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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: gordydog on November 13, 2013, 08:55:00 PM
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What is the closest shot you have taken on a white tail deer. How did it turn out?
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I shot at a doe at about 9 or 10 yds one afternoon, and deflected off a limb I did not notice, and missed her. She made a big circle and proceeded to walk past me the second time at 4yds. My shot was true and she did not go 40yds!
Bisch
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4 Steps, on the ground,35 yard recovery
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I have shot several from a stand at 4-5 yds. Even I can't miss at that range. Every one of them went down quick.
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4 Yards. Dead deer!
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3 yards. Turned out real nice :)
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I also had a 4 yard shot, on the ground as I squirreled around a huge white oak as the buck walked by. Had to shoot the very front of the shoulders because it started to react to me as it emerged from behind the tree. Ended up shooting him again 55 yards, though it would not have been necessary.
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Shot a nice buck from the ground at 8 steps. He went about 50 yards.
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11 paces. Sitting on a blow-down to eat my lunch at noon.
Turned out well after 35 yards of trailing. You can see the log behind me in this image.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Bowhunting/deer1b.jpg)
Even closer was a shot at a doe - maybe 6 yards below my tree-stand. Also turned out well.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Bowhunting/HPIM2644.jpg)
Note the exit wound on the bottom. 20 foot blood-trail.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Bowhunting/HPIM2648.jpg)
Not shown is the large buck I tried at who was almost at my feet below me. Must have grazed the spine. He dropped, and when he lay still I tied my bow to the haul line and lowered it. He regained his feet and ran into a swamp. Never recovered him after two and a half days of searching. Lesson learned - shoot until they are out of range if you can.
I prefer now to shoot at 15 to 20 yards and try to involve both lungs. Seems to work very well.
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2 1/2 corn rows between tip of arrow and her and quartering away a bit. For more times than I could remember she would come out of the corn and look directly at me in a treestand to see if I was there. Boy did I fool her that day! She ran 40 yards and expired 10 yards from the trail that runs thru the pasture. Easy drag. Dave
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Mooseman that is a big doe! Glad you finally pulled one over on her!
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A couple of yards and I somehow managed to shoot high. Spine shot and the deer fell in his tracks. Last year I missed on at the same distance in the same stand! I had some serious issues last year...
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I shot two at the beach where I almost had to lean back to get the arrow to clear the shelf. Maybe one yard from my feet to theirs. Not skill as much as just a jungle to hunt in
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Never shot a whitetail but did shoot a muley at about 4 yards once. It went about 50 yards and piled up.
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About 5' and it was a miss :banghead:
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18"-I had to lean backwards to draw my bow. It was a small buck and went about 15 yards and dropped.
Hap
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I've shot 3 Elk, a mule deer and 1/2 dozen whitetail at 5 yards or less and all with great results.
Joe
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The buck in my avatar at 7 steps. Went about 90 yds.
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5 yards this year. Turned out well, got my first traditional kill.
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I`ve shot one that was smelling my pull up rope hanging from the stand.
My shot average from the last 5 years is under 10 yards.RC
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Hot Hap wow, 18". Were you in a tree or on the ground
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Most of my kills have been under 10 yards the one this year was maybe 3 closest ever just far enough out from under stand to shoot it between the shoulder blades.
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4 yards and I remember it like it was an hour ago... Wait it was an hr ago. Grunted in a small buck. Arrow red tip to tip but didn't fall within site. Gonna give him a few hrs.
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About 7 yards on the ground. 10 or so from a stand.
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3 yards on the ground!
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Was actually my first traditional kill... Doe in a corn field, bedded, 1 1/2 rows away...
Windy day, corn was about to be harvested, very noisy which made for pretty easy stalking as long as I kept the wind in my favor. Just poked my head through a row and looked up and down... when I got to the end of the field I'd walk back around keeping the non winded side clean of scent. I was working from right to left with my passes as the wind was hitting me in my left eye as I went through the rows. I spotted her on about my 6th pass through the field, and she was actually to my right, bedded... I'd passed within 10 or 12 yards of her on my previous pass... but on this pass I just backed up about 10 rows and moved down to my right to where she was bedded and moved in very slowly row by row until I saw her again. With how windy it was I tried every row to get a clean shot once I found her again, but couldn't until there was only 1 row between us. She was curled up in a ball with her chest facing me... maybe 4 feet... she went about 20 yards and must have stopped or fell with all the blood in the area where she lay.
I'd tried this tactic with the wheel bow but I kept getting caught drawing... That is why I started using my Dad's recurve (50# Bear 76'er spray painted camo) and work the fields during midday between morning and evening hunts. The windier and dryer the better... Covers your movements and inherent noise you will make going through rows... Oh, this particular hunt was when I was 15 living in southern Minnesota... I can remember it like it was this morning...
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Three feet in a cornfield. I had to lean back while I drew so I wouldn't poke him with the broadhead. Walked up on me while I was working my way to several does just out of the corn in a beet field. The outcome was a fat five point.
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My first harvest was a spike buck.I was in a pine tree maybe 8 feet high on a big limb,he walked under me and I knelt down on my knee. The arrow was probably 5 feet from the deer when I shot. Just learning and missing several,I wasn't gone to miss this time..
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Shot a doe at 4 yds. I have shot a few at around 8 to 10 yds.
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8ft shot on a 5pt on the ground while walking in to my stand...40yd recovery
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About 10 feet in a stand, which was 2 days ago - had a buck in KS who was licking the branches on the field edge I was sitting in. I shot a little high, but got him!
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I had a 6 point about 8 feet away from the ground last Sat. but I did not shoot...there were two 8 points looking at me!