a day later.

I've had a cow elk come up and almost touch my face with it's nose. It blew snot on me when it got a whiff of human and whirled off.

Think I would have had to change my drawers

That video doesn't get old. Its been posted here at least one other time I've seen, but like I said I love it every time I see it.

That's an old video supposedly of Wayne Carlton, always a good one to see.

I've touched two separate bulls I've called in as they brushed past the cover I was in just because... both jumped then stood there trying to figure out what happened before walking off.

Funniest was I was calling for a guy archery season and a decent bull came over a rise from the side silent, I'm between the bull and hunter, lay down in the grass as the bull is getting closer. I look over at the hunter and he is flattened up against a big ponderosa with a spike six inches from his face trying to sniff him. The guy is panicked and lets out a screech with his diaphragm making the spike back off a couple yards.

Both bulls leave and I ask him 'what about the big bull at 30 yards'... 'What bull, all I saw was a spike about to lick me'

Kent

Less than 2 yards - had a nice 6x6 come in to shread the small Fir I was kneeling behind with my longbow. I was looking up at his chest with no shot thinking I was going to get my arse kicked if he didn't wind me first. Very intense - had me shaking.

I've been just a little bit closer and in exactly the same situation, with bow and the elk right off my shoulder so close I could have jabbed her in the nose. It was a cow and I had a cow-only tag in my pocket but I couldn't get around on her either. Had several others right in front of me at the time but couldn't draw on them either since the one on my shoulder would have, and eventually did, spook and take everyone with her.

I knew it was an old video, but I figured a lot of guys haven't seen it.

Cool video. Always neat to see how close you can get.

Closest I've been is probably 12-13 yards from 3 cows. I was creeping through heavy timber and had just walked into a clearing about 30 yards wide. I spotted 3 elk hoofing it up the mountain towards me. I froze, in the middle of the clearing with the sun beaming down on me, wearing blaze orange and blue jeans.

I had the wind in my favor and a small fir tree behind me to break up my profile. Other than that, I just stood stock still. Once they got into the timber and felt safe, they stopped for a quick rest. Perfectly broadside and 12-13 yards away.

Of course, I had a bull tag...

Wayne Carlton must have been using elk gell

Back in 1973 I arrowed a 5x5 bull elk at 10 yds. I was hunting just a few miles from my home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

I have bugled in a few bulls. I had a spike sneak in behind me and scare the poop out of me when he finally decided to bugle back at 20yds. I called in a 6x7 bull to about 30yds and all was looking up until the wind shifted. I didn't think elk had afterburners, but he did! As anyone who has bow hunted elk knows, elk stink! I was slowly making my way up to a park to glass when I smelled them....elk! I froze and caught movement up the hill about 15 yds. Turned out to be 4 cows and a calf and they had no idea I was there. I watched them for about 5 mins. then they made their way up and over the ridge. Way cool!

I love elk hunting!

Elk Country

About twenty years ago, I had a spike step out in the trail ten yards in front of me. I just set there on my horse and looked at him until he stepped off the trail and disappeared, because I was carrying only a cow tag.

Then ten seconds later a smallish 4x4 mule deer buck stepped into the same place. I slid my rifle out of the scabbard, dismounted my horse, and shot the buck. The closest deer I have ever killed.

You have never wacked till you have bean wacket.grin

About three yards on a rut rifle hunt in northern BC. Called him in from a long, long ways away.