9 feet works! Tho you might want trust me on that distance.....
It was............interesting.
I've been closer by about 2 feet, but there was a patio sliding glass door between us. Not the same!
I may have had a deflection on my caribou kill earlier. I remember him being broadside at the trigger squeeze. Entry was behind the shoulder, exit---um- well back... taking out lung , liver, and paunch (ick!). 4 inch by 1/2 inch bone peeled off rear of near shoulder blade.
I could mis-rember the sight picture, or he could have turned just as I shot.
I feel better with the "deflection" theory......
