Just for Fun

[arizona jim]

Alot of times hunters get into discussions on just how far their longest shot was. Just for fun what was your closest shot on elk. How well did you do at controlling your scent, noise & movement ? What weapon were you using ?

On elk, for me it was 40 yds. - 30-06  180grn Fail Safe bullet.

 

[arizona jim]

Alot of times hunters get into discussions on their longest shots. Just for fun what was your closest shot on Hogs Or Javelina. How well did you control your scent, noise, & movement ?  What weapon were you using ?

For me it was 15yds. S&W 6" .357 mag  180grn. Win. Supremes

 

[arizona jim]

Alot of times you hear hunters discussing how long of shots they made. Just for fun what was the closest shot you made on mule deer. How well did you control your scent, noise, & movement ?  What weapon were you using ?

For me it was 7 yds. PSE compound bow - 125 grn. Thunderheads.

 

[Speckmisser]

How about the closest shot I've missed?

Sitting on a hilltop at sunrise, with a spike feeding on acorns about five yards from me.  Don't know how he didn't smell me, except to think they've smelled so many humans there all the time...  anyway, he's browsing, stops and stares down the hill (my blind spot)...  he freaks and runs practically over me.  As he does, I hear something behind me.  I can't get the -06 around quietly enough, so I ease the 9mm out.  I'm 10 feet from the drop off, so whatever it is is coming right out on top of me.  

A decent sized buck materializes, we make eye contact, then I whip the pistol down to shoot...and drop the hammer while I'm still coming down on him.  He disappears, then reappears 50 yards away and headed up the side of the canyon.  I can't get another shot on him.

A few minutes later I hear a shot from the road, and a muffled "I'll be damned."  Another hunter had just got out of his truck and loaded his rifle when he said the buck ran out right behind the truck.  He didn't even have to drag it.

Closest success was on a whitetail so close I couldn't see his whole neck through the scope... but that's another story for another day.  

 

[Rimrock]

On elk, it was about 10 yards. Bear razor head on the end of an Easton aluminum shaft.

Play fair

 

[wapatiwhacker]

10 to 12 feet with my .44 Colt Anaconda. Handloads with 265 gr Hornady flat points. Shot a 285 lb sow on the run with the rest of her "friends" as they blasted on by me coming over a hill. They were spooked by some buddies of mine and I had no idea they were coming my way. Talk about pucker factor! it was off the scale!

 

[Jackalope]

My closest was about 40 yards.  He was my first buck.  Not a big story on the shot but he was a great stalk.  I spotted him once with 3 doe but couldn't get a shot....this was early afternoon on the last day of the season.  They saw me, got up out of their beds and proceeded downhill, towards water from what I figured.  I cut up over two fingers and then headed downhill hoping to "cut them off at the pass".  To my surprise, it worked and we came out at the same time and stared at each other.  He was just quartering to my right and towards me so I put it on his right chest and dropped the hammer with the .270.  I looked to where he had been and saw nothing!!!!  My thought?  "oh hell, I've got a wounded buck!!!"  I got down to where he had been, saw nothing but tracks going in all different directions but no blood.  I then looked 5 yards to my right and there he lay, right where I had shot him.  I didn't see him after the shot because the heart shot had made him do a pirouette (sp?)......well, he did a little spin and landed on his back, with his antlers in the dirt.  

Anyways, no 5-yarders for me but that's my story.....

Mike

 

[songdog]

Bobcat with a .22 Hornet at about 10 feet.  I didn't see him until I stood up to leave and he was crouched just out of sight to my left.  Kind of makes you wonder what would have happened if I gave it an extra couple of minutes?

 

[MAC]

.357 mag into the ocular cavity of a 200lb hog while running along side at about 4 feet. worst part was i was aiming for its ear-hole. it was my first pig hunt ever, around 3 or 4 years ago. I've never shot IPSC, so i had never practiced running and shooting at the same time before. anyway, if anybody is wondering, yes, there were dogs involved in the hunt. neat experience to run along side a trotting boar, but not looking to repeat that episode too soon.

 

[Blacktail Buck]

My closest shot was on a small forkie Blacktail, I had taken a side road on my way home from hunting the weekend do to major road construction.  I get about 23 miles into the 26 mile bypass when I see a logging operation, with the loader sitting right in the middle of the road.  I turned around and was heading back to the main road, as I came around a corner I see the buck run off of the road and down the side of the hill. I park my truck and head down the hill after him. I get about 300 yards down the hill and I see movement to my left, it's the little guy and he's heading right for me, I sat against a tree and waited (I had no camo on). He just kept coming toward me, I could not get a shot because the trees were so thick, as he stepped out right in front of me and stopped. I pulled the rifle up and looked thru the scope, all I could see was hair, I checked the settings and it was as low as it could go (3X). I started to panic, then I remembered I had my .45 ACP on my hip, I drew it out of the holster, chambered a round (meanwhile the buck is sitting there watching me the whole time) I pulled the gun up, placed the sight behind the front leg and eased the trigger. The buck dropped in his tracks, I paced it off at seven paces. I gutted him right there, placed him over my shoulder and headed out to the truck. ( I said he was small, at the butcher he weighed 75 pounds with no head, feet or skin) He was no monster, but he was only my second buck in 12 years of hunting.

(Edited by Blacktail Buck at 10:56 am on Feb. 1, 2002)

 

[sdbowyer]

10 feet stillhunting with a bow.

 

[lintongb]

Mine was up in Utah back in 95 I think.  I had hunted the whole week and hadn't even seen a buck.  It was the second saturday of the hunt and we were planning to head home that afternoon.  My cousin and I were hike along a bench trail on the back of Mount Nebo.  As I was cresting the ridge I could hear movement.  I stopped and looked through the weeds and brush.  I spotted a spike about 15 yards away facing me while feeding in the weeds.  I watched him for probably two minutes trying to see if there was another buck with him.  As I sat there watching him a doe down wind from me caught my scent and started taking off.  The spike rose his head and looked alerted but I already had the crosshairs on his chest.  I pulled the trigger on my .300 Wby with 180gr. bullet and the force flipped him over backwards.  Surprisingly there was much damaged meat.  The bullet traveled through his chest and exited towards his lower back.  Not a monster by any means but he sure tasted good.

 

[huntducks]

I have had several close encounters, I was hunting a X zone and siting behind some rocks over looking a dry creek that deer work up from, I was there before daylight, it was about 2 hours after sunrise when a guys shows up at the top of the Cyn. about 400-500 yds away, this buck 3x3 stands up right in front of me 30-40 yds away and looks up the Cyn at this guy then a doe, well I shot the buck the guy and his son walked down to me and both grabbed the deer and drug it back out.

Another one was when I was Antelope hunting in AZ. I was driving along a road when a heard of lopes crossed in front of me they ran in a small revine and I followed on foot about 200yds on the other side was nothing but opened space and you could see for miles, no lopes anywhere well they were standing in the revine about 20yds away with there heads down, if you can picture this I was standing above with my glasses looking out towards the far off places this went on for maybe 15min. when something told me look down, at first I saw nothing, then a few ears and then several sets of horns, I walked about as far as I could forward peaked over the top and there was 25 head of lopes just hidding, they took off running along the revine I never got a shot.

I was on a 7 day guided elk hunt in Idaho never saw a elk got back to the trail head, and started driving down this dirt road came around a bend, and there where 3 bulls standing out in this small meadow about 50yds from the road, I backed up got my gun out drove within 100yds and shot the biggest bull.

 

[MC]

A small forkhorn walked out of the brush at about 15 yds. One shot through the heart and a full 360 summersault forward and he was dead before he hit the ground. MC

 

[hronk]

About 10 yards.  Rocky Mtn Razor from a Hoyt Spectra......hronk

 

[hronk]

28yds this year in X9a.  Used a Hoyt Spectra bow with Rocky Mtn Razors.....hronk

 

[hronk]

5yds on Catalina Island with a Browning Bow and Satallite 125 gr. broadheads

 

[Hook]

I shot the one last year at about 30 yards running,  with my Rem 30-06 mountain rifle. It was'nt as easy as it may seems.  

 

[Rimrock]

Boar at about 10 feet  --  didn't think o measure --
.44 Super Blackhawk, 240 grain hand swaged solid,
23 grains of 2400 powder.

 

[DanD]

45 yards, herd of about 10 where bedded down, it was midday.  300 Win mag.  To this day I regret grabbing my gun and not my bow when I left the truck.  I never thought I'd get that close.