Tall Tales...

I feel like that guy might string the bow backwards. One of my goals for shooting my M16 A-Forgery is to hit a clay bird at 200 yards with the iron sights. It’s a lofty goal and I haven’t tried it yet. I’m not even sure I can see it at 200 yards. A softball on anything other than a perfect background would be very tough to see let alone hit.

Golf balls at 25 yards with a pistol are pretty rough targets. The local range has a couple laying on the berm. I can hit them once or twice from a 10 round magazine. The best I’ve seen is about half the time and that’s from the range master and the local pro, who was an Olympic class pistol shooter in his younger days. Everyone uses dedicated target pistols to even have a chance.
 
A 1 5/8" golf ball at 15 yards? I compute that to be 3/10ths of an M.o.A. Maybe I could see that golf ball as a speck of white against the snow, but that's about it.
 
Seedy Character said:
I had not bow hunted in 10 years, due to having a cancerous tumor removed from my right forearm. The muscle had been cut and pulling a was very painful.

I decided to buy a crossbow. Was at work and talking how much I liked the crossbow, was really looking forward to deer season.

A co-worker starts in on how a crossbow is an unfair advantage. Real men use a long bow. He shoots the exact same bow that his Great-great-grandfather hunted buffalo with.

He used hand made cedar arrows and could hit a softball at 200 yards. He had shot 1 deer at 450 yards, the deer was running and he had to lead it 26 1/2' for a perfect heart shot. 27' and he would miss. 26' and he would have a gut shot deer to track. But, it was an easy shot for him, since he shot 100 arrows every day and had using that bow for 40 years, since he was 2 years old and had killed his first deer at 4 years old.
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I got second place in our state longbow championships a couple of years ago (age grouped). A good 20 yard longbow group for me is about 3". More typical groups are 5". And of course, longbows being longbows, occasionally one will end up a foot away from the bull.

In archery, as in firearms, competition records every shot, which invariably shows you to be worse than you thought. Or, put more bluntly, I'll believe that he once hit a softball at 200 yards...
 
I can hit the center of the ace of spades once and than put another bullet thru the same hole. Did that on a bet and won many times, but never with the same guy.
 
I started shooting IHMSA handgun silhouette with a S&W Model 19. It was all I had at the time that was capable for silhouette. I shot standing and revolver class with it. I was practicing for a match and discovered the forcing cone on the Model 19 was cracked putting the gun out of action for the moment. And yes you can crack the forcing cone with a steady diet of 158 grain full power 357 Magnum rounds.

I wanted to shoot the match, so I pressed my Model 25-5 (45 Colt) into service. Out to 150 meters (turkeys), I had enough sight adjustment for the slow moving 45 Colt round but not so for the 200 meter rams. I had to hold over the berm about 20 feet to hit the ram. The bullet took so long to get to the rams that you could almost eat lunch while waiting for the hit.

But, the up side, the momentum of the slow moving, heavy bullet was such that almost any hit anywhere on the ram took it down. During the match, I had one round that appeared to hit a distance in front of the ram and then bounced into the ram taking it down. Maybe it hit the ram first and I was seeing the ricochet splash in front of the ram before the ram fell. But I'm going to stick with the story that I took the ram down on the bounce.
 
cfullgraf said:
I had one round that appeared to hit a distance in front of the ram and then bounced into the ram taking it down. Maybe it hit the ram first and I was seeing the ricochet splash in front of the ram before the ram fell. But I'm going to stick with the story that I took the ram down on the bounce.
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I believe it. I've seen it happen with my own eyes. Once I watched through my binoculars as my wife took down a 200-meter ram with a bounced bullet from her Ruger 10.5" .44 Magnum. It kind of made up for the danged hard-set 100-meter Boise pig she dead centered with a bullet from the same gun - and the pig just wobbled a bit but remained standing. :neener:
 
I feel blessed that the internet did not exist when I started to shoot pistol competitions. My self esteem would have been shattered so much, that I would have never entered a single match . There are forums where members claim that three inch groups at 25 yards with a sub compact self defense pistol are the standard and anything less is clearly showing that there is something wrong with the gun, or gun & ammo combo.
On the other hand, I would not need to dust off those trophies.
 
Pat Riot said:
I can shoot a .38 bullet right through the center of a 1/2” washer if you toss it up in the air
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I shoot through 3/8" washers with a 9mm regularly. 50 yards and I know I shot through them because I've never hit one yet.

I've actually made some pretty miraculous shots in the past, and I'll tell people about them...but I'll disclose that it's not something likely to ever happen again. I've had more that were throwing objects at something than shooting at them.

Took off my sock, rolled it up and splattered a moth on the TV screen while I was still lying down on the couch.

Flipped a bottle cap and turned off an old console TV on the first try.

Neighbor had an aggressive old rooster that would come in my hard and try to thump anyone in my yard. It chased mama and the kid into the house one day and I'd had enough. Illegal to discharge firearms in my "village" limits, so I went out with a ball bat. It kept crowing and strutting but stayed out of range. Grabbed a hot wheels car out of the kid's sandbox and put a headshot on that rooster from about 15'. Thought I'd KO'd him but nope...D.O.A.
I haven't shared that story outside of my family but I believe the statute of limitations has expired.
 
Truth! In basic training 1967 Ft. Ord they were pushing a technique called “Quick Kill”.

The idea was to take a quick snap shot with both eyes open, just looking over the barrel, no sights. Good for up to 50 yards or so.

As part of the training they would toss circles of metal in the air and we would shoot at them in the air with BB guns using this technique. After awhile you could pretty regularly hit quarter size disks.

Now that was with 18 y.o. eyes and 18 y.o. reflex’s, but was actually true. I later used that training to take a deer when not long out of the Army.
 
Two shots that come to mind. Both really happened, but don't ask me to do either again because I know exactly how much luck was involved.
First, a friend and I were shooting in a hayfield and he stuck a 12 gauge shell between two haybales. I slung up in prone and put a .22 bullet through the primer. I dug it out of the bales, realized that was a bad idea becasue of all the scorching in the hay from burning powder. I kept the shell for years until I lost it in a move.
Second, I bought a .45ACP Springfield XD. Went to the range with my dad and put the first round fired through a 1" sticky dot at 25 yards.
Now, I'll tell you what my normal shooting is. Rifles 2MOA out to 200, 4 MOA out to 500 Handguns tennis ball sized groups slow offhand fire out to 25 yards. So those two shots happened, but certainly not the norm.
 
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