Shortest shot ever on a deer.RIFLE

[halflife65]

I shot a small blacktail buck with a .270 at about 10 or 15 feet.  I had jumped it with a couple of does on this steep hillside and it ran straight away from me in this doghair timber.  Instead of trying to follow it, I ran straight up the hill and the deer hooked around and tried to circle around me.  I timed it perfectly and it was walking right at me about 15 - 20 minutes later (I have no idea why it didn't see me) and I just put the scope on the bottom of the white throat patch and pulled the trigger, almost like shooting a shotgun.  It did this huge backflip and I stood there in kinda shock and then had the weird thought that "that looked like something out of the movies.  Huh.  It really does happen."  The big flip was kind of funny looking - with the recoil of the gun I just saw feet flying up in the air.  It landed on it's back and didn't even twitch.

[boneaddict]

8 feet, 30-06 200 grain Nosler.  THUMP  Picked him up and moved him back farther than he was distance from me.

[boneaddict]

hit a coyote in the nose at 3-4 feet with the same round the day before about 100 feet from there.  Didn't have to tube skin him 

[piled-up]

About ten feet for me with scoped 7mm shot right over him first shot luckely the second dumped him he rolled right to me i was able to reach in my pack for my knife and started gutting! Its true!

[DOUBLELUNG]

Killed a whitetail doe from the hip on a riparian deer drive at less than 10 feet, with the Model 94 .30/30 I inherited from my grandfather.  If I'd been quicker it would have been point-blank as she ran right at me, I was trying to bring the rifle up as she spazzed and leapt to my right.  Hit right behind the shoulder, she was so jazzed up on adrenaline at that point she ran like a paint sprayer for about 70 yards before she was pumped out of blood and fell over.

[tlbradford]

Several between 10 and 20 yards. 

[woodswalker]

potted a doe with a 94 Winchester in .32 Winchester Special at about 12 feet...I was in a commune with Ma Nature when the doe trotted around the corner of the trail...it was a tucked-under-the-arm shot that broke the front leg, a rib and blew up the heart...that was my second deer ever...a LOT of years ago.

[Pathfinder101]

First buck.  4x4 whitetail, scored about 140.  I was 13 years old.  Almost stepped on him.  Shot him behind the ear at less than 5 yards as he was jumping over a log.  Let's just pretend that's where I was aiming
Took me 10 minutes to stop shaking.  Still the biggest whitetail I have ever killed.

[Curly]

.300 Win mag this year at about 20 yards.

.300 Win mag a few years ago at 20 feet.

.270 Win several years ago at 15 yards.

My longest shots on blacktails have been with my muzzleloader...   I take the .300 for the long, cross clearcut shots, but they never seem to present themselves and then I end up bumping them up close and personal.  Gonna switch back to ML next year......probably get some longer shots again.

[270Shooter]

285 yards I havent shot many deer.

[huntnphool]

Both of mine were less than 50 yards this year.

[NRA4LIFE]

I was in a tree stand about 18 feet up or so.  Deer was 10 feet from my tree.  Rifle hit with the 300 Win mag. 

[andrew_12gauge]

I killed the buck in my avatar at about 20 yds with my dads 7mm rem mag

[lemondog]

On my Chiwawa Tag 2 years ago I swear I was being tortured. I kept gettting inside 30 yards on nice bucks I did not want to shoot with a rifle as I was holding out for something special. I would have been excited to take any of them had I been carring my bow. In the end I never found a monster but shot a nice buck,we spotted him from about 300 +. As I worked in on him he hit the brush following a doe and to my suprise showed up at 20 yards eventually ending up head on to me at less than 5 yards. He reconized me as somthing other than a bush and backed up 3 steps and turned sideways......boom! didn't go far!

[Huntbear]

1st branch antlered buck was at 15 ft.  Was actually heading home before dark all down and depressed, season was about over.  This buck is standing next to the road.  I stop, get out, load the rifle.  I step into the reprod and he is still standing there looking at me with his head down under the limbs.  Almost thought I was gonna miss, as close as he was.  Bullet broke his neck.