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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #75 on: August 01, 2022, 06:22:42 PM »
Shot a large black bear at 10ft.  Woulda been 1ft if I’d have gathered myself faster.  Spot and stalk too.  Looong story.  Instinctively shot at him as he turned to run and hit him perfectly in back of head.  I am no bad arse it all just kinda happened.

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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #76 on: August 01, 2022, 07:52:24 PM »
About 20 feet on a 5x5 bull with a rifle.  Last 3 have all been 20 yards or less.  Snuck up on him while he was feeding.   Waited for him to clear the heard for a few minutes. 

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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #77 on: August 02, 2022, 03:48:25 PM »
Shot my last Idaho bear at 15' +/- 3'. Spot and stalk, no hounds.

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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #78 on: August 02, 2022, 05:25:51 PM »
Shot my last Idaho bear at 15' +/- 3'. Spot and stalk, no hounds.

 :yike:  Uh with a little more practice you might not need to stalk so close next time..... ?    :yike:

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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #79 on: August 02, 2022, 05:34:41 PM »
Shot a coyote in between my legs with my bow, vanes didn’t leave the rest before the dirt stopped it. Have a picture somewhere on my phone, first and only coyote.

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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #80 on: August 03, 2022, 09:08:50 AM »
Shot my last Idaho bear at 15' +/- 3'. Spot and stalk, no hounds.

 :yike:  Uh with a little more practice you might not need to stalk so close next time..... ?    :yike:

I definitely would've preferred to be further, but it was in thick brush with only one trail and about 20' of visibility where she popped up.

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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #81 on: August 04, 2022, 10:23:07 AM »
15ft 2x3 regressing blacktail during late season rifle hot on a doe. Did a 360 jump about 5ft in the air and collapsed.

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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #82 on: August 04, 2022, 01:27:34 PM »
Caribou, longbow, 1 yard. Shot from the bank of a river it was wading. I hit an 18" whitefish in the head with the same single shot. No I'm not kidding.

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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #83 on: August 09, 2022, 05:39:49 PM »
First buck, under 10'.  Slipping around a corner on an old skid road and walked into a spike blacktail buck.  Never got the  303 British to my shoulder.  Plugged the trigger as he was spinning to turn and run the other way.  Double lunged him and he fell at my feet. 

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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #84 on: August 09, 2022, 06:28:30 PM »
About 2.5ft Night time camp robbing field mouse with an arrow found in the woods.

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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #85 on: August 09, 2022, 09:52:20 PM »
3 steps on my first bull.  A couple more at 5 yards.


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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #86 on: August 09, 2022, 09:58:16 PM »
6 inches. Mole in my back yard.  :chuckle:
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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #87 on: August 10, 2022, 04:14:38 AM »
6 inches. Mole in my back yard.  :chuckle:
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I’d pay to see that  :chuckle:
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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #88 on: August 10, 2022, 05:35:42 AM »
npaull, Alaska surf and turf

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Re: Closest shot on a harvested animal?
« Reply #89 on: August 14, 2022, 12:28:37 PM »
10 feet on a whitetail when I pulled the trigger, slid past me and at about 2 feet when dead

I put the barrel of my 30-30 to a bears head to kill it when he came out of the tree and landed next to me, does that count?


 


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