What is the strangest shot you've ever taken?

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

What is the strangest, most different shot you've ever taken and hit what it was that you were aiming at? Was it to break line on a kite stuck on power lines? Was it hitting an annoying fly on your target? Was it clay shooting with a .22? What was it?

Mine was shooting my XD40 at 200 yards and actually hitting the steel gong set up a few times.

Whats yours?

 

[Skribs]

Probably nothing special, but airsoft gun point shooting at cans I had tossed in the air, and shooting an airsoft mockup of an AR with no rear sight.

 

[mortablunt]

I once took my AK over my head, sprayed around, and hit one target at 300 meters. I have no idea how I did it.

 

[303tom]

I like to shoot flies on the side of the shed with my Daisy. Some times I even hit a few.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Shot wasp nest off the overhang of the barn and didn't hit the tin. I was standing on 10 foot of scaffaling scrapping a house. It was one of those crazy I bet you can't do that moment. I was using a Marlin-60!

 

[AlexM]

When I was active army we did a shooting upside down from a rope drill (Ausie repel; or however you spell that version) was a lot of fun. Did pretty well at it I put down 3 pop-up steels (silhouette style) at ranges from 15 to 30 meters. Was shooting the good old Beretta M9.

 

[Rail Driver]

I like to shoot golf balls with a .22 snub revolver (~10 - 30 ft)

 

[AKElroy]

My 10 year old son & I go to my lease twice a month, and we fill used water bottles with all kinds of stuff. Not all that unique, but it is fun making my son put on ear muffs to shoot a bottle with his red rider while I take careful aim with a .30-30 just out of his line of sight & blast at the same time. I have a video of him actually stunned looking at his red rider, blowing the "smoke" out of the muzzle, jubilant over having the worlds most powerful daisy.

 

[towboat_er]

I shot a wood bee out of the air with my CZ75b.

 

[T Bran]

I hate extension ladders so all branches over 10 feet get trimmed with my 12 gague.
We get those big banana spiders to eradicate I use my old pump crossman bb gun pump it 5 times make sure there is no bb or pellet in the chamber the air blows them to bits.
Shot 20 holes in an above ground pool liner to drain the green mosquito larvae infested water out. Many uses around the house in my neck of the woods.
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[7.62 Nato]

Head shot a squirrel with a 308 for my buddies dad when we were dear hunting. About 60 yds using a Win. Model 88 with Rem. Accelerator.

 

[ChCx2744]

I used to shoot golf balls at 50 yards with my AR with only iron sights...I don't know if that's anything to boast about, but I'd hit most of them. I guess that's pretty good. Golf balls shine really bright in the sun, I tell you what.

 

[JEB]

shooting a grass carp off of a pond bank at around 110 yards with a glock 27 with the first shot. tried several more times but just couldnt hit it again.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

We get those big banana spiders to eradicate I use my old pump crossman bb gun pump it 5 times make sure there is no bb or pellet in the chamber the air blows them to bits.
Shot 20 holes in an above ground pool liner to drain the green mosquito larvae infested water out. Many uses around the house in my neck of the woods.

I use a pump pellet pistol to get rid of Hobo spiders, I pump it up 50 times, put it right up to them, pull the trigger and then they dissappear.

 

[RaceM]

Post-storm dangerous "hanger" limb removal. Cleared off intervening branches with the 22, cut the hanger loose with a 12 gauge.

 

[jcwit]

A shot from the hip with my lever Winchester at a buck coming up a game trail right towards me. First shot from the hip at approx 10 to 15 feet dropped him.

I had always been told to wait as long as the deer was coming towards me. Decided I had to do something tho.

 

[montanaoffroader]

Nothing really special, one night while out backpacking my brother and I spent the evening trying to shoot out a candle flame from the door of my tent at various ranges. I was shooting my SAA and he was shooting his Colt Officers Model 7.5" .38 Special. We managed to put it out several times before I finally blew the candle to bits. He outshot me that evening.......

 

[Skribs]

I like to shoot golf balls with a .22 snub revolver (~10 - 30 ft)

Reminds me of the Home Improvement episode where Tim brings out the old person golf club. The golf pro says "that's cheating - it uses a .22 caliber charge to launch the ball." Tim just says "Not this baby. I rigged it with a .44 magnum!"

As to spiders...I use a rubber band gun for those spiders that are up in the corner over the stairs. Kills em dead and doesn't hurt the wall.

 

[doc2rn]

Back when I still hunted I shot a .300 H&H through a buck the doe behind him a sappling tree and another doe behind it. Called the game warden, he told me to use an old tag from the previous yr and announced my hunting season was done in one bullet.

 

[snakeman]

mine would have to be a neutrea at 40 yards. this was with a bow though. The neutrea was
looking straight at me and I put the arrow down his throat. That was ackward.

 

[Gunnerboy]

probably shooting a crow out of the air with a break barrel pellet gun, never been able to do it again but it was funny seeing the look on my neighbors face as the crow landed in his back yard.

 

[captain awesome]

Well I have done a few of the things listed, not to brag or anything....here are my favorites;
A pair of womens underwear hanging from a tree in the woods with a sling shot at about 50 yards (my dad bet I couldn't do it first try. showed him.)

a dove on the golf driving range about 125 yards. The thing exploded, using my driver (again, my friend bet me i couldn't do it. He bought me ice cream that night)

golf balls with my Colt 22 target pistol 25 yards

sparrows with my bow in my yard.

pigeons 50-60 yards on a street lamp down the street with my pellet guns.

little green army men across the yard with my bb gun(bout 10 yrs old)

the circular thermometer on my dads smoker when I was also about 10 with a bb gun. boy was he pissed but it was a pin point shot dead center, and I could tell he was just a bit proud in spite of me ruining his temp gage.

Flys off a picnic bench half way across the yard with the same bb gun. I was darn good with that thing.

Its funny someone should mention clays out of the air with a 22. I have been wanting to buy the right 22 with the right sights for a while for exactly that purpose.

 

[Shimitup]

Twenty five years ago or so an old friend and I were walking over his uncles ranch in south Texas just to look things over prior to deer season. Noticing white winged doves around my friend quipped, "should have brought shotguns". Pulling my Redhawk out of it's shoulder holster, he looks at me and says "you're ridiculous" of course from this particular person that's exactly what I wanted to hear. I spotted a dove about 60 yds away in a mesquite and lined up and let it go.

I'm sure most folks have seen a car strike a bird, this was similar but more like fireworks, an instantaneous sphere of feathers about 8' across then drifting to softly and silently to the ground. He stares at me, our ears ringing,
"ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!" more of what I wanted to hear. Walking over to the tree we found nothing but red spots on the trunk of the tree, finally we found this pitiful drawn up claw with a tiny piece of meat on it.

Same friend, different trip. Driving a rural road we stopped to shoot at some trash someone dumped. About 15 yds off there was a B&W TV in the pile with one of the rabbit ears sticking up. And my friend, being a glutton for punishment of course, says "I'll bet you can't hit that" You know what comes next.... he did. Drawing my Gold Cup .45 I very matter of factly proceed to part the antenna in two with one shot and reholster looking at him like, "what did you expect!" I got what I wanted to hear, "You're just RIDICULOUS!"

He is a better shotgunner so over the years the "ridiculous" shots and goadings have traded back and forth. The story is fun to remember and fun to tell. I never seemed to shoot as well without him to annoy. As years pass though I realize that the very best part of it was just being afield with an old friend.

 

[OKBOOMER]

Had just bought our first handguns when the show "Sharpshooters" came on ... I saw Bill do the card trick and went to the range the very next day and did it with a Lever Action Puma 1892 replica chambered in .357, and with my .380 Bersa at the outdoor range with a 20 mph wind blowing that day:

 

[BIGBANG]

My story is funny and sad, funny cause when I was 12 me and my brothers all ad bb guns. Everyday after school we would go across the street to the orange groves and shoot oranges. One day there were some crows flying overhead, I pointed my bb gun in the air from my hip, not aiming, shot and killed one. It dropped like a sack of potatoes and I felt awesome.

My brother then proceeded to tell me he could do it to. Except he shouldered his ol' daisy aimed at the crows and FIRED!!! he fired across the grove, across the street, about 20 yards or so, and shot out my moms windshield on her van. Man did we gets our tails beat but I'll never forget that shot. she took away all our bb guns even though it was only my brother that did it, it still bugs me! It was my first run in with gun control and I've been against it ever since.