Now not how far but how close a shot have you made?

I was in a duck blind with a guy who hit a teal with the end of his double barrel as they flew tword us. One of those stories that no one believes.
 
forgot one

I hunted released hungarian partridge a few years ago with two friends. One bird got kicked up and flew parallel to our line. I don't think he was more than 5 feet from the end of my 12 gauge when I pulled the trigger. I found the wad in his chest cavity. Feathers came down for about 10 minutes.
 
Boar Hog with a 12 guage. Too close since he cut me after knocking me down. Pushed him off with the barrel and pulled the trigger. I have an awsome scar that I would love to show-off, but this is a PG rated forum and you do not want to see that part of my body. :D When we cleaned him the white buffer stuff around the buckshot was in him.
 
5 or 6 feet, running Whitetail doe, 12ga 00 buck.

The thing ran past broadside, but fell facing away from me with a golf ball sized wet hole in her neck.



I too have found a wad in a dead Hun. I got on him real quick when I was about 15 and just couldn't tell my finger not to pull the trigger in time.
 
I tried to shoot a hog that was about 10 ft away from me with a .270 but missed like a big dog I still don't really understand how. I had a armodillo chew on my shoe laces while sitting in a chair next to some brush but didn't shoot him and I had a Fox walk over my leg while sitting with my back to a tree in a makeshift ground blind. I barely saw the fox untill he was right there I was amazed because I didn't even know we had Fox's in Texas at the time and shooting it never crossed my mind.
 
Bout 12' on a 90 or so lb doe from my treeestand. Last day of BP getting dark no bucks....hey watch your feet.....aim carefully...right through the spine and cliped a rib a couple inches off centerline on the way out. No ruined meat. Dropped right there. Rifle was a 50 tc with 370 Maxi over 80 gr of 777. Never found the bullet.
 
About 4 feet on a deer. When I was a kid I once jumped a doe hiding in a clump of bushes. I was mabey 12 years old, new to hunting, and filled with nervous energy. I shot her in the chest just as she got to her feet. She fell straight back down and for a few seconds, I thought the doe disapeared.:eek:

I was using #1 buckshot, but at that range, it acted like a slug. I doubt she knew what hit her.
 
I've had several "could have" opportunities at ten feet or so. Deer sometimes figured it was safe under my treestand. And I tippy-toed up to within about ten feet of a fat little eight-pointer, one time, but I'd already killed a bigger buck that morning--so I just hit him on the rump with a rock.

Shortest kill? I ambled across a rocky creek bottom and as I topped the far side, horns came up out of the grass. I dunno; 25 or 30 yards at most. All he could see of me was head, shoulders and rifle. When he raised a tad further and I saw how big his "swole-up" neck was, it was, "Damn! Blam!"

Walking quietly is Good. :D

Art
 
Grey squirrel, just the other day, 6 feet!

I was walking up the dried crick bottom to my deer stand, and this squirrel is "Comin' right for me!" It did make me think of that killer squirrel thread a while back LOL.:p

Anyway, he stops about 5 yards away from me and stops. I very rapidly pull an arrow out of my quiver and nock it. Somehow the critter never even noticed. He then continues even closer to me. And draw and nail him. 2 steps! LOL
 
23 days ago (Sept 29th), I shot a mule deer from 30 paces. The 130gr .270 bullet went right through and out the other side. Exit wound was almost 2" in diameter. 3,000+ foot pounds of energy broke the spinal cord, even though it wasn't shot in the backbone. The bullet probably totally fragmented into several pieces and came out the other side like buckshot. The deer folded to the ground like a bag of dirt. Had I known the deer was coming in so close, I would have just pulled out my .357 revolver and done it that way.
 
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