Just for Fun

[DanD]

This year, 30 yards, 300 Win.  I was no more than 400 yards from where I had left the truck.  I was still on the road just walking along and there he was.

 

[Orygun]

X-12 archery 1994. Spend 2 hr moving nion bachelor herd of 6 bucks. Get close enough to hear them break wind.  12 yds from 4X5, antlers sticking way out past the ears, gut damn near dragging on the ground.  I draw back, pick a small tuft dead center of lungs, he's broadside. I put my pin right on that spot. The arrow flies. Arrow heads right over his spine. The arrow hits a pine tree, the buck jumps and runs past me at ten yards straight downhill. Still get nightmares about it.

 

[Passthru]

 Was bow hunting and some buddies ran a doe right on top of me,i shot her with my bow from a standing position as she ran by me,about 5 foot hehe. It was complete skill,no accident...yeah right!

 

[Sporty]

I've been lucky enough to take 6 bucks in 4 years all @ less than 80 yards. The closest being about 30 yards but there were 3 other bucks closer than that (15 Yards or so) but they were smaller  so I took the bigger one @ 30. Oh yeah, 30.06.
Good luck to all,
Sporty

 

[mudwalker]

It is a long story but the shot was point blank... not a happy hunter about it either.  If you care the story is one Speckmisser has posted before at http://www.elwing.com/hunting

 

[raghorn]

7 yards fornt chest shot with my hoyt 3x4 guestamating 180lbs live weight pretty good ha,WRONG could'nt recover him had 4 hunters helping search ' til dusk,the blood trail led to the lake one hunter stated that he probably jumped in and tried to swim across.thanked them for helping and choked back some tears departed ways.

 

[davered1]

My closest shot was 10 yards with my 30/06, It was this 4X4 I patterned with my camera. He was a nice enough deer that I couldn't pass him up.

Him in velvet

Him out of velvet

game over

 

[arizona jim]

Nice buck & nice pictures Davered1 !!!

Thanks for sharing !

 

[Brian S]

  My closest shot was on a small 3x3 in Wrightwood in 99. I had missed the opener for some reason and didn't realize it til wednesday. Took thursday off and headed up there. I got there about 45 minutes before it started burning daylight and damn near got ran over by a deer on the way to my stand. It was too dark to see how big it was and I had to catch my breath that guy scared the crap out of me. Walked about another 75 yards and sat down up against a forked trunk pine. The woods were pretty thick in here so the sunrise didn't quite poke through enough to see this buck in my scope.
    I had my grandfathers old 6.5/.308 with a fixed 6x lyman scope with not much in the light gathering dept. The buck was about 50 yards away running the trail toward my spot. At 30yards I whistled and he stopped in a group of trees I tried to get him in the scope. The cross hairs are so fine on it I couldn't see where they were on his shoulder. I picked it up looked into the skyline and back down on his shoulder and bang. He reared up and kicked, ran a 30 foot, 180 right toward me and stopped in the open. The second shot broke his neck and down he went. Turns out the first one skinned his brisket luckily he ran right toward me for the finishing shot.
    I had him gutted and at the Wrightwood fire department by 7:45, the firemen acted like they had never seen a deer hunter before. Its funny how every deer has some unique series of events that if it didn't happen just right you would have gone home empty handed.
Brian

 

[nimrod]

d-19,  I was sitting backed up to some oakbrush. I heard alot of rustling behind me, tall forkie walked up behind me, at 4 paces. We stared at each other and somehow I got the TC up, pulled the hammer back, and......, well I figured he saw and HEARD enough. I wish I could do something about that hammer noise.                        
                                            Mac

 

[Rimrock]

I heard my partner shoot downhill from me. I was behind a two foot pine tree and looked around to see a doe and a forked horn running right at me. I knew it would be close. Just didn't know which side of the tree he would chose. When he came by I think I had to back the barrel of the .243 up to keep from ramming him. His chin hit the ground and plowed a furrow.

Play fair.

 

[Speckmisser]

Hey Nimrod,

I never shot a TC, so I'm not sure if it's the same.  But with both my Winchester 94 and my BLR, if I hold the trigger in while bringing back the hammer with my thumb, it's pretty darned quiet.  Of course, this may not be a safe practice for the range, but when you're locked onto your deer, it can be effective.  

Oh yeah, just remember to let off the trigger before you let off the hammer, and make sure it's in the sticking place.

(Edited by Speckmisser at 7:33 am on Feb. 10, 2002)

 

[Blacktaildeerhunter]

 The closest shot I ever made was 3 yards. I encountered the buck face to face, he didn't even try to run, all he did was stare. It was been the biggest forkhorn I have seen 20 in. tall 25 in. wide. the only problem is that I blew out his neck, so I didn't get it mounted.

 

[hogassin]

last week a buck popped out @ 10 yrds from the thickest brush...I was smoking, standing in a revine.. busted...holding bow but couldnt draw... we stared at each other for eternity. I dicided to step out & draw..buck turned and ran 20 yrds and stopped I sent one flying and my broadhead hit his shoulder and fell apart...no kill...I have taken a buck at 30 yards and a pig @ 10....also had pigs bail out of mansinita 3 feet away....

 

[ccp123]

today!
15 yards 120# sow.
thick stuff straight up and down!
Arrow planted perfect.
2 hrs in p/oak over my head on the side of a cliff and hot!
I Gave it my best,I really did.

 

[gtimo98]

Whole group of pigs came in around me just in the thicket about ten yards away. Felt real lonely all by myself for a minute or two until one finally came out about fifteen yards away. Dropped her in her tracks with my winchester 1300 winchester and winchester platinum tip sabots. This was forty five minutes into a five day hog hunt last year in Texas.

 

[ORElkBow]

My closest was in 2003. 7 yrds straight on shot right through the chest cavity into the pump house of a 5x5 Rosie. He never knew what hit him. As he took off, I kept calling and he stopped at 53 yrds with blood just pouring out. Then he turned broadside to look at me and I sent one more through the heart.

I was shooting a PSE Baby G-Force at that time, with 100 gr. 4 blade Muzzies.

 

[larrysogla]

This was our very first ever hog hunt in my friend's ranch in Houston, Texas. The ranch owner said that he hunted hogs at night with a flashlight taped to his 12 gauge Remington 1100 shotgun loaded with slugs. So we decided to do the same. I had brought my 12 gauge Remington 1100 and also my Browning BAR .338 WM with a 4X riflescope with an illuminated red dot(it was an old style Japanese Haiwa?? brand 4X riflescope with an illuminated red dot instead of the regular crosshairs that I bought used for $120 for this upcoming night hog hunts in Houston). The first night, we were up all night under a full moon in one of the tree stands and these particular cluster of treestands was about 5 feet away from the neighbor's fence line and at about 4 AM when I looked again at the neighbor's grassy meadow.....this black rock that was not there before suddenly materialized out of nowhere and I soon realized that it was a huge hog(guestimated to be somewhere around 300 lbs.) and not a boulder. This huge hog moved very slowly and stealthily and very quietly slipped thru a 3 foot gap in the fence and was right under my buddy's tree stand...........but because it was directly under him.........he couldn't see to fire his 12 gauge Beretta shotgun loaded with slugs. The hog smelled us and reversed direction and as stealthily was slipping back thru the fence gap when I turned on my flashlight taped to my shotgun barrel................and pointed the dark shape of my shotgun barrel and fired while the hog was still in the fence gap. The distance was about 15 yards. The muzzle flash blinded me and I did not see what or where the hog went...........and when we went down to spotlight for blood stains.........we could not see any blood stains. We concluded that I missed the shot after searching the neighbor's meadow for about an hour with spotlights.
The very next night(this time I switched to my BAR .338WM with the illuminated red dot)......we were up all night again in the same fenceline treestands and at about 4 AM again we saw and heard this hog approach and then start noisily searching thru the underbrush below us. We could not get a clear shot as this hog was moving and searching thru the underbrush very rapidly. Pretty soon this hog went away......and then after about a few minutes I looked towards the access trail and there very clearly in the moonlight was a hog at about 25 yards distance and trotting at a fast clip heading towards the underbrush and will disappear into the underbrush in about 3 seconds. I instantly shouldered my BAR .338WM and painted the hog mid-torso with the red dot and instantly fired. I had that dead-on feeling that I hit the hog where I was aiming mid-torso. With the factory muzzle brake.....the recoil was mild and also there was no muzzle flash to blind me and because of this I could see thru the 4X scope that the hog sprinted like greased lightning at the shot and disappeared thru the waist high hayfield. At daybreak we went searching more thoroughly for bloodstains because I insisted that I hit the hog and we finally found the blood trail and marked it with toilet paper. The blood trail went into the waist high hayfield and made a wide u-turn and went back into the underbrush where we found the dead sow. The 120 lb. dry sow was hit in the liver blowing a golf ball sized exit hole. That was a 25 yard split second snap shot made under the moonlight that hit exactly where I was aiming for..........in a swift motion of shouldering, painting the red dot and pulling the trigger all done in split seconds...............just as I have practiced countless number of times shouldering, painting the red dot or the cross hairs(on my other rifle) and pulling the trigger(of course on an empty chamber and uncocked trigger so as not to eventually crystallize and break the fragile firing pin). That sow was very, very good eating.
God Bless, always
larrysogla

 

[popndrop]

i've killed many Javelina from as close as about 7 feet to as far as 800 yards - many close ones inside the 20 yard range. Still hunting in South Texas, let the Javi's feed up to you along a sendero - Mostly bow kills, a couple of .17hmr out of a Ruger pistol, a few larger caliber kills - but the bow is the most fun.