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I Know This Is LRH... But What Is The Shortest Distance You Have Taken A Live Target?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rcritch" data-source="post: 3102106" data-attributes="member: 125956"><p>I've clubbed countless mice and other vermin that were practically underfoot, including on a golf course where I nearly disemboweled a prairie dog with my 7 iron.</p><p></p><p>But my most memorable short distance hunting experience was on an Estancia Valley, NM dove hunt. With the setting sun low on the western horizon my buddy Wally and I were being so inundated from the east by wave after wave of doves coming to water at the stock pond we had permission to hunt that we decided to not shoot any bird unless we'd have a chance to catch it, in hand, before it hit the ground. Whoever caught the fewest birds would pay for dinner. I had an incomer flying right at me, fast and low, and popped it just like a station 8 low-house skeet target. Actually more like a station 8 low-house <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> Skeet target (twice as fast.) Didn't catch it as only by ducking VERY quickly was I able to keep the dove from hitting me in the face!</p><p></p><p>As for big game, on a muzzleloader antlerless elk hunt in the Cumbres Basin Wilderness I was watching a well used game trail when I saw a 3 point bull approaching. I hid behind a big Ponderosa pine and watched him come up the trail which passed just to my left of that very tree. It was all I could do to resist smacking him in the butt with the barrel of my muzzle loader as he past by me, but I didn't want to cause a ruckus that could spook any legal elk that might be following along. But, no such luck. Wound up putting my tag on the biggest cow elk I've so far ever killed the next morning at a fairly close range of 40 to 50 feet, and ever since I have wished that I actually had goosed that 3-point bull!</p><p></p><p>Then about 20 years ago and just about sundown there was a black bear that woke me up from an early evening nap while it was trying to break into my pickup camper. Range was about 12 to 15 feet for my 12 gauge double barrel loaded with double aught buckshot. One shot, broadside and the bear took off like a scalded ape and disappeared in a cloud of dust. When the dust finally settled I could see in the fading light that it had only made it about 25 yards before collapsing, dead as the proverbial door nail.</p><p></p><p>If these 70-80 MPH spring winds ever settle down I'll have to get out for some more close encounters of the shooting kind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rcritch, post: 3102106, member: 125956"] I've clubbed countless mice and other vermin that were practically underfoot, including on a golf course where I nearly disemboweled a prairie dog with my 7 iron. But my most memorable short distance hunting experience was on an Estancia Valley, NM dove hunt. With the setting sun low on the western horizon my buddy Wally and I were being so inundated from the east by wave after wave of doves coming to water at the stock pond we had permission to hunt that we decided to not shoot any bird unless we'd have a chance to catch it, in hand, before it hit the ground. Whoever caught the fewest birds would pay for dinner. I had an incomer flying right at me, fast and low, and popped it just like a station 8 low-house skeet target. Actually more like a station 8 low-house [B]INTERNATIONAL[/B] Skeet target (twice as fast.) Didn't catch it as only by ducking VERY quickly was I able to keep the dove from hitting me in the face! As for big game, on a muzzleloader antlerless elk hunt in the Cumbres Basin Wilderness I was watching a well used game trail when I saw a 3 point bull approaching. I hid behind a big Ponderosa pine and watched him come up the trail which passed just to my left of that very tree. It was all I could do to resist smacking him in the butt with the barrel of my muzzle loader as he past by me, but I didn't want to cause a ruckus that could spook any legal elk that might be following along. But, no such luck. Wound up putting my tag on the biggest cow elk I've so far ever killed the next morning at a fairly close range of 40 to 50 feet, and ever since I have wished that I actually had goosed that 3-point bull! Then about 20 years ago and just about sundown there was a black bear that woke me up from an early evening nap while it was trying to break into my pickup camper. Range was about 12 to 15 feet for my 12 gauge double barrel loaded with double aught buckshot. One shot, broadside and the bear took off like a scalded ape and disappeared in a cloud of dust. When the dust finally settled I could see in the fading light that it had only made it about 25 yards before collapsing, dead as the proverbial door nail. If these 70-80 MPH spring winds ever settle down I'll have to get out for some more close encounters of the shooting kind. [/QUOTE]
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