Ok, shortest rifle shot?

[rebecca francis]

I shot this one at 510 yards and missed by four feet! Then I spent the next couple hours sneaking in closer to him. I found him right over a ridge 30 yards below me. I didn't miss him that time, but I really wished I had my bow that day!

 

[robby denning]

That's what I'm talking about! 30 yards!!!!!!!!!!! Way to go!
Can any rifle guys/gals top that? I can't!

 

[robby denning]

Ps
be u ti ful buck

 

[hodgeman]

I've taken several whitetails from 25-50yds with open sighted 30-30s. I also took a caribou this year at 80 yards after a long stalk with my son.

Sneaking in to bayonet range is much more interesting to me than shooting over the county line!

 

[Josh Wright]

140" whitetail

7mm-08

15 yards and running

 

[Becca]

I took this caribou at less than 30 yards (we never got to range him, all i know is he looked huge in my scope). we spotted him from 3/4 a mile away, then lost him in the brush. Good thing I was ready...he popped out right in front of us, and walked right to me.

 

[justin davis]

Shot a coyote with a .223 at 25 yards

 

[luke moffat]

Sitka blacktail at 25 yards.

Closest rifle shot at big game I've witnessed was my wife's black bear last year at 15 yards as it founded a rock on a beach right next to where we were napping.

 

[Backpack Hunter]

Whitetail at 7 yards with a 30-06.

 

[ckleeves]

I shot a DINK 3x4 bull at 12 yds with a 300 rum. One day to hunt and I took the first bull that I saw! Verified that he had a 5" brow tine and let it rip!

 

[Ross]

21 yds late in October on a very warm bugged filled day. It was the worst time ever butchering this guy with the nats all over me!

 

[Becca]

Closest rifle shot at big game I've witnessed was my wife's black bear last year at 15 yards as it founded a rock on a beach right next to where we were napping.

Can't believe I forgot that one when I posted earlier...that bear popped out from right behind a rock directly in front of us on the only part of the whole beach we couldn't see. Talk about an adrenaline rush!

 

[evan williams]

No pictures since it was on a mule deer doe in Kansas but in 1999 I took one in the timber in 2 feet of snow at 7 yards. Luckily, I was using raised scope rings and was able to use my irons on that shot.

 

[robby denning]

Cool shot Evan! I shot a buck (I'd already hit him once about 40 minutes before & lost him) at about 10 yards looking down the side of my barrel (WAAYYY to dark for scope). I got him!

 

[bearguide]

i shot a javalina at two feet with a shot gun / dang thing almost got me

 

[evan williams]

Thats awesome Robby!!!!! Its also one of the reasons that i started shooting raised rings in Kansas. Everything was getting closer and closer I'd like to think that I was getting better BUT....my little brother keeps me honest about it

 

[JG358]

Shot my first whiteail buck at about 30yds.

 

[muleyman]

After putting the sneak on my first pronghorn buck at the age of 15, my dad and I crawled to the top of a small rise to find the buck only 25 yards away in the process of passing on his genes. I politely let him finish and when he dismounted I shot him straight on in the chest. To this day I swear he was smiling!

 

[philw]

15 yards, cow elk, last year. Does a muzzleloader count?

 

[luke moffat]

15 yards, cow elk, last year. Does a muzzleloader count?

We are absolutely NOT counting smooth bores in this thread. Just kidding, nice work on the cow elk!