What are the farthest and closet shots kill shot made

[sask clayton]

I would have paid to watch that!!

 

[tark]

Sent you a PM big bore but if you didn't get it, I would really like to Yak at you. Shoot me another PM if you didn't get mine and I'll figure out what I did wrong. I am computer stupid.

 

[Traffer]

first deer

Well I got my first deer at the age of 13 yrs old. Had a Model 1917 Enfield not sporterized. It had that wonderful peep sight. I can't remember what it was sighted in for, (the main sight not flipped up for long range). I had the ballistics memorized within reasonable range. Opening day of season I was standing on the bottom of a hill with a friend. It was clear to the top of the hill where a woods started, (about 350 to 400 yards). A deer came out and my friend took a shot. The deer just stood there. He shot again, deer just stood there. I pulled up my ought 6 and aimed a yardstick above his back. (I calculated a 39" drop at that distance) I shot the deer went down. I hit it in the spine 5" to the right of my hold. We paced off the distance with my one yard stride (I used to practice one yard strides for measuring distances. That came in handy when I studied forestry) 365 yards. Not bad for my fist deer at 13 yrs old. My closest deer shot was about 80 yards. In the swamp, big buck was sneak walking fast. I shot and missed. (I am really bad at hitting moving targets). He turned to run straight away and I yelled as loud as I could, "STOP." He stopped turned and looked at me broad side. I shot him then. My brother came, after hearing the shot. He asked "what was that noise, did you yell or something?" I told him that I yelled stop. My brother still ridicules me for that. But hey it worked!

 

[Traffer]

Hi tark, I was a tank gunner too in Germany from 71 to 73 and on the same tank ranges you were on. I have run range 80 several times. I have seen Deer shot on the range too but with 50 Cal. My longest one shot hit on a tank with a 105mm M60 A1 tank was 3600 meters. those were the days. Sorry for getting off track here. (Any one notice the pun?)

A friend of mine was a tank crew member. (I don't know much about tank crew) He was taught how to range a gun but never fired one. He told me a story of when a General came to inspect (surprise inspection?). The guy who normally would fire the gun was not there. The General wanted them to "shoot that tree out there" I don't remember how far it was. So my friend who had never fired a 105 targeted the tree, they took the shot and to his surprise he actually hit the tree. I thought that was a cool story.

 

[onelastshot]

My longest shot was an Elk in northern Montana, 525 yards using a 270 grain partition my Colt Sauer in 375 H&H. The shortest was whitetail hunting using a marlin in 444; shot the buck at five feet and knocked him clear off of his feet. He was dead before he hit the ground.

 

[WestKentucky]

Longest...bad range estimation and flinch worked together. 16 years old, shot a small whitetail buck at 600 with a .270 win.

Shot a tame duck off of a pond with a 6" .357 at almost 200 once (3 shots)

Shot a doe with a bow once at 2 yards...had to let her get further away to draw at that. This year's 8pt was at 7 yards with a colt delta elite. And last but not least a headshot on a squirrel at about 4 ft with a 12 ga.

 

[LeonCarr]

Farthest - 230 yards, 6 Point Whitetail Buck in West Texas, Winchester Model 70 Varmint .308 with 3-9 Redfield, shooting handloaded 150 Grain Sierra Gamekings at 2900 fps, DRT. I have hunted West Texas a lot and still the farthest shot I have been presented with was 230 yards in the cedars and mesquites I hunt.

Closest - Contact, hog in trap, right behind the ear with a Ruger GP-100 .357 Magnum loaded with handloaded .38 Special hard cast 148 DEWCs at about 700 fps. DRT.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Closest - I shot a small whitetail doe at about 6-7 steps.

Farthest - I have shot 2 whitetails at between 150-175 yards. One was with a .30-06 an the other with a muzzleloader. I'm proud of that BP shot that far, even though it was with a modern inline and a scope.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

I shot a flying carpenter bee at about 3 ft with a Ruger MKII the one and only time I tried it. Do I get anything for that?...lol

 

[Nwflycaster]

MCMXI,

That would be because about 40 years ago I was a dumbass teenager.

 

[MCMXI]

That would be because about 40 years ago I was a dumbass teenager.

Good point. I really enjoyed photographing hummingbirds at my house this year. They're about the size of my thumb and I shot a bunch with my camera!

 

[CB900F]

Fella's;

The O.P. is Big Bore, but I'm gonna go t'other way. Closest shot was maybe 6 inches, at the most, possibly closer. It was literally between my feet. The gun was a CZ452 American in .22 long rifle & the varmint was a Montana "gopher". I looked down after making another shot & there he was. Couldn't pass it up. His head was in the hole that I was straddling.

The farthest, same gun, same varmint, was a witnessed & lazed 176 yards. One shot, cold barrel.

For centerfire, it was my Winchester model 70 Classic .30-06 on a pronghorn at 470 yards.

900F

 

[Snowbank!]

Farthest: 600-700 yds , bull elk, 7mag 175 gr bullet. Dumbest elk on earth. He slept while I fired 9 shots to get the range. He was stretched out head to tail in the fall line. I hit him twice in the head.

Closest: 4 ft, charging cow elk, 7 mag, 175 gr bullet, I was on the trail and it was too steep to be anyplace else. I don't think she ever saw me. It was clearly a situation of self defence.

 

[redneck]

Shortest: Had a racoon in a trap and it bit the end of the barrel on my .22. Does that make the distance negative?

Actual hunting shots
Shortest-
15 ft on a whitetail deer. Compound bow shooting 100 grain muzzy on an easton raider arrow.

Longest-
Whitetail buck at roughly 80 yards. mossberg 500 12 gauge with remington copper solid sabot slug.

 

[CajunBass]

I'm an old buckshot/shotgun hunter, so my long and short aren't far apart.

I guess my longest shot, on a deer, was about 40 yards. The closest, I don't know...maybe 10...really close. I missed one even closer once, when the entire charge of shot went into a poplar tree that jumped in front of it.

I have killed squirrels at longer ranges with a 22. I stepped one shot off at 75 PACES (not yards)...that was about the longest.

When I was a kid, I once shot a rabbit right at my feet with a charge of #6 shot. The front of that rabbit just turned to mush. Took a knife and cut it off behind the front legs and threw that half away.

 

[hdbiker]

No long shots where I hunt but my closest shot kill was a public land fork horn buck running full speed at 3 feet,FROM THE HIP !!!! I think if I hadn't shot it would have run over me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hdbiker

 

[caribou]

Hmmmmmmmmm.......Hundreds of Bull Caribou with a .22lr from 5-20 feet away as they swim packed in herds of 50+ crossing from willow lined banks to willow lined banks, chosen and shot, an instant death and no pass throughs to wound other Caribou in the tightly packed bunches, no scaring and no separating calfs from cows to boot, and the meats are worked cleanly on shore. Meat Hunting at its best.

Winter on the wide open treeless, Tundra is harder, the shooting further....., harder to close with an animal, least of all be hidden, and after the first shot, all shots are at running animals as they put distance down.....

Longest shots were at Wolves, 700 yards plus, 7.62x54r, Sako M-39 'cause I dont care where I hit em, just put a bullet through 'em, and go to 'em...
....they are skins to me.

 

[gbran]

My longest? Maybe 425yds, '06 on mullie. Most of my bigger game shots are less than 150. Lots of small varmint shots from rest out to close to 500yds, most however 300ish with 22-250, 204 Ruger.

Strangest shot I ever saw, was 45+ years ago as a teen out in the boonies hunting birds, my friend borrowed a shotgun from me and a H&R 9 shot 22 snubbie from my dad.

He pulled the 22 and took a wild shot at a small bird on a high wire, 100+ yards? He hit the bird, but that isn't the end of the story...... the bird was somebody's pet parakeet.

 

[waffentomas]

My farthest shot was on an elk in Idaho. 603 yards with a .308. Load was 43gr of 748 under a 180r WW Failsafe bullet, Nikon Monarch Gold scope 2.5-10 x 50mm, Weatherby Vanguard rifle: It's the same, and only rifle I've ever hunted with, and I've killed a lot of game with it. Got lots of semis, but only one hunting rifle. I was waiting for the sun to come up, watching a hillside. It was cold as hell. When the sun hit the hillside it was like the whole mountain got up and moved. There was a herd of hundreds there bedded down, and they never made a sound that I could hear. I picked out a big boy and hit him with the first shot. He was a moose like 5x5 with thick, black antlers. Now, before I get the "that's too far for a .308 shot, ethically speaking" flame. I know my ballistic table well, and wind was negligible. If memory serves, bullet drop was around 60+ inches. Plus, I am a graduate of the USMC S/S school Quantico...so I have some training... I was stationary, sitting, and settled, though cold. Shot him him in the liver and he rolled over and died after only 90 seconds or so.

Shortest shot was the same load and rifle, 10 years earlier. After avoiding encountering a pack of nearby wolves (they were not legal to hunt yet in Idaho), I was walking down a game trail when a herd ran right past me, and covered me in their dust. The elk I shot was less than 5 feet away. She was running full bore from one of the other members of my hunting group, right to left. I never had time to aim or anything, just threw it up on my shoulder and pulled the trigger, and she dropped in a heap from a double lung shot and died not 10 feet from me. A couple seconds later I hear "Nice shot Tommy!!" My good friend had scared up this herd and was tracking the same cow I shot in his scope. Literally, I shot her out of his scope.

 

[1911 guy]

Same rifle, same farm, consecutive deer seasons. Shot one at just shy of 400 yards, another at about 15 feet.

Anybody else have "streaks" in their deer hunting? I seem to go several years getting skunked, then several years of filling tags, and so on. Skunked this year.

 

[Big-Bore]

If we want to talk about unusual hunting, I was invited to hunt on an exclusive club on the Eastern Shore in Maryland one year. Members only on first day. I arrived at lodge the first evening. Next morning got dropped off a stand in a swamp, no more thean 15 minutes I shot the largest Buck ever killed at the club. That same evening I went back out to the same tree stand and again with in 15 minutes shot a larger deer. Now I have killed to two largest deer ever on the property. A member took over that stand for the next morning and I was forced to use a remote stand deep in the swamp, they droped mff just before sun up and again with in 15 minutes I shot a larger deer. Now I have killed the 3 largest deer. When they came to pick me up they did not know I shot. They summoned toward the vehicle but I told them I need help getting the deer. At first they did not believe I had shot another one so just one man got out to look, the deer was laying in the water with only his head and antlers out, the he saw him, he took off his hat and thru it down and just said "Damn" then all the other guys came running other and they were a bit upset I had shot the 3 best deer ever taken there, a few of the guys started to friendly punch in in the shoulder. We got back to the lodge and I did not feel too welcome any more. I could have stayed longer but I thought I had better leave. One of the member asked me If I was going stay and hunt that evening , where would I go, I told him and then he asked if he could use my rifle, I let him. When he return the rifle to me a few days later he said he killed a deer just where and when I said to hunt. I sure wish it was always like that but 30 years later I have many dry streaks and many days in a deer stand with no deer.

 

[double bogey]

Deer, farthest 275yds, 7mm mag. Lucky I hit him, I was a little winded from moving 1/2 mile closer than when I saw him. Best buck I ever took, 146 inches. Texas hill country.
Closest, 12ft, Winchester mod1 12 ga. buckshot. Running right at me being chased by a small beagle on a dog hunt near Eufala Ala. Front feet stopped, back feet kept moving, did a somersault and stopped right at my feet. We had been out on this set for a while, I was trying to catch the beagle, as this set was over.

Slingshot, a blackbird at 65 ft. Using a wire slingshot from the dime store and a BB. I was a good shot but that was lucky.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

3 yards, buck, .530 patched round ball with 70 grains of 3Fg from a flintlock. 110 yards, same load, same rifle, on a doe.

LD

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Longest, a 300 yard head shot on a pronghorn (I was aiming at the shoulder, but didn't take wind into account. Don't tell anybody I was hunting with). It was as close as I could get. 1903 Springfield 25-06, 100 grain Nosler Ballistic tip, MV 3300 FPS.

Same rifle and load, a walking coyote at a lasered 500 yards, missed the first shot by leading him. Next shot dropped him. A week later, another coyote in almost the same place, but 50 yards further. I was squeezing the trigger when he turned directly away from me, bad move on his part.

(Note: all three of these shots came within a few weeks of each other, and I had done a LOT of load development in anticipation of pronghorn season.)

Closest I remember: a cow elk at about 30 feet with another 1903 Springfield, this one in 30-06, 180 grain bullet, probably one of my dad's handloads, so max load of 4831. I was on top of a rock maybe ten feet in the air, and she walked below me and never saw me. Hit her in the spine and she rared up and dropped right there.

 

[splattergun]

Longest kill shot, 460 yds, up hill on mule deer. -30-06 150 gn
Shortest kill shot, 17 paces, on mule deer. 30-06 150 gn. In one ear, out the other ear.

2 feet on house fly with rubber band. DRT