Closest hunting shot you've had.

[meathead]

Killed a bear at about 7 or 8 ft. a couple years ago at Bearquest.   I was in a treestand but if you have ever been there you know Tom doesn't set them very high.  I think the stand was maybe about 6 ft. high.

[Ray Hammond]

A 6x7 elk- 8 to 10 feet
More hogs than I can remember at four or five yards
A whitetail buck on the ground at five yards
Many does that close

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I have had many, many deer within arms reach but like a stupid kid was always looking for big horns. Now I wish I could get one in within 20 yards and offer a shot.  Usually its the latter that gives me problems, but next year is my year.

With that being said......

I shot a frog at 3 yards. I stalked up within inches and then backed off because i was too close  

[Irish]

Doe at 2 yds, buck at 5 yds.  Havi at 4 yds.

[Shedrock]

I love it! Great little stories all!

This is what bowhunting is about to me, how close you can get, not how far you can shoot.

[LC]

Closest for me was a small buck at about 3' on the ground. I had went hunting when the wind gusts were unreal. Decided to ground hunt, soon gave up and decided it was a waste of time so I just stretched out laying on the ground with my bow leaning against the tree at my feet. Here comes a small 8 pt walks right down the hill and stops beside me. I was laughing inside thinking any minute now he's gona make me out and bust out of there. Heck it's the first time I was looking up at a buck and see his man hood!  Then I got worried his busting out might involve hurting me! He slowly looked at me laying there, then at my bow leaning against the tree and then just started walking off. Something clicked in me, figured what the heck jumped up grabbed my bow as the arrow was already nocked and fully expected to see him 50 yards farther down the hill. Suprised to see him standing on the other side of the tree my bow had been leaning on, drew back and let him have it. He never knew what hit him and ran down the hill and stopped at about 30 yards. Looked back up the hill towards me as if to say "what just happened" and then tipped over right there. I always called him my "laying down" buck.

[kennym]

I guess a doe at 10 ft, or a coyote at 20 ft.

Both taken from the ground.

Both were over the top for exciting!!

[tradgreenhorn]

A wild pig at about 10 feet.

[Bill Sant]

Black bear at about 3 feet.  He was a lot closer before I shot.  Had to BAP him on the nose to get his head out of the blind. Shot him as he retreated.

[owlbait]

4 yards ground shot, 4 yards treestand, my closest "almost" shot, inches from the end of my arrow as a big doe ran 300 yards across a hayfield and right past the big round bale I was behind! By the time she cleared the end of the bale I didn't have time to release!!  :D  What a rush.

[Bill Sant]

Hey Larry, LKH.  I sure hope you didn't put your caribou tag on that bou,,,,,,sounds like a clear cut case of DOLOP.   LOL ( It is an Alaskan inside joke for you guys outside)  Defense of life or property

[BOWMARKS]

[Horne Shooter]

Mark Horne called in a 4x4 elk for me.  He walked by at 2 yards....as he got past me I shot him at 4 yards.

[BOWMARKS]

[Richie]

This thread is awesome. Thanks for the stories.

[BOWMARKS]

Originally posted by Shedrock:
I love it! Great little stories all!

This is what bowhunting is about to me, how close you can get, not how far you can shoot.

Im with you all the way.        

Oopps dont know what happened first times??

[J.T.]

Shot a doe afew years ago straight down arrow went through the spine centered the heart and out the bottom of the chest, she went straight down and never moved I had to jump  off of the last step in order not to step on her.

[3arrows]

Nice buck 3 corn rolls over, back in 69.

[Night Wing]

A deer at 10 yards.

[wildgame]

Rabbit 3 yds!