About 10 feet from the muzzle. Taking a break, eating lunch right at the bank of the Chickahominy River, sitting on a log beside a cypress tree. I hear trotting in the water to my right. Set my food down, pick up my slug gun, and a doe comes out out past the cypress tree, stops and stands. Shot her, she plopped in the water, not more than about 30 yards from my truck. Easiest kill and haul-out I ever had.

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