What is your "best ever" shot?

[cpttango30]

Best shot was 297yd on a ground squirrel with my Ruger m77 in 220 Swift. This was in an almond orchard out the passanger side of a Jeep Cherokee sport. Best shot seen was one my dad made on a ground squirrel in a palm tree 250 yards with a Sako L461 in 222 rem Blew its head clean off and we watched the last two spurts of blood come out its neck.

Best all around shot. Was a cannon shot with a 2oz tear drop fishing sinker. North or Fort Bliss we were shooting along side of White sands Missle Range. We took this mini civil war era cannon replica out to set off. use 250gr of Pyrodex. I moved the elevation knob all the way down and then proped it up on some flate rocks pointing at a slag pile from a silver mine. Lit the fuse and went behind the van. BOOOOOOOM it went off and we came out and watched, Nothing watched some more nothing, then out of nowhere POOF a small cloud of dust dead center of the slag pile. We must have been at leat 800 yards out. The reaction from everyone was shear amazement.

 

[sscoyote]

This coyote @ 900 yds. with a "handgun"--

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I hit that dog dead center in the chest, and it exited his backbone killing him instantly, sitting from a Harris bipod using a customized soft-sided stadium seat. That was the unluckiest coyote of all time. He now hangs off the side of my bookcase.

The best shooting i ever saw though was by handgun hunting partner Ernie Bishop when he ran 10 in a row on 8" silhouette discs between 585 and 685 yds. in the '04 ITRC comp up in Gillette, WY. Used a custom XP-100 6.5-284/140 A-Max/3-12X Burris BP reticle, short BR bipod, rear sandbag rest.

There was 1 other though that he made that was memorable. We were helping teach the '06 Don Bower Long-Range Handgun Shooting Seminar up in Springview, NE. Ernie pulls out his monster gun--a custom XP-100/7mm Dakota/200 gr. Wildcat ULD bullet/8.5-25X Leup. Mk 4, and zeros it at 250 yds. or so. I bet him he couldn't hit the 1000 yd. 36" gong on the 1st shot. He looks at me kinda stunned, and says he'll take me up on it. Runs the ballistics on his Dell Axim pocket PC. I checked the wind at 10 mph avg. from 3 o'clock. He dials the dope into the Leup., and sets up for the shot off the bench. I'm glassing with my twin 22X WA Spacemaster Big Eyes, and a second or so later he fires. Couple seconds later i see a black spot form on the white silhouette 8" off center @ 4 o'clock. Had to buy him dinner for that 1...but i'll get even soon.

He also killed his elk this last year with the same rig/setup @ an incredible 666 yds. 1 shot, DRT.

 

[jeepmor]

I just hit a beer bottle at 160 yards offhand with my 223 last week. Not a huge success, but my best recent shot offhand. Off the bench, we were popping them like grapes no problem. We'd go further out, but it was the back wall of the gravel pit range.

 

[the lone gunman]

I once shot an elephant in my pajamas,, How he got in my pajamas I ll never know.

 

[santander]

When doves cry...

I took a couple of CO2 air pistols to work one Saturday (shipping facility @ a steel mill). It was slow so a buddy and I passed the time by ridding the warehouse of pidgeons. He shot at one sitting on a beam ~30 yards away and missed. The bird took off and I shot once with it in full flight. It went down hard. Turns out that I hit it in the head. Sure, lucky shot... but it seems that when I was much younger I had a lot more lucky shots than I do now. ;-)

 

[41magsnub]

The craziest shot I ever saw was a quick duck hunting side trip while deer hunting. My dad, an underaged buddy, and I were on the trip. I was either 12 or 13 and my buddy was 11. We saw a stock pond with a bunch of ducks on it so we took a detour.

My dad sends me down carrying his way too big 870 wingmaster 12 gauge and my buddy has my 20 gauge youth model Winchester. We work up a ditch to the pond and are maybe 10' from the ducks on the water. We get ready and charge over the edge of the ditch like WW1 doughboys charging the Germans and start blasting. I take aimed shots and down two birds, missing on another. He (his first time firing a shotgun) shoots once and drops 4 ducks and short shucks the shotgun causing a misfeed. Not a one of his 4 ducks were even remotely dead, just wounded enough to not fly. All he did was point the shotgun into the flock and shoot, he won't admit this but it has to be true .

 

[skinewmexico]

Picked out the biggest of 3 Sika skylighted as they ran along a ridge at sunset, approximately 350-400 yards. Dropped like a rock. I was forced to pretend like I do that all the time.

 

[jmr40]

I was about 10 and messing around a farm pond when I hit a dragon fly on the wing with my BB gun. Pure luck.

 

[FLORIDA KEVIN]

Maybe not a great shot but one that impressed my buddies ! We were shooting doves ,when a group came in i opened up and got 2 with my winchester auto loader 12 ga . my buddy Tom shot one almost right over our heads he went to pick it up and it took off like it had never been shot ! I nailed him going away !! went over ,picked him up ,Tom said Thanks for finishing him ! I said your welcome and put him in MY bag !

 

[ArmedBear]

Sometimes it's not the best shot that's the most satisfying.

This year's dove opener, a couple of times I timed the doves' trajectory and shot them so that they'd land a couple yards in front of my feet on a dirt farm road. Luck is required; they don't always fly in a path that is conducive to that. And sometimes they keep going a bit longer and drop where it's much harder to get to them. But it's really satisfying when you can drop them in front of you, especially when there's just a narrow strip of open ground between really heavy brush and a canal, like where we hunted this year.

Now the first dove of the day, I shot and it arced nicely into the middle of the canal and floated away. That was singularly unimpressive.