Longest Confirmed Shot?

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I was reading an article I found on the web a while back about a guy who killed an antelope at over 1000 yds. He had a buddy there with a range finder that confirmed this. I think it was somewhere around 1100. This got me to thinking. I've never had the opportunity (especially around these parts) to take a shot that far, nor would I even attempt it. I've had the opportunity to take maybe one shot at over 500 yds. but declined. I am an avid hunter but no expert marksman in anyone's book. My question is: what is your longest confirmed shot whether it be at a pie plate or game?

Newt
 
I can't even see 1100 yards! ! ! !

Seriously, though, my longest game shot is a measured (using the 1-yard per step method) 179 Yds on a white-tail using a scoped Marlin lever action in .35Rem. Next longest is 75 Yds using a reproduction 1858 Army Rem 44 BP revolver. Rabbit @50 Yds with my Nylon 66 off a combine cutting soybeans.
 
I hit a large dirt berm at 1000 yards once. Took 3 shots. Seriously.

In my location (the above was in Monahans, TX) it is a rare chance to see more than 3-400 yards (where you can shoot). I don't shoot much at distances over 200-250 yards. Most work is inside 100, maybe inside 75.
 
Newt....You're in Northwest Arkansas?

You need to make the four and half hour drive to here.....

http://www.badlandstactical.net

Them boys down at Grandfield, OK, will fix your need for long-range shooting know-how.

Do an Internet on search on "Steve Suttles" and Vietnam.

He recorded the longest bolt-action rifle kill of the Vietnam war....over 1280 yards. Carlos Hathcock reached out over 2000 yards, but that was with a .50 caliber machine gun, not a bolt action rifle.

Oh yeah, thanks to the classes at Badlands, my longest shot is a 1000 yard hit on an IPSC silhouette with Remington 700 in .308. I've made that particular shot probably 50 times down there.

hillbilly
 
Shot in a couple of 1k BR matches at Quantico this summer thanks to The Virginia 1000yd Benchrest Assoc...unlimited sighters + 5 record shots. Won the factory relay in one of them. It's not all that difficult to hit a 40" target at that distance.

Quite a bit of data for .50cal HTI shooting out to 1500 + yds. And I remember a G. David Tubb video about a 1 mile (1760yd) shot. The .408 Cheyanne Tactical project is claiming consistant sub-MOA groups out to 2000, MOA to 2500.


That's a mighty fur piece of real estate!

S.
 
Longest on critter= Caribou at 650 with a spotter and a laser range finder
Longest on target= Well over 1000 with my .50, and belt gun's....Not all that hard with practice. Especially with a belt gun:)
 
My best was 800 yards with an M-16A2 and PVS-2 Starlight scope. The target was a standard Army 'Ivan' pop-up target with an Chem-light taped to it to help us spot it. I actually hit 5 out of 8 of the targets, but it took nearly an entire 30 round mag to do it.

The targets were suppose to be engaged by the squad's two SAWs, but one didn't have a scope, and the other wasn't zeroed. I was the only one in the squad to have a properly zeroed scope, so I went after the targets when the SAW gunners kept missing.

Frank
 
About 2,400 meters with a training sabot 105mm cannon round from an M60A3 RISE PASSIVE TTS [tank, in other words) - does that count? I had the assistance of a laser rangefinder, crosswind sensor, and the other ballistic calculations done by the fire control system. The M1 is a lot more advanced.

A Canadian sniper using a .50 cal McMillen had a confirmed kill in Afghanistan at 2,430 meters .That's 2,670 yards or about 1.5 miles. The flight time (think the muzzle velocity is about 3,000 fps) would have been three seconds or so.

I shoot my Garand as often as possible in High Power matches at 600 yards. I usually shoot the Danish boat tail, Federal AE, or Federal Match, USGI M2 is pretty tough to hit with at that range/rifle/shooter.
 
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IIRC, that sniper shot was in the chest of a truck driver. Story didn't say if the truck was moving, seems it was in a small convoy. Don't guess moving slowly (heavily loaded, uphill), head-on would , make a lot of difference, but what do I know.

We got 500yds at our club, regularly slam the 30" steel disc with my .270 and 6.5x55. It's a hoot!! The 6.5 drops about 44" @ 500yds.

Long shots on game here would be powerline cut or ridge top to ridge top!
Read years ago about some boys in PA with milsurp range finder and big bores doing that ridge top thing around 1000yds.
 
9 shots Okinawa Marine Corps Rifle Range @ 500m 4.5" with my issue Matel-16 in 1975. 10th shot opened the group to 7". The first nine were in the head of a silouette target and the 10th was a pierced ear.

Nope did not make a smiley face:), just a nice group.
 
I once had the opportunity to shoot an M14 sniper rifle (I don't remember the correct nomenclature, M21 or XM 21 or something like that). Anyway, we were firing from a foxhole with sandbags on a military range with popup targets. I made quite a few shots at 1000 yards.
On big game, my longest shot was probably 75 yards.
A couple years ago I made an aimed shot of 102 yards (I think, we had a rangefinder and lazed it after the fact) on a coyote using a Ruger P89 9mm handgun. This wasn't just a hail mary shot, we do a lot of shooting at longish range with handguns. I spotted the coyote while bird hunting, put my shotgun between my legs, and fired an aimed shot with the appropirate holdover. The coyote began running kind of towards me, but at an angle. I fired several running shots at it and only managed to clip it's front legs twice. It then turned to run down a hill and I shot it through the neck dropping it. The first shot had hit right where I wanted it to, but the 9mm wasn't up to the task.
I have made some pretty long shots on groundhogs using a .22-250 and a Leupold scope on 18X from sandbags. Probably close to 400 yards.
 
on deer 458 yards. (7 rem mag)
coyotes 604 yards. (7 rem mag)
prairie dogs 815 yards. (308 win)
antelopes 104 yards (300 wsm)
paper targets 800 yards (multiple rifles).

think that wraps it up...
 
Pronghorn - 296 yards
coyote - 450 yards.

Both with my 1903 25-06 and Weaver Wideview 3-9 scope.

I have a gunsmith friend who is into 1000 yard benchrest competition. He regularly shoots 6-7" GROUPS at 1000 yards with a .308.

In the early 80's, when my eyesight was much better, I shot IHMSA handgun silhouette. Rams at 200 meters, open sights. My best score was 37x40 with a Wichita 7mm International.
 
I zero my '06 for 200 yard, so the only way I can "know" range is from the holdover for a shot. So far, a holdover of about 3-and-a-little feet was my longest shot on a deer; I figure maybe 450 yards. (For my sight-in, I figure about two feet at 400 and four feet at 500. Roughly.) That's one deer out of over 40 or 50...

:), Art
 
Longest was an antelope.. just over 400 yards but less than 425. LONG ways for me. It was walking when I hit it.

Prettiest was just over 325 in a high wind.

Savage 116 fsak 30.06, handloaded sierra gameking 165gr sbt.
 
Singular shots on a target aren't as indicative of skill as they are of luck. I'd trust Art to put that deer down every time at that range. Other guys might hit a soda can once in 10 shots at 10 feet, but they'll dance around and brag about that one time.

Not sure if any of my experiences even fit in here. A "lucky" shot doesn't even stay in my memory.
 
Jeez, I have a hard time seeing past 100 yards. My furthest shot with a rifle was hitting a milk carton filled with water at 90 yards (using a .22-250). Most of my rifle shots are 50-75 yards at most.
 
Newt;

Longest on a game animal was 470 yards on a pronghorn antelope. Winchester new model 70 stainless with BOSS/CR in a McMillan stock, .30-06. Put the bullet in about 2" from my ideal hit point. He was rolled over dead as I recovered from recoil. Winchester brass, CCI lg rifle primer, 59 gr of IMR 4350 & a 150 gr bullet. Leupold VariX III 3.5 X 10 50mm. Measured, after the shot with a Bushnell yardage pro 800.

Read 'One Shot, One Kill', about Carlos Hathcock. The shot he made was indeed with a Browning M-2. Loaded single shot, using a Unertl 8 power scope he adapted to the MaDeuce. He had also sighted in on the spot earlier. However, the important point is that he did not use the typical belt-fed, 'mow em down' technique, it was a single aimed shot.

900F
 
Two best shots..

when I was 16 I had just gotten my first 22-250, fixed 10x. Calm summer evening. 1/2 grown fox standing at the other end of a 1/4 mile field (440 yards). 0ffside had a hole the size of a golf ball.

Best shot was just 2 years ago deer season. Trotting coyote, 130 yards...with a Remmie 870 rifled barrel, copper solids, 4x. Not bad for a shotgun

I have three friends that all have certificates for getting prarie dogs at 1,000 yards or better.
 
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