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I shot one so close it was fully cooked from the muzzle flash.
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Good thing I don't fish, I'd really tell some woppers.
I have shot over 30 deer and 50 yds would be a long shot. Usually within a few feet of my chair.

2006.. heard 2 bucks briefly going at it close by as I sat in a umbrella style ground blind. Few minutes later a 2x1 trots out and then sees me, turns and runs at me. I was chuckling when he was at 75 yards, still chuckling at 50 and whistled to spook him off.. at 20 yards and he was still speeding up I said screw it, I'm not going to end up in the papers as the guy who got beat up by a little forkhorn. He slid to a stop about 20 feet short of me. Bullet entered through his lower jaw and passed straight down the chest cavity - he was coming straight at me, the little fart.

5 minutes later I shot a 5x5 at maybe 8 yards in a wide open field as he stalked up on the spike to whoop his butt some more. You know that feeling when you have your scope set at 4x and you bring it up and all you see is brown fur? Yeah, I'd never had that feeling before either unless I'd left a scope dialed to 9x.

9:30am and hunting was over.

Killer deer:

A few years ago I was hunting on a friend's small rural property. We were running out a small patch of reforestration.

I walked up to a wire fence that ran through the middle of the pines. A doe sneaking out ahead of the beaters passed on the other side of the fence and I killed it with a shotgun slug. Never measured it but it had to be between 5 and 8 feet.

Jim