What was your closest shot on game?

ron w · July 24, 2020, 09:40:30 PM

Tree stand at 6 feet, bear shot at 6 yards, went 40 yards and down!! Exciting !!

Silent footed · July 25, 2020, 01:11:40 AM

When I was 16, I was sitting in a brush pile on the edge of a field at 3 yards and thought I'd try drawing my recurve back real slow on what would have been my first deer. But the instant I moved to draw she practically jumped over me. Talk about a let down...

Surprisingly, I still never really learned the value of drawing behind cover and leaning out to shoot until I started spot-and-stalk squirrel hunting with a longbow; and, to be perfectly honest, I didn't kill my first deer until after, and every deer I've killed has been on foot, on the ground, and has used every aspect of squirrel hunting I've developed, and could NOT have been successful otherwise during those hunts.

Wudstix · July 25, 2020, 05:33:08 PM

Sharpened my stalking skills chasing groundhogs in PA alfalfa fields. Low crawl and rise to shoot.

Terry Green · July 27, 2020, 08:31:49 AM

The 3 hogs I killed that charged me...
Yes, there were witnesses...

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Wudstix · July 27, 2020, 10:12:13 AM

Wow!!! Put 90 pigs on the ground and never have been charged. That probably would focus your attention.

DXH · July 27, 2020, 11:40:50 AM

Wild piggy @ 4 yards

wingnut · July 27, 2020, 12:02:15 PM

Elk 7 yds, tree stand deer 8 ft., pig on the ground barely enough to get the arrow out of the bow.

fun times.

Mike

thumper-tx · July 27, 2020, 12:15:39 PM

Caribou at 6 feet. this is what happens when you happen to hide behind the right bush.

Wudstix · July 27, 2020, 06:43:06 PM

Another candidate would be yard rat that hopped on my foam block target and shot me the bird, bad move stuck him to the fence from @7 yards.

Terry Green · July 27, 2020, 07:01:59 PM

Quote from: Wudstix on July 27, 2020, 10:12:13 AM
Wow!!! Put 90 pigs on the ground and never have been charged. That probably would focus your attention.

2 of them were wounded by others...Michael Langahans and Curt Cabrera, they just decided to take it out on me and I let em have it...died on the spotso .....the other one was just pissed I was in her bedroom....left out and passed our in 20 yards.

Wudstix · July 27, 2020, 10:14:35 PM

Had one run down the trail I was on after the arrow hit, I just stepped aside. It was dead on it's feet.

Over&Under · July 27, 2020, 11:46:26 PM

About 4 yds on a turkey
7 yds on an elk ( first with traditional gear)

Bowhunter4life · July 28, 2020, 12:28:37 AM

1 1/2 corn rows... Bedded doe in a corn field. As a kid I would stalk corn fields during mid day row by row with the wind in my favor. Peek into each row and spot the bedded deer and make the approach. Literally got up on her to where the arrow had barely left the string before it was entering her. Was my first recurve harvest.

Bowhunter4life · July 28, 2020, 12:32:43 AM

Oh, and I was another "witness" to Terry's charge shots! Solana Ranch nighttime adventures!

hunting badger · July 28, 2020, 12:36:46 AM

Whitetail deer at 10 feet and a bull elk at 13 yards!

Red Beastmaster · July 28, 2020, 07:33:14 AM

A charging groundhog literally at my feet as it came boiling up out of its hole. Micheal Jordan's vertical jump got nothing on me as I shot it straight down through the shoulders with my longbow. I landed already running down the trail.

Some say I screamed like a little girl but I don't remember that part.

After 256 sod poodles killed with stickbows that was the only one that charged.

streamguy · July 28, 2020, 08:38:27 AM

Whitetail doe at about 10' from behind a rootwad ground blind.
most satisfying and exciting was stalking to within 25' of a mature doe with 2 late fawns.....but I didn't drop the string.

Wudstix · July 28, 2020, 05:15:41 PM

Whistle pigs were a fine tutor.

TSP · July 29, 2020, 10:07:56 AM

You're all bold-faced liars. Everyone knows that REAL bowhunters never take shots less than 40 yards and only if they always hit'em in the upper left cornea. Y'all need to practice more hunting shots on a football field. MAYBE with hard work and sophistication you MIGHT be good enough to show your face in the woods. Well prob'ly not (I've seen some of your faces). But at least you won't be an embarrassment to bowhunting. As much.

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Wudstix · July 29, 2020, 10:32:18 AM

Took a shot once from in edge of woods across a bean field at what my eye told me was under 35 yards, turned out to be a tad over 37! Missed low and cut a little white hair of the biggest bodied and largest Whitetail I have ever seen. No blood and watched him disappear over the hill about 3/4 mile away. It's all subdivision now.