Longest Confirmed Shot?

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I can't wait to be 1/4 as good as some of you guys.

My best shot? Bullseye on a 14" target at 50 yards.

Ok stop laughing. This was on Friday; the first time I ever shot a rifle, and it was an old SKS with stock sites that I bought for a whopping $139.00

And I'm almost blind in my right eye, which is what I was trying to sight with...I think I'm going to need a scope to even SEE a big orange target at 75 yards.

Oh well, it was still the highlight of the week:D
 
Oh well, it was still the highlight of the week
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Thats all that matters;)

I have shot praire dogs around ~300 yards, benchrest and all the goodies
Little white tailed deer ~125 yards mod. 70 .243 sitting and calm 3-9 scope
Tony
 
:D Redneck2, one question, with respect to "I have three friends that all have certificates for getting prarie dogs at 1,000 yards or better.": Was the PD that was hit the same one that was aimed at? :D

Art
 
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.
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I read the book "Jarhead" in which the author, reputedly a Marine Sniper, wrote that they were expected to shoot dime sized groups at 1,000 meters. I posted that on the Firing Line forum at Jouster to find out how likely it was to be true, and was told that the world record for a five shot group is 2 point something inches (and some other choice words about the author).

So while "dime sized" isn't an option, can you imagine shooting under 3" groups at 1,000 yards? I mean, the guy probably puts them all in one hole at "only" 300 yards!
 
I can't wait to be 1/4 as good as some of you guys.

My best shot? Bullseye on a 14" target at 50 yards.

Ok stop laughing. This was on Friday; the first time I ever shot a rifle, and it was an old SKS with stock sites that I bought for a whopping $139.00

And I'm almost blind in my right eye, which is what I was trying to sight with...I think I'm going to need a scope to even SEE a big orange target at 75 yards.

Oh well, it was still the highlight of the week:D
 
I've never shot paper past 300, but the max distances I've "rang the bell" on a 12"x12"steel plate in different calibers.

.50BMG: 900 yards - Windrunner XM107
.300WM: 900 yards - Remmy 700 custom build
.308: 900 yards - Remmy 700 rebuilt and rebarreled PSS
.223: 600 yards - Remmy 700 custom build

Probably could have gone farter with the .50 and .300, but 900 was the max distance at the range. I'm pretty sure 900 was the best I could do with the .308 since I was only shooting about 66% at that range. With the larger guns, I was doing better than 90%.
 
Spot77, don't worry. There's plenty of us that want to be 1/4 as good as some of these guys (and gals). Well, here's my best confirmed:

Last week BamBam-31 and I went out to the range on a weekday and had the entire rifle range to ourselves. It was great, as I was finally getting the hang of my M39 Mosin Nagant. I was making 1.5" groups at 50 yards consistantly, which is good for me. Then I started taking out bowling pins at the same range. The range-master only came down out of the shade one time to check up on us and told us all the measured distances. I think it was a friendly suggestion to challenge ourselves, so I looked down range and someone had left two bowling pins standing at 165 yards. Beyond that at 175 yards some also left four bright orange clay pigeons. I just figured the guy who set them up couldn't knock them down (more of a challenge :D ).

Well, I'm down to my last five rounds and since I'm doing well, I figure I'll adjust the rear sight on my M39 for 200 meters (or is it yards; I don't know offhand and actually have never moved it before).

First shot: One bowling pin disappears! :)

Second shot: The other bowling pin goes down and I spot it rolling down the embankment! :D

Third and fourth shots: Dirt flies up near the clay pigeon. :eek:

Last shot: Said BamBam-31: "Wow, I just saw the orange disintegrate!"

Too bad I was aiming for the clay pigeon placed about one foot directly above it . . .:rolleyes:
 
I practice everyweek at 150yards with my .17HMR
I can pick off bull frogs at 150, birds at 200, and on a calm day rabbits at 250-300. (Marlin .17HMR 22" Heavy Barel with a 3X9 scope)
Not many prarie dogs around here, but there are plenty of other things to shoot at.
 
Hey Spot: can you learn to shoot left handed? or left-eyed? still need a scope to see anything and my eyes aren't that bad-just old. I can see the target but not the sights-or vice versa.

Usta shoot at qt oil cans-anyone remember them?-at 200yds- with open sighted 4" .357's. Never hit any but we had a ball trying!
 
I shot a satellite down with an AR while spraying from the hip. Good thing it was post-ban, or else I might have hurt some children!

More seriously, though, I've never hunted critters, but I've killed paper at 300m with an M16 and with an M4, both with irons. My farthest pistol shot was 75yd, I think, with a Beretta 92FS ... it was one of about five shots to hit a 2L bottle. That's really all the long-range stuff I've had opportunity for. I'm quite lucky if I can get somewhere and have 100m available to shoot!
 
I've never shot GAME animals at more than 350 yards(I think) but I never lost one either! I shot a ground squirrel or two at 600+ yards with a .22-250 custom with 6-24 scope, but wind was right and I was lucky. Longest shot ever on a animule was at a Coyote with a 7mm mag Ruger #1 I was using 168 grain Sierra match kings at 3000fps with 12x leupold fine reticule. I hit it amid ships and we had to run it down(it was real sick) and shoot it from jeep on a big ranch. That was 20 years back. I did shoot at some people on a hill side across Ashau Valley with a 40 mm Duster: Boffors cannons on a track( Well I watched ) That was 3000meters as I recollect. I can still remember being awed at tracer arc over such incredible distance.
 
Three round cloverleaf at 1373.6 yards with a full auto conversion Romanian SAR-1, fourth round opened the group to 1.4 inches, probably because I had it set to burst fire.

Longest hunting shot was a 516.8 yard eye shot with a laser equipped H&R single shot in .22 Short on a running grizzly in a snow storm, now that was tricky.

Sorry, couldn't resist, I have serious accuracy envy going on here :D
 
Longest shot

My longest on a game animal was a Pronghorn at 440 paces. I figured it was 420 yards. Only after a 500 yard crawl over a 2" high grass pasture. My longest shot was in 1971- 23 Kilometers,from a 175 mm Howitzer.F.S.B. J.J.Caroll to a bridge somewhere No. of there.(it took 42 rounds for a direct hit!)
 
I hit a life-sized metal silhouette of a prairie dog at 84 yards offhand.

That was using a .20 caliber Beeman R1 air rifle with aperture sights.

...it might have taken me a few shots to figure out the hold-over. ;)

...ok, it might have been as many as 10 shots...
 
Just a note: The Canadian sniper was aiming for the ENGINE BLOCK and fired 6 rounds before hitting the driver.

Still a hell of a shot against a moving target, using a weapon not intended for extreme precision (3 MOA, IIRC), but rather for anti-materiel shooting. And you take your confirmed kills where you get them.

But Gunny Carlos still holds the record on intended shots.

Info courtesy Commander, US Army Sniper School when I interviewed him in July.

My longest...400 yards, stock H&R cotnract M-16, as many times as you care to raise the target. Haven't shot further. Sure I could.

Best live target...70 yards, longbow, deer. Back of skull. I confess to a certain amount of luck.
 
My longest confirmed shots were at 800 yds. on siluettes while attending Presicion Rifle 2 at Thunder Ranch. That was with 308 GMM (168) in a stock Rem PSS.

My most impressive shot was at 640 yds. using a stock, iron sighted M1A and Portuguese surplus. I dusted a claybird on the first shot! I couldn't even see the bird without optics. It was centered on a freshly cut tree stump so I sighted on that and gave myself an extra click or two.
Now, I'm not a bad shot but I know there was a heaping portion of luck in that shot! I quit for the afternoon after that one. :D
 
Hmmmm....not as much rifle experience as the rest of you gentlemen but here are two separate instances with smaller weapons

1. 10 inch sighter gong at 100 yards. From a standing position with a Colt Mk IV Series 70 in .45 ACP, hit it 2 times in 3 shots. No sighter shots. These were the first rounds fired that day at that distance.

2. From a braced standing position (leaning against a large fence post), hit x-ring on a 25 yard NRA slow fire pistol target at 200 yards with a MAC 10 on semi-auto. Pretty crude sights, so went through about 8-10 rounds before I could do that. More luck than the previous example, but it's nice to know that it CAN be done.

FWIW,


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