The best shot you've ever seen.

[Smith357]

I shot a bee that landed on my target while I was bench testing 100 yard loads for my 14" .223 T/C. The target had 3 shots in a nice ragged hole and one flyer with a wing and a smear next to it.

The best I ever saw was one of the old men at the range quick drew his 1st generation SAA and broke 5 clay birds at varing distances from 25 to 50 yards as fast as he could work the action.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

When I was just learning to shoot a bow, I bought all the right equipment and did well from the start, better in fact than I had with any of my firearms, to my chagrin. One day while at the range with my brother, he commented on my groups. I told him "This one's going dead center." It did and he hooted something like, "Betcha can't do that again!" I told him "Here goes another!" The arrow made a strange sound and we couldn't see where it went. Another look from an angle told the story. It was sticking out the ass-end of the first. The guy that ran the range wanted to mount it on his wall as he had everyone else's that did it, but I had other ideas. The 2 arrows, now one, grace the wall above my computer, the symbol of the finest shot I've ever made. Haven't shot a bow in years, now, as firearms are now as ever, my first love. I've fired several shots from my .45s that simply widened existing holes a bit, but paper targets make lousy trophies.

 

[Steve 48]

Best shot I ever made was a Prairie Dog at 546 yards. The second best was a crow with a 22 pistol when it was flying. I'll never repeat those 2 shots. Steve 48

 

[Mantis]

I was at Williamsport in PA a couple of years ago to try a 1000 yd Bench rest match for the first time. The match got called off due to rain and 30+MPH winds. After the rain stopped, my friend Bruce and I went to the line to take some shots just for fun, since neither of us had ever shot at 1000 yds before. There were a couple of guys already shooting for fun, and I asked them if they wanted us to drive down to the pits and hang some targets for them. They said, "No thanks, we are shooting at the clay birds on the berm." WHAT!!?? Sure enough, watching through my spotting scope I saw them regularly busting standard sized clay birds.

We I couldn't pass up on this fun, so we had to give it a try. Bruce went first. He took about 20 shots and came close, but couldn't hit one. Then it was my turn. I pulled out my Rem 700 VS .308 and a box of my hand loaded 175 SMK rounds. The winds were still 30+MPH and not letting up. My scope ran out of elevation at about 900 yds, so I had to guess at how much to hold over and how much windage to use in order to lob the rounds in at 1,000 yds. There was a stand of trees on top of the berm, so I picked a knot about 10 ft up in a tree to aim at. I said, "Don't worry Bruce, I'll get that bird for you", and pulled the trigger. About 2 seconds later, we saw the bird explode. The actual distance was 1,034 yds. Definitely a lucky shot, but it was fun anyway. If I was smart, I would have put the rifle away after that shot and pretended that it was no big deal, instead of jumping up and down like a little kid.

 

[Q-Lock]

"If I was smart, I would have put the rifle away after that shot and pretended that it was no big deal, instead of jumping up and down like a little kid."

LOL, now that got the co-workers wondering what I was reading.

 

[pete f]

Brother's brother in law, nice guy, can not hit a thing with a shotgun. He misses ducks with the wings set. Put 6 pellets into my last dog instead of the pheasant a good twenty feet over the dogs head, dog was fine, just annoyed. Took three shots to pot a grouse that was sitting in a tree branch, using a 20 gauge. Doug is not a dufus, he is good softball player on good team, excellent down hill skier, plays club level hockey.

We went up near on the Iron Range to visit a guy from college, he has a old pit mine near his house and we went out to shoot clays seeing it was summer and everything was out of season. I had my old Winchester 190 .22 in the car too. Doug, brother's brother in law, decides to start shooting cattails on the edge of a little slough at the bottom of the pit. This is the guy who can not hit water from a dingy with a shotgun, missed the side of the barn, while in the hayloft. He looks at a cattail. SNAP cattail puffs. Does it again. SNAP puff. HMMMM I ask did you get new glasses? He laughs at me. Keeps doing it. We get the clay launcher hooked up on the trailer hitch of buddies truck, buddy sits on the little seat and I yell pull and off a pidgeon sails, BOOM it keeps sailing SNAP it puffs. WTH I look over at Doug, "Did you shoot? He shrugs. "Pull," just before I smoke that bird it PUFFs. Now I am looking around for candid camera. NO WAY this guy can hit two in a row shooting anything. These are like shooting trap, basically longer shots at targets going more or less straight away. Five more times, no misses, he pops clays with that .22. He moved way off to the side, shooting as if he is pass shooting teals, SNAP puff SNAP puff. Finally he missed. He reloaded the tube and did not miss a shot.

I hand him the shotgun. ELEVEN misses in a row. Buddy is laughing hysterically by now, can hardly pull back the launcher. Doug puts shottie away and picks up .22 SNAP puff.

Buddy now is in danger of wetting himself. He goes in bed of pickup and pulls out his 870 with a rifle sight slug barrel on it. Loads a couple of 8's in the slugger and hands it to doug. Doug hits two clays. Reloads same results. Apparently having a real sights lets him hit his spots.

First day of grouse hunting, guess who was walking thru the woods carrying a slug gun. guess who hit four of four. not me.


Another topic. A former Twin City gunsmith, had a Sako action with a truck axle sized barrel in .17 rem. He used to say that he had threaded the barrel to fit the action and just decided to try it as it was. It shot one holers all day long after that he decided that tapering the barrel was not so important anymore. I watched him at the old Moon Valley shooting range put grape jelly on a target, wait for a fly to land on the target and walk to the jelly, then cut the Fly in half. Someone said no way, that was pure luck, just then a yellow jacket landed to see what was going on. He cut that one in half too. Then he packed up the rifle and went home. I have to believe it was pure luck but twice in a minute or two. It was impressive.



I have seen video of a A-10 driver hitting a SAM after it came off the launcher. It was on the military channel one night. You see a plume and a split second later about 40 to 50 feet off the launch rail a big explosion. It was gun camera footage and it only last a few seconds but it is clear that he was going to 'gun" the launcher and he jerks back on the stick as the plume erupts and the missle explodes. I have no idea of the launch speed of something like that, but it has to be tremendous.

Same night, footage of a F15 E driver hitting a helo with a 2000 pounder Laser guided, while the helo was airborne. Not a chance shot, but a called one. You can clearly hear the Weapons Officer state that he was painting the helo with the laser.

 

[Hugo]

I didnt see this with my own eyes but somewhere on the Internet are detailed pictures and info about someone shooting between 2 expensive wristwatches at about 100 yards in some underground mine converted to storage/parking. I think the link to it was on this Forum but not sure, lost the bookmark. The contest was if he shot a bullet into a quarter sized target between the fancy watches he got to keep them both. He did. I think the Mine was granite or limestone, could have been in North Carolina or something. It wasnt a pit type mine either, looked well set up with lights, painted lines on pavement and everything. Anyone know of this?

 

[HarryB]

From the TFL files

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33286&highlight=david+tank

The Gale McMillan shot...

I was demonstrating a fifty to the crown Prince of Jordon and after the demo which was at 300 yards I had let all the officers shoot and when the general had finished he asked me if I could hit that tank over there. I said I don't see any tank and he pointed it out. I asked him how far it was and he said it was 2000 meters. I told him I didn't think so but I would try. I cranked the scope to the top and what I was going to do was to fire one and get back on the target and dope off the dust and try to luck the second shot in. They tank was a shot out Israeli tank that still had the star of David on the turret . The mirage was running heavy so I held a tank length to the side and touched it off. The API flashed right in the center of the star of David and I set a record getting the rifle disassembled and in the case before he could ask me to repeat it.