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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: coldpaddler on January 30, 2007, 03:05:00 AM
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My most memorable shots are the close ones. The best I have done is a whitetail doe at 6 paces while hiding in a patch of tall timothy grass. Another one was a small buck just 4 paces from the tree I was in. I remember them as if it happened this morning. Both were shot with a recurve, 54# @ 28”.
What are some of your close shots??
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Mine was eight yards...pronghorn buck with a Morrison Recurve. What a rush!
Claudia
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6 yards, Morrison shawnee.
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5 yards Blacktail Buck....Still hunting Terry
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Killed one with a knife, not sure if that counts. FYI, just because a deers back legs are broken down from tangling with a car, they are still very active and dangerous. Trust me on that one.
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1 yard from the base of my tree, complete pass through. I could swing my pull-up cord and hit my arrow sticking in the ground.
Shot another one this year at 2 yards from the tree. Will post a pic later so you can see the angle.
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NOw this is a thread! There was a longest shot thread going but the challenge for me today is getting close. I arrowed a javelina from the ground at less than 1 yard. Any closer and my front foot would have been in danger. 47# MOAB with cedar arrow.
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4 yards. this is what turned me onto traditional. Spent 750 bucks on my wheelie bow with all the gadgets to shoot a deer close enough to kill with a baseball bat. Loving it now
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3 yards on a spike out of a ground blind and 5 yds or less on this one from another ground blind in a small hollow.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/hunting%20stuff/bigbuckbest.jpg)
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Oops, we now have 2 threads on this subject. Here is the other.
The other thread by this name (http://tradgang.com//noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=041635)
Can somebody combine them into one? :help:
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2 feet- 9 point whitetail around 120 inches...he came out of a pine thicket- I just happened to be stalking the edge of the pines where they changed to hardwoods.
A doe had run across the open woods behind me, around 100 yards so I turned around and backed up to a tree, glassing the area she ran through when I heard footsteps behind me, coming my way.
I put my binocs down, grabbed my bow handle (whenever I stand still, I always nock an arrow and put it in my arrow holder so its ready) and this big bodied dude came by in that low crawl kind of like a scent-trailing dog walk/runs, you know? That doe running across was ahead of him in the pine thicket and I guess when he heard her bust out he figured he would cut the corner on her.
I ran the arrow through him almost shooting straight down- leaning over to get through both lungs- he went down in 20 yards.
Love will do it to a man every time!
Everything I shoot is 25 yards and under, but the most common yardage is under 5 yards because I hunt pigs a lot and like to get real close on them.
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Here are the closest shots I can think of.
Carp - several close enogh I had to be carefull not to hit my feet
Snow shoe Hare - 3 feet
White tail 7 pt - 5 yards from a tree stand
Mule deer 4x4 - 8 yards as it stood up in its bed
All with recurve bows
By the way, my closest miss was about 10 yards at a cow elk after it left its bed - you have to wonder...
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From the ground I shot a small buck from 3 yards. From a tree I shot several staight down. I don't take the straight down shots any longer as they tend to be the ones that give me the highest percentage of poor trails and/or unrecovered game. On the ground I will take them as close as they will come...from a tree I prefer the 15-20 yard range which almost always gives me two holes and very short blood trails.
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Hog at 3 yds and doe at 6 yds both on the ground. Stalked the hog, shaggy suit setting on ground for doe.
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Between 5 and 8 yards on Hogs on the ground.
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I shot a rabbit one time that ran up and stopped just about a foot in front of me.
A Muskrat at 6 ft with a rubber blunt, feet in the air stone cold dead.
Whitetail doe 2 yds. from base of tree.
I once touched a yearling doe as she walked by a tree I was standing behind, not really the best thing to do she came unglued.
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This year I stalked up to a round bale that 2 antelope where laying behind to stay out of the sun. The wind was good and I got right next to the bale and then drew and leaned around till I saw butt then guts then chest and let go. It was a 2 step shot.
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I shot a doe on the ground at less than 2 yards. I was kneeling behind a log and she was standing on the other side within arm reach. When she came around the end of the log the John Schultz longbow took over from there. Now that was fun!
Bowwalker >>>>>============>
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My first deer at the tender age of 12 was shot at less than 5 feet. I've killed two feral boars in self defense at point blank range aka just before they tore at me with their tusks meaning 1 foot or less.
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Timber Rattler @ 10' with a rubber blunt & longbow. Gophers in back yard @ 5-10'. Taught me how to get the rattler. Frank
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10ft on a 5pt walking to my tree stand
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javelina at about 10 feet...
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This hog at 4 feet, was thinking that i need to pet her or shoot her
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Bull moose @ 3 yards.
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A beaver that was swimming along the bank I was kneeling on. It was soo close I wondered if the arrow left the string or the string "pushed" the arrow through it! That shot was less than a yard. Shot my first whitetail bow buck with an old Howatt Hunter recurve and a Bear Razorhead at 2-3 yards...right between my feet as I pearched in an apple tree. I was just a kid and can remember that like it just happened.
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Most my shots are between 10 and 20 yards but here are a few of my closer ones.
Still-hunt and stalk;
WT 6 point, 10 feet, heart, coming off bed
WT spike, 8 feet, lungs, turned when it saw me
WT spike, 6 feet, lungs, bedded
WT doe, 4 feet, straight on chest shot, I saw it coming, dropped to my knees on the trail and drew back. It walked right to me.
Tree Stand;
WT 4 point, 5 paces from tree
Blind;
Never really used one
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Blackbear 5 yards (doublebull blind)
Whitetail 3 yards (double bull blind)
shot a few more whitetails under 10
Hog 5 yards (stalking)
Everything else 10 yards or more.
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Sheesh, I was gonna brag about my ten yard shot on a mtn goat but that doesn't hold a candle to what most of you fellas have posted.
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4 yards with a bear recurve. Was my first elk with a bow and it happend so fast that I was only able to pull the bow back maybe to 35 #. The arrow burried almost to the feathers. Thats when I realized the importance of a two blade broad head (sharp)
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Young IN six point 5" spread, that stepped out from behind a tree at @10 feet, just as I came to full draw with my Damon Howatt Hunter 65#, 2117 Eaton and sallelite three blade head. He went ten yards and laid down. The guy at the check station said he still had his milk teeth. That was my third deer, first in Indiana.
Pesky stray dog with a blunt at @5 feet as he sneaked around the side of the house while I was practicing.
Michael :thumbsup:
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Small whitetail buck 2 steps in my compound days. Small buck 3 steps was my first traditional buck. Never looking back
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10 ft 6" I measured from the base of the tree to the foot prints in the leaves.
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@1800# bull moose at 6 steps.
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If I am 6 steps from a Bull Moose something has gone terribly wrong.
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Urus I have never hunted them but 10 yards on a mountain goat seems like quite a feat.
5 yards on a bunch of hogs. I like to sneak up on them while they are asleep.
5 yards from a box blind on deer.
Several deer about 3 yards from base of tree but the shot was a lot farther due to stand height.
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One hog @ 24' and one @ 8 feet last weekend!!! It was the first hunt with my BW PL other than rabbit hunting! This is my first year with trad gear and I got 3 hogs and 1 deer this year and the furthest shot was @12 yards. I LOVE trad bow hunting!!!!
thanks
citori
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My First deer I shot from 5 yards out of a treestand.
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my trad kills are limited but starting to add up but all are close, the closest are:
Carp at about 3 feet, almost straight down while standing in a canoe that drifted over top of it laying in the sun. (just had to make sure the shot made it out of the canoe)
A cottontail at about 5 feet, it came out the wrong side of the briars (wrong side if you were the bunny).
My doe this past fall was about 5 yards from the base of my tree.
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3yards,sleeping hog.put arrow thru center of breast bone as it was on it's side asleep.Took place on a 8ft wide bench on the side of a bluff.I stood there for a while before I shot, wondering what was going to happen on that bluff when the pig woke up with a arrow in it's chest.took me an hour to sneek this close and I wasn't gonna waste it,so I letr rip.kinda neet to watch a 200lb hog bail off a 40ft bluff with an arrow center mass betweem its legs.
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Hey Guys,
Eight yards on a black bear.
Lobo in West Virginia
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Whitetail one yard from my tree two dirrerent times.
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closest was a nice 9 point that was checking out a scrape under a branch in the same tree that i was sitting under!
it was about a yard. it was almost like shooting a 3-d target too close in wich you are afraid that your nock end will smack your bow hand after the shot!
but dont think that all the close ones are easy!
i let this small yearling pass by a couple of times last season and i thought...if he walks by one more time i will let him have it...
well he came by..and i had a couple of "practice draws , and counting coups moments....but when he walked by me at about 5 steps i flat out missed him! i dont even know what happend during the shot. even the little ones get me worked up!lol