About 10 feet on bull moose. 1st shot to shoulder (210 NP!) at @ 100 knocked him down, but blew up on the blade, peppering nearside lung with bb bone and lead. Never found the back part. No damage to far side lung. Haven't used that bullet since.
Walked up on "dead" moose, from the front. Don't do that! 2nd one sorta up the nose worked tho.
2nd closest was also on a wounded bull my partner had shot- probably 25 feet or so. Again it was down, but jumped up at my approach.
3rd closest was a "yearling" bull at 16 yards, frontal just under the chin with 275 gr .338 GS. flipped moose over, nearly decapitated it.
Way mo better than #1!
A friend was sitting on a ridge top rock on a caribou hunt, rifle resting on knees, when he saw a cow coming up ridge toward him. He never even moved the rifle, just triggered it from his knees when the cow walked by about 3 feet off the muzzle.
I bounced my binoculars off a sow griz at 3 steps. Does that count? (rifle was some yards away, still in the boat).
Lacked penetration....
