What's the CLOSEST shot you ever made?

20 Yards to a coyote.......

I was turkey hunting and an unexpected coyote showed up...... So I let him have it since the critter spooked the game.....

You noobs. Get out in the real world more; stop playing video games and messin' around on your computers. That's all I do, I do real world stuff ALL YEAR LONG. Thus, I'm a sick monster at basketball, and yeah, I can make that shot atleast six times in a row. My friend Jamal pulled it off like 16 times in a row once. No lol, im not like that. who does that anyways? btw- dont think ive ever made a full court shot before

Probably not in the exact category, but I once drilled a fox through the eyeball at about 10 feet. He had gotten into our chainlink chicken pen, slaughtered about 15 out of 20 chickens, but apparently couldn't remember how he got in through the chainlink roof, which was sort of patched together from scraps.

We heard the chickens carrying on and went down with my wife's old stainless Ruger .357mag, figuring the fox or bobcat would be long gone when he heard us, but then discovered the fox running around the pen, like Roadrunner on speed. My wife started to head back up for a more appropriate weapon, like a 12-gauge, while I waited with her pistol. Suddenly the fox stuck his head around the edge of the coop and I took a quick shot, barely aiming, and blew his head apart, right through the eye.

My wife saw it, so I just pretended this was no big deal and I could do shots like this all day. I suspect she knew there was a lot of luck at work there, but I'll never admit it.

The close-in shots seem a lot tougher sometimes, but I suspect that it's just our imagination IF you discount the difficulties in doing quick surprise-type shots. Seems to me that long shots are inherently more difficult, all other things being equal, since you are dealing with much smaller minutes of angle to actually get a hit.

I suspect this could all get a bit complicated with shotguns, and you'd have to crank in a lot of variable like barrel length, type of shot load, and choke (if any). For instance, if you were shooting a rattlesnake at 10 feet, you'd probably get a better spread at 10 ft than 6 ft in most hunting shotguns with an open choke (unless you were shooting a slug), but the shot at 6 ft would probably be better aimed, too, so the odds of a kill might well be equal.

The first rabbit I ever shot ran into some tall grass. We had it surrounded so it was just hiding. I shot it at ten feet with a 12 guage high brass load. I felt bad it wasn't even worth cleaning. That same trip I almost stepped on one. I waited for it to run and shot it at about 5-7 feet. This time I aimed for the head. Good eatin

We were on a hunting trip in SWA - now Namibia - and had two Brits along for the trip. Both wanted a lion trophy to take home - lions were plentiful then.

The one Pommie got his chance at about 100 yards and wounded the beast who ran off into thickish bush.

You don't follow any lion into territory like that never mind a wounded one.

Pommie "Had to do the right thing" and followed against all our arguments not to. I could not let the fool go alone and I followed behind him about 20 yards.

True to form the cat circled so as to wait for him as he passed.

Fortunately I saw the grass move and sighting along the barrel I took a snap shot as the cat jumped.

Lucky shot it was for the Pommie but he dirtied his pants as the dead animal fell onto him.

He did not even see it coming. Its people like him who give hunting a bad name.

12 feet on some bird. pest control, not hunting

my scope zeroed for 25 yards, that's a awkward shot. i guessed i'll hit 3.5 inches low, and guess what, I was right on!

actually the closest shot was like 4 inches from the muzzle. with a mosin nagant, doing something retarded- attempting to shoot scorpions and lizards on the ground (me and my friend thought it would be a fun thing to try- he had an AR15)

although I technically missed, the sand being blasted by the bullet's impact blew a lizard in two. it was a bit crispy too, likely from the muzzle blast. i killed something, gutted it and cooked it in one shot! (didn't eat it though).

The first Rabbit I ever shot was being chased by my Beagle.* My Dog and the Rabbit were both going 90 mile an hour crossing directly in front of me within 12 inches of the tip of my toes.* When I squeezed the trigger of the shotgun my Beagle was 4 inches from its rear end.* The rabbit rolled and tumbled with my Beagle running right over top of it as it was tumbling end over end.* My Father turned to me and said; " Son I am just glad you didn't shoot the Dog." but I was not going to stop you from shooting at your first rabbit.* Then we both started laughing like crazy.* Pennsylvania Hunter.*

Opening morning Turkey Season last year in Florida, my buddy and I were set up on two gobblers at his place in Perry. I called to the birds thinking they were going to come down the road to our right so my buddy could kill one. Well, they circled around and came in directly from my left in some planted pines. Immediately to my left was a clump of palmettos and the first bird stepped out to my left at about 15 feet, he ate a 2.25 oz load of Hevi 6's, it was ugly. From my friends vantage point he said it looked like there was a rope tied around the birds neck and someone yanked him back about 10 feet.

nearly point blank with a snowshoe hare, I was hunting a brush pile with my .410, it poked it's head up from the brush maybe 3 feet from me, I didn't move, it turned it's head away and I just pointed at his head, blew the head all to hell but the body was fine since it was still under the brush :D

walking on a trail just before dark, I hit a branch with my head and I heard and felt a huge flutter, it was a ruffed grouse on the branch. I seen where it went and gave chase, I was looking around, looked up and it basically looked at me face to face at arm's length, pointed up the barrel and took it's head off, amazing that I got that close, twice!

hiding at the bottom of a tree like you did, but hunting deer, a squirrel jumped on my head thinking it was part of the tree, it screeched and ran off, likely ruined a evening of hunting, but got a funny story out of it.

I once took 2 ruffed grouse with one shot of my .410, about 5 yards away, they mirrored each other, one about a foot behind the other, got them both cleanly.

I once took a moose at about 3 yards, it walked up on me when I was hiding near a scent lure, I must have spilled some cow lure on my jacket and he came for it, headshot took him down nicely, dropped like a huge bag of bricks and never seen it coming.

One day while bow hunting in Oklahoma, I had just come down out of my tree-stand and had not picked up my bow yet, when this tom turkey came from around the bush 3 feet from me. Not able to get to my bow without spooking the turkey, I slowly pulled my knife, then threw it with a side-arm motion with my left hand and I actually cut it's throat. I am a right handed person and I wear my knife on my right hip. Got lucky on that one.

25 feet a bunch of deer came run down a step bank i pulled the hammer back on my .35 marlin and hip shoot him he came to rest at by feet,,,,i thought i was going to get ran over,,,,,,i really steped aside to avoid the buck,,,,,,,,,this was in pa,,some time ago,,,,,the bullet went all the way thur the deer cand came out at the base of its spine ,,,,, some what intact,,,,,,,,,,