shortest shot on a deer

[gumpokc]

Closest i have stalked one is about 30 yards or so during BP season.

The funniest/most irratating, and closest one was about 8 years ago in SW oklahoma, south of reed crossing, near magnum/altus oklahoma.

very heavy mesquite, and ravines. was a long day kinda wet, and cold. bad bad day over all, everything that could go wrong went wrong.

was walking back out close to dusk, follwing a ravine. Cussing up a storm, smoking a cig, making all kinds of racket, i just didnt care at the time.

I still have no idea how this doe didnt hear or smell me, but as i came around a corner in the ravine, she was barreling down it going the other way. actually ran into me, and with being offbalance from being so surprised, knocked me down, and she kept right on pounding ground as fast as she could.

the bad part is that a friends dad saw the whole thing from up on top of the hill not far away.

he teases me that i had one jump into my lap, and i still couldn't catch it :P

after that, and an incident i had with a cougar, and another where i stepped into the middle of a covey of quail before it went up around me, in that same ravine, he calls it "frank's place"