What's the CLOSEST you've ever shot a deer?

About 40 feet almost straight down into the top of the shoulders and came out the brisket. I was on a cliff and a little 2 point muley let me see him below me, oops. The gun was a .54 caliber hawken with a patched round ball.
 
I was hunting in Harper, TX on a patch of land that my ex-wife's cousins took care of. I was in the blind, and somehow **cough cough** fell asleep, and I was awaken by the feeder going off. When I came to, focused, and looked around, there were about 50 deer standing 20 yards off. I looked for the biggest deer I could find when I heard something sniffing next to me. There was a buck literally looking right next to me about 2 foot away. I couldve taken my knife out and cut his throat, he was that close. I didnt move, and let him walk in front of the blind. A good 10-pointer. He wasnt 15' in front of the muzzle of my rifle before I popped him. So close, I didnt even really have to aim. After a 150 grain slug from my .300 Mag, he didnt move another inch. The otehr deer jsut stood there and kept on eating, like they didnt care. I rechambered a round, picked out a doe, and laid her out as well. Two shots, two deer, two minutes, two tags filled.
 
I sorry I cant get in on this, I have never shot a deer, I love small game hunting, and turkey, but once I hit one with my chevy s-10 at point blank bumper and knocked him about 40 feet, thats all I got :D
 
two hunting seasons ago i jumped up an antelope my uncle had wounded about an hour earlier, since i had already harvested my antelope i wasnt carrying a gun, my uncle shot his 3 shots left in his gun at it ( he is not known for marksmanship) since the antelope was moving slow and we had no more bullets we ran it down and i killed it with my knife.. i recon thats pretty close
 
I was pig hunting on the Tejon Ranch just north of Los Angeles. I was walking across a hill when a cow elk walked out of a brush thicket 10 yards below me... She never knew we were there...
 
Four meters. We paced it out. It was in heat and had come crashing through the brush into my back yard. I didn't know what the heck was going on, and I grabbed my gun.

It burst through the brush and I shot. It went about six steps before falling.

Funny sidenote: a few years ago, I was shooting with friends at a rural outdoor range. In the middle of a string, a buck walked right in front of the backstop. Everyone just froze. After about twenty seconds, he noticed all the humans with guns and bolted.

It was odd that nobody shot, but when we talked about it later, everyone seemed to think that doing so would have been somehow "wrong."
 
Does hitting them with spit count? Had a stupid spike buck below me in the creek under my stand. I was tempted to spit on his ears - "hmm smells like human!" I let him go.:)
 
How about point-blank? Had a broken scope mount on my 7mm the night before I left for a hunt. Had to take my .32 Winchester instead. Tied my guilly suit full of orange marking ribbon, flopped out at the edge of a willow stand, and had a young whitetail walk right up, sniff me, and then graze right next to me. No aiming necessary, I literally scorched hair on his side with hot gas from the muzzle.
 
In the middle of a string, a buck walked right in front of the backstop.

It was odd that nobody shot, but when we talked about it later, everyone seemed to think that doing so would have been somehow "wrong."
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I shot three deer with-in 25 feet of me. The first one was a doe, the biggest of the three. I shot her and she fell, the two yearlings with her ran off. Then they stopped and came back to her. I shot one of them and then the third one ran off a ways. When it walked back to the two dead deer I shot that one also.
The two were most definitely yearlings and probably dressed out to no more than 80 pounds. But they tasted the best. The does probably dressed out at around 120 pounds.
 
last year was the closest with a rifle at 20feet (paced it off). was a nice big arizona coues buck that followed my scent trail right to me (from behind).

with archery shot a big buck that was standing right under my stand (i was 15ft up), but he was 0 feet away my tree. I had to lean way out on my safety harness and nailed him righ between the shoulders and hit the spine and instant KO! luckily i had actually practiced this type of shot a week before, because I had a lot of big does the year before stand or bed under my tree and didn't shoot the previous year because I never tried a shot like that and didn't want to wound a deer.
 
Closest deer Ive shot was at about 40yrds but an uncle of mine got one at about 25ft a few years ago when ran out of the woods during a drive.
 
Well seening how both times ive shot at dee ive missed, the closest ive ever gotten to a deer was about a lil less than 5 yards and it was a doe, I was sitting in a ground blind i had built she didnt even see me. I didnt shoot her too small. and ive had a deer almost jump on me when i was walking threw some high grass
 
About 20 feet. 300WM. I was in transit on my way back to camp and stopped to sit and eat an apple in fairly dense wooded area. Late morning about 11 am.
 
20 yards, spike buck. He had jumped the fence 65 yards in front of me and was walking right toward me limping a little, it was so small I put my gun down. Then he came over the little rise in front of my blind and I realized it was the deer that had been shot at by a black powder hunter and he had blown the knee off. Its leg was only held on by a small strip of hide and I knew it was a dead deer so I picked up my 308 and snapped off a shot, blew his heart apart. I apologized to the butcher for bringing in such a small deer but he laughed and said it was pretty good sized compared to some that had been brought in that day. I guess it was just baby deer day.
 
8 paces

On the ground.

Leaning against a tree.

Mature woods.

12 ga. 1100 fully rifled barrel, open sights.

'bout half hour earlier fired on a buck (nice one too) about 75 yards away, and watched it haul a** out the woods and across the bean field, about 400 yards into woods on other side and heard 3 shots.

Leaning against the tree wishing he'd been closer for about 1/2 hour when from behind the tree comes a little spike buck heading for the bean field.

Only thing . . . he had to get past me.

He didn't.

When friends came up and saw where the deer lay, they couldn't believe that I had not dragged it there.

Nope. That's where it fell. 8 paces.

One shot.

Rmocarsky
 
Don't know if sitting in a tree counts as a blind or stand but I took whitetail spike from 10 yards with a 130gr. 270 win Nosler PARTITION. At that range the bullet didn't seem to open up much and the deer ran about 50 yards before dropping. I always smile over the irony of having a flat-shooting 270 and finding my target of opportunity right under my feet.
 
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