What is the strangest shot you've ever taken?

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Shot a wasp out of the air with my Kimber Pro Carry. Darn thing kept bugging us at the range and as luck would have it - I was about to take a shot and he flew in front of the muzzle and waited just a second too long. I popped him :D
 
Shooting carpenter bees out of the air with a .22 rifle. Shooting off the back deck to the corner of the house. ~50 ft.
 
As a kid, oh so many years ago, after reloading my BB gun, I forgot to screw the barrel assembly back into its housing properly, and proceeded to shoot out the kitchen window with the flying barrel assembly. Not sure why gun was pointed towards kitchen window, but my Mother never let me forget that moment. Distance was about 10 feet.
 
Holding my 8 year olds H&R Tamer .410 youth stock one handed, I shattered a clay on the move at 20 yards.

Not mine, but when I got my Hi Point .45, the wife took it to the backyard range. Set up a target, and walked back to the rifle line at 100 yards. She put 18 shots down range, actually managed to hit 2 times.
 
tried to "push" a hand tossed tennis ball with 12ga #9 shot. Made it 5 shells before I lost control of the travel.
 
My eldest son's friend had not been exposed to firearms outside of video games. He thought the old shooting empty shot gun shell hulls at 15-20 yards with an iron sighted 22 pistol was the most amazing thing he'd ever seen. Growing up, those shotgun empties were our targets. If you couldn't hit them with your irons on your 22 rifle, dad didn't take you squirrel hunting.
 
i took a spent 38 special cartridge and laid it on a log facing me.......and i shot it straight down the pipe with a .22 at 30 yards.

i was surprised at how little it actually deformed the brass.....only the primer was slightly bulged.
 
Not mine, but when I got my Hi Point .45, the wife took it to the backyard range. Set up a target, and walked back to the rifle line at 100 yards. She put 18 shots down range, actually managed to hit 2 times.
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My cousin had been with me shooting rifles. He bought a new pistol and asked to go shooting. I lent him my target stand and use of my property. He brought back my target holder all shot up and said he would build a replacement because his 1st pistol was horribly inaccurate. He had been shooting from my 100 and 150 yard line with a glock 19. He had grabbed my rifle stand, which has only about 9" or 10" between the verticals or just enough to staple a printed paper target on the cardboard. Most of his shots were on the paper or cardboard backing. I explained to him that he was actually doing pretty good to be hitting the target or the target holder.

One more...I once shot a small highlighter pen at 20-25 yards with a 22 pistol and iron sights. I got really lucky and hit where I was aiming at the tip of the yellow cap, which took the cap off and left the pen stuck in the dirt. My girlfriend followed the shot with her own, which took the felt tip and very little else off...pen still standing. The kids still talk about it and she refuses to admit if it was luck, skill or both. :)
 
Many years ago I was sitting on my front porch, shooting at dirt clods with my Remington 510 in the field across the road. It was hunting season. I hear a rifle go off and pretty soon this doe appears in the field running all over the place. She eventually makes it close to me after stumbling through a ditch. Then she starts stumbling straight toward me at a fast walk. I could see that she had been gut shot. I waited for the moment, and put a 22LR between her eyes. She dropped like a stone. Few minutes later here comes the hunter. Said to me do I want it I killed it. I'm thinking NO after looking at the mess he made. Meat was probably as tough as leather and tasted like piss. Hope they enjoyed it.

Another, I was in my tree stand when along comes my first deer of the season. Dropped her at 50 yards, waited a few, then climbed down. All of a sudden another deer gets up and starts running about 20 yards from where I shot the first one. Shot that one I'm thinking lucky me lots of sausage soon! I go to the second deer and find two holes in it. Dang thing did the commando crawl and I never saw it.
 
ChCx2744 said:
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.
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This is not true...I lose them when it is sunny all the time.

75 yd spine shot through the neck of a bedded deer facing away from me. All I could see was the neck and head.

Also hit a snap shot of a pheasant that took off 50 yds from where we were standing. I have no idea how I got my gun up so fast or even hit the bird at about 60yds when it dropped. Lots of cheering from the group over that one.
 
I was shooting my converted M1917 "Enfield" at the Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association 1,000 yard "fun shoot" at Camp Perry. The wind was blowing something like 35mph and all of the range flags were pointing in different directions.

The wind was blowing so hard that I didn't have enough windage on my rear sight (an old Marble) to aim at my own target. I had to aim at the next target up wind of me and adjust my sights so that my bullets would be blown back onto my target.

I was surprised to actually hit the target a few times. I'm sure that if I weren't using 200gr. Sierras I wouldn't have done even that well.
 
My strangest shot was with my mosin. About 75 yards, had to full pop cans sitting about 3 inches apart. I was the only one shooting of my group of friends, aimed at the left can, shot, and exploded BOTH of said cans. To this day I'm still not sure how.
 
i was shooting trap with my buddy with my do all clay thrower you attach to the trailer hitch of your truck. i was reloading at my hip when my buddy accidently pulled the cord launching the clay. instinctively i shot from the hip at it and some how managed to powder the clay. if only some one was recording
 
**warning** what you are about to read is neither legal, nor would I condone doing it. As a highschool lad I figured it was ok....kids.:eek:

Anyway, I had the trusty ol' NEF single shot 20 gauge across my lap as I was tooling down a gravel road via a 70cc Honda 3 wheeler on my way to my dove hunting spot toward sundown. At about 30mph I noticed a dove flying from right to left about 30ish yards ahead of me across the road. I switched my left hand to the right side handle bar and throttle, and grabbed the shotgun with the right hand. One handed, full throttle, knocked the dove out of the air mid flight. Couldn't and wouldn't ever do that again.
 
my buddy's dad was sitting on the latrine at the lease one season. luckily for him the door had fallen off its hinges not too long before hand. he had a buck wnader out 30 yards from the toilet. he picked up his .30-06 and blew it out of the water. all while his pants were still around his ankles
 
Actually, its the strangest one I ever saw.
Maybe 25 years ago my father had a large commercial spa put into an added room on the east end of our house. My mother had had a number of surgeries and was to have water therapy every day for two years in town. We're 40 miles from town, so after adding it all up, it was less expensive to pay $4,000.00 for the spa and about $1,800.00 to have the room built than go to town every day for two years, but that was 25 years ago.

So the spa had been emptied for maintenence, Ma had just driven Dad back home from the dentist that morning with 4 new wisdom tooth holes in his jaw, and they really had him doped up big time.

Ma gets him into bed and half an hour later she walks through their bedroom and back into the spa room and hollers that there's a weasel in the spa room! Its dead winter so that weasel was snow white. I bounce the bed up and down to wake Dad up. I was just 8 years old and I wasn't about to go challenge that weasel.

So Dad gets out of bed, staggers back to the gun room, takes a Remington .22 pump off the wall, goes to the spa room, wobbles around taking aim and drops the weasel with one shot. He hands me the rifle and flops back into bed.

Three hours later he gets up and Ma starts raking him big time for shooting at a weasel that was IN the spa on the second step down. "What if you had missed or the bullet had gone through the weasel into that spa!?!?"

"Weasel? What weasel?" He was clueless! Those meds they gave him to knock him out for 8 hours left him without any memory of the whole thing.
How he managed to drill that weasel wobbling around like he was is a miracle... not to mention that hollowpoint hit just right enough to not pass through the weasel!
 
I was walking down a dirt two track road one evening carrying my Glock 20 10mm when I spotted a rabbit sitting beside the road about 10 yards away. As I was trying to slowly draw my gun the rabbit spooked and darted across the road. I swung and fired two quick shots, the second shot rolled him at about 15 yards. Upon inspection I found aside from the massive hole in his side, he also had a .40 caliber hole through both of his ears. Made me feel a little like Ted Nugent.
 
Youngda9, I was shooting outside but I was under shade and the balls were in the open. Backdrop was red and brown clay and the balls were sitting on a dark brown wooden berm, perfect little glowing whites.
 
Daisey BB gun on wood borer bees in the early summer when they are boring holes in my deck and facia. Also use a badmitton racket. The Chesapeake thinks she should retrieve them, but usually eats them! Great fun!
 
Aluminum soda cans at 75 measured yds. with Beeman R9 .177 cal. 3X9 Bushnell Sportsman scope, Beeman Kodiak Match Pellets 14 grs @ 750 fps chrono'ed.
 
I can't compete with a lot of these stories, but I was shooting a 45 pistol at one of those surveyor type flags. The little plastic flag on a wire that they stick in the ground to mark buried utility lines. I shot the flag all up from about 10-15 yards and then bet my brother and dad that I could also hit the wire. Hit it on the first shot, but I was surprised that it did not break it. It makes sense now though.

My dad also was able to hit a bowling pin at 100 yards with his 1911 on his 2nd shot.
 
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