What was your closest shot

[blindluck]

My first elk I shot at 3 steps, a cow and her yearling ran right to me in the windfall, as they were passing by I swung my bow and shot her at 8 feet. blew thru her and buried the broadhead in a log. It was freakin awesome!!

[Crunchy]

Mine was maybe 7 yards on the lead cow.  Was also my first bow kill, and third shot opportunity I had that morning. 

[MLBowhunting]

8 yards. 5pt raghorn bugling

[Dan-o]

3 or 4 yards on a cow elk with my muzzleloader.

It was pretty cool.

Heard them coming for a while.  they were mewing and wandering.   Couldn't believe they walked right up to me.

[kentrek]

5 steps....

Passed on one head on that was 3 steps to his tracks this year...put a neck and head in there an 

Love it when there close 

[Boss .300 winmag]

Shot a 15 YO boar bear out of a fir tree at 9' after I woke him up from sleeping on a creek bank, he got scared and claimed the tree when he saw me. 

[ghosthunter]

6 inches with a muzzel loader. I was in this blind. The elk a spike came around the tree on the left and stood in front of the blind. The inside went dark. I leaned foreward to see and saw he was a spike. put the barrel center of his back.

Darn near burnt the blind down. The flame caught it on fire. I saw him turn and run off with a large hole in his back. before the smoke filled the blind. By the time I got out and reloaded was 10 minutes. Found him 100 ft away.
Photo was taken two days before the season opened.

[HighCountryHunter88]

3ft no pins required

[jrebel]

15' maybe.....aka "Danger Close" as I like to call it.   

[Solohunter84]

10 feet on a black bear with my rifle. My first bear. I spotted it and it walked right at me. Rookie mistake having the scope on 9 haha looked through it and seen the biggest ear I've ever seen... Lowered the gun towards the chest and letter rip. Bear made it about 75 feet before piling up. Good times

[ouchfoss]

I was walking a road during early archery elk and all of sudden a spike deer comes bouncing right towards me. I knocked an arrow and drew back and when it decided to stop bouncing, it was maybe 5 yards. Double lunged it and it ran maybe 10 yards back the way it came and piled up.

[Jonathan_S]

Archery bull 2014, close enough to smell his breath  probably like 9 feet

[LeviD1]

5 ft when I used to rifle hunt. Grunted a few times while I kicked the snow off a log I wanted to sit on. Barely sat down before he came running out of the tree line right at me. Had to shoot from the hip. Probably one of my best hunting memories. Of course it was about 16 degrees out so I was dressed to sit for a long peroid of time. That was a sweaty drag out.

[coachcw]

I shot a bull at 20 ish  inches .... let's just say he pinned me down.   My brother was a lying  behind a log o center and a buck came sneaking up the trail and picked his head up almost touching the barrel. He just pulled the trigger and hit him right between the eyes.

[ouchfoss]

My dad tells this story all the time. During early archery back in the 90s, he ended up having a herd get spooked his direction by some other hunters and the whole herd started single filing about five feet in front of him while he was behind a tall stump. When he got a chance, he drew back and just waited while cow after cow keep moving in front of him. Finally, last elk to get in front of him was the lead bull and he just pointed the bow towards the chest and released ( it was too close to even try with the peep site). He figured the shot wasn't much further than the length of his arrow! The elk ran off and he looked down and the arrow was laying right there in front of him, like maybe five feet away. Not sure why the arrow didn't go any further than that because it was actually a perfect double lung shot and the bull made it probably 50 yards and tipped over. Ended up being his biggest bull ever at the time, P&Y minimum 5x5.