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.
