Red Zone!!! 15 yards or closer

[Harvester]

what is the closest you ever shot a bird? The closest for me has to be about 8 steps and the next has to be 11 steps. To close for error. lol. Don't like them any closer than 15 yards.

 

[rem270]

me and big8's doubled on 2 jakes at 10yds
it was awesome

 

[Grizzly Johnson]

12 steps for me.... it was my first solo bird with me doing all the calling. He came in spitting & drumming on a string. I shot because I was afraid he was getting too close and still coming....it was all over 30 minutes after daylight.....

 

[spitndrum]

8 steps as well!

 

[bvoss]

Had two longbeards walk by me last year at 3 steps. Pulled the trigger at 7 steps on the strutter! The firing pin hit the shell, the shell didn't go off. The turkey took off running and I pumped and shot him at ten. Hit him in the back of the neck with the 4x5x7 nitros! Talk about UGLY!

 

[REN]

approx 10ft. had 2 out front at 50yds working and then had one gobble RIGHT NEXT TO ME where i was not looking. tried to wait on the double but the other one got so close i thought he was going to PUT THEM THANGS ON ME! turn and shot him at about 10ft.....goes without saying there was not much head left lol

 

[mathews338]

6 steps or so almost missed barely took a chunk out of him had to do some stomping on that one

 

[BigSatt]

6 steps or so almost missed barely took a chunk out of him had to do some stomping on that one

LOL

 

[Setterman]

I killed one at 10 steps a few years ago, and missed one at 5 on my first TN draw hunt at Oak ridge. I don't like them inside 15, period.

 

[megalomaniac]

First bird I ever killed was 1 yard from the end of the barrel. It wasn't pretty.

Killed several inside 5 yards, missed a few inside 5 yards. The shot pattern isn't really a pattern inside 5 yards- just a 1" column of lead.

 

[nate17]

I was calling for a kid on the juvy hunt a couple years ago and put him and his dad about fifty yards in front of me and the gobbler circled around and was 6 feet from me gobbling his fool head off. I thought I was gonna blow an ear drum. I'm just really glad that they had enough sense to not shoot the bird beacuse I would have been nailed if they had shot.

 

[Taylor]

Had some so close, I think I was lucky to hit 'em with a pingpong-sized pattern. And then there's some I did miss. LOL. But fortunately, second shots (sometimes) are a bit more lethal when you begin the shootout at close range.