What was your closest shot

[RadSav]

Spike elk on the run right at me.  Knocked the bow out of my hand just after release.  Bear with 444 Marlin about 8" from barrel.  Quite a few bear up close under 10'.  Deer broadside about 3 yards from bow.  Kamikaze Pheasant with beak in the barrel, I'm pretty sure

[Longbowz]

Couple deer at maybe 8 or 10 feet.  One while I was setting on the ground trying to look like a stump while he circled me. 

[CAMPMEAT]

Point blank on a Bobcat under an old homestead porch with my 22 mag rifle.

[h20hunter]

Bear was about 30 yards with my .270, deer was about 12 steps with my bow.

[brew]

archery hunting wet side...sneaking along a deer trail on the edge of a cut not long after sunrise in late September...stepped up on a second growth over the trail and doe stood up on the back side of the log...i can still remember seeing the dew drops on her eyelashes and whiskers around her muzzle...sun was to my back..never aimed just drew and released...she went about 20 yards

[pianoman9701]

The buck I killed this year was about 5-7 yards away.

[Jonathan_S]

The buck I killed this year was about 5-7 yards away.

You mean the baby with spots?  Just kidding, just kidding 

Such a rush to get those close shots.

[pianoman9701]

The buck I killed this year was about 5-7 yards away.

You mean the baby with spots?  Just kidding, just kidding 

Such a rush to get those close shots.

Lol, I got it. No, but it did have mother's milk dripping from its lips. 

[h20hunter]

P-Man....sounds like a tasty deer!

When bored and cruising youtube the up close shots and encounters are some of the coolest.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Rifle - 10 feet on a whitetail doe, from the hip with Win M94 .30/30
Muzzleloader - about 2 inches on a ruffed grouse pecking on an apple, straight down one-handed while sitting in an apple tree crotch
Shotgun - 8 feet on a spring gobbler
Archery - 8 yards on a spike elk
Handgun - several cottontails and blue grouse under 10 feet

[Jonathan_S]

Muzzleloader - about 2 inches on a ruffed grouse pecking on an apple, straight down one-handed while sitting in an apple tree crotch

  once I was grouse hunting with the 12 ga but packing a .22 pistol too.  I almost stepped on one that flew up and landed on a branch next to my chest.  I pulled the pistol and capped it like it was in a phone booth.  Felt like an assassination...weird.

[cedarriver]

 Always cool to be in the right place at the right time to have them that close. Never pulled the trigger but had a doe at about 6 ft browsing on the other side of a clump of sage brush, during archery season a lot of years ago. Did manage to draw on her twice just to see if I could get away with it. 

[bigbeamhunter]

Arrow barely got off the string

[RB]

Have shot two Deer at 10 steps one in Alaska (Sitka Blacktail) and one in Eastern Washington (Whitetail). Both times with 30-06 and both times they were bedded and they stood up as I was moving slow through the brush.

[mossyoak arrow slinger]

Last year steelnducks called my cow into about six yards.  That's was a lot of fun and made it pretty easy.  That's by far my closest.