Mine was a small whitetail buck at maybe 10 yards, tops. Closest me or any of my buddies had ever got one. But the following year one of my buddies outdid me. He was sitting in heavy wooded cover on the edge of his field handgun hunting. Just before dark a big 10 point comes walking down the edge of the woods. He held his 6" Colt Python in both hands with arms outstretched from the bushes, waited until the buck came by and dropped the hammer and put a 180 gr. Hornady XTP on it just as the front shoulder went by. He said there was less than a foot between the muzzle and the deer. He had a full shoulder mount done and the taxidermist backed up his story with his questions about how the hide got powder burned so bad.
