What is your "best ever" shot?

[MHBushmaster]

I hit a robin that was "flittering" around my target stand, and refused to go away. I decided to see if I could hit it as it was just a robin and it was on my target stand. Nothing like using a 91/30 Mosin Nagant with Iron sights at 50 yards popping the head clean off with a 150 grain bullet from the standing position with my left elbow resting on the standing bench.
It was about 30% skill and 70% pure luck that I hit it at all, it was 100% luck that my shot decapitated it.
Again, I was surprised that it worked out like that, needless to say, no other birds we messing with my target

 

[jonsidneyb]

We were out shooting once and one of my friends had a Browning High Power that had lost its rear sight. I had never shot one so I just shot it across the rock quarry we were at. There was a soda bottle setting on top of a rock on the other side and it blew up. I didn't even see the soda bottle way over there.

The people I was with at first thought I did that on purpose and thought I was a master marksman to be able to hit that and on top of that with no rear sight. As the day wore on that found out that I was not quite as good as the first shot of the day at first led them to think.

 

[eliphalet]

As the day wore on

Good one, you should have stopped but I know that easier to say than do.
I was with a guy from Long Island NY, it was his first time out shooting handguns. He was in the Air Force and liveing in the same apt's as me 35 years or so ago. Any way out to the boonies we go, we got out of the car and first thing I draw my Single-Six and shot a beer can at about 50 feet, no sights, freehand. He was in Ah. I had been practicing a lot but it was far enough to be somewhat at least lucky, I should have stopped he would have remained in ah. but I shot again and of course missed, and then agan too. duh lol

Year or two ago I went up to the local range to shoot my 41 Mag. It had been a couple of years since I had shot it ( divorce etc)So now I am this old fart and some young guys were there shooting, doing ok too. I shot 20 rounds or so at the metal plates and was doing ok, and could tell they were a bit surprised how well I was doing, when I spied about half a orange clay pigeon on a post at 100 yards or so away some one had left. I made a comment to the guys kidding but didn't say I was, and took careful aim leaning my arm against a post to steady myself. I shot and the clay pigeon poof, disappeared. I made some comment like Yup it still shoots real good' and we left. It was about pure luck I hit that pigeon but it was too good a situation to not just walk away from... Fun memories.

 

[cooch]

Luckiest shot that I'll lay claim to, involved a cap-and-ball revolver, a fox, and a motorbike being ridden flat-out across a rough paddock.

Seeing that I needed my right hand for the throttle, the shot had to be taken with the weak hand.

If the sky hadn't been clear, I would have put it down to a lightning strike. I had NO right to hit that bushy-tail. Maybe he just died from laughing too hard......

 

[innerpiece]

lotsa neat stories!

some of my better shots (on targets):

Golfball... 175yds... .17HMR Marlin 917
Gallon Jug.. 150+ ft.. KahrCW9 9mm (from a draw)
Gallon Jug.. 175yds.. Yugo SKS (locked bolt)

I shoot alot, so have made some pretty neat shots.. usually not when Im trying..lol

ip.

 

[MarshallDodge]

Rifle: Prarie dog at 350 yards with a 6mm Remington.
Pistol: Prarie dog at about 75 feet with a .357, we were out driving through the field when his little head popped up. I grabbed the 6" King Cobra and held steady a little high. Those 110 grainers really do a number on them.

We were sitting around swapping gun stories recently and one of the guys said that he could shoot pennies out of midair with a .22. I kinda doubted him at first until his buddy confirmed it.
His best story was when he was in a hunting camp and his cousin started bragging about him. None of the guys in camp believed him and the bets started at $5 each. He said to give him three tries and he ended up shooting all three. They were a little upset with him after that.

 

[gdvan01]

Pistol: hitting bowling pins at 100yds with a stock SIG 226 9mm.
Rifle: it started as a 50 yard shot on a quartering away whitetail deer...then he bolted. Nailed his hide with a scoped 30-06 at about the 75 yard mark (while it was running) and he nose dived into the dirt. My buddy talked about that shot for days.

;-)

 

[OH25shooter]

It was only about 50 yards, but the wait and end result was fabulous. In the field I hunt, I spotted a groundhog in a pile of lumber on the edge of this field. They live in the ground under this scrap lumber pile and climb up to the high point, about six feet up. This particular hog had a spot in between the stacked wood where he would lie down low, in excellent cover for a perfect view of the farm field. I was on my way back to the truck when I glassed the scrap pile. All I could see was his nose poking out. I was in a bad position, so I crawled on the ground very slowly, set up my 17HMR rifle down on it's bi-pod and waited. I must have waited 30-45 minutes on my stomach. I kept the scope on his nose, but had to rest for time to time. Suddenly in a split second, with the scope on his nose, he moved forward to expose his eye. BANG! Got 'em. Now that is groundhog hunting.

 

[Dravur]

Now now..

Marshalldodge, You know thiose dogs were no more than 340 yards and the pistol shot.... well, truth be told, that prairie dog had powder burns

 

[AZGunLover]

When I was 14 years old my dad took me deer hunting in Texas, I had a Winchester 30-30 lever action rifle. My dad told me that the 30-30 was a "great brush gun but they are only good to about a hundred yards." On the second or third day of hunting I spotted a nice buck in a clearing, I aimed high on the shoulder and squeezed off a round, it was a perfect shot right through the shoulder. My dad couldn't believe how far it was so he took a steel tape and measured it. It was 222 yards. The best shot Ive ever made and the best shot he'd ever seen!

 

[MarshallDodge]

Now now..

Marshalldodge, You know thiose dogs were no more than 340 yards and the pistol shot.... well, truth be told, that prairie dog had powder burns

Good to hear from you Dravur, I like your signature.
I don't think I will make the Memorial Day shoot this year

 

[Shadow Shock]

Rifle: Killed an 8-point buck from 300yd with my .223. one shot, he dropped in his tracks.

Pistol: Head-shot a squirrel from 35yd with a .22lr revolver. Mostly luck

Shotgun: I was four taking my first gun (New England Arms Pardner series single shot .410) on my first rabbit hunt with it. My dad shot 3 times at a running cottontail with his 12ga, I popped off one shot and dropped him. He had been jumping over a hole on the levi when I sot and had fallen in. took us 10min to find him lol

 

[.45Guy]

Nailed a whistle pig at a bit over 100 yards as he popped his noggin up with a 1910 Carl Gustaf M-96. Those 140 grain softpoints do a number on them.

 

[skud_dusty]

Here's a luck shot for you...

Went to the range with my shootin' buddies, and one of them wanted to shoot my "derringer." It's a $150 (brand new) sxs hand cannon that shoots .45LC and .410. Well he got to liking the .45 and wanted to test accuracy. At 100yds we put up a hubcap. He hit it within 3 shots. Purely luck as far as I can tell, the other shots were about 20 feet off

Not bad for less than an inch of rifling

 

[Dbar111]

2 consecutive shots into lincolns head on a penny at a hundred yards with a 17hmr.

(not really hunting, but hey....)

 

[John Peddie]

Deer, November 1996. Old Savage 99, iron sights, .250-3000.

Hiding behind a birch tree, drooping branches.

Doe enters clearing about 50 yards away, buck about 10-15 yards behind her.

First shot (at doe)-twig explodes.

Move out in front of tree, doe now walking briskly to the right-bang, drops.

Buck goes left at first shot, accelerates quickly after the second.

Bang again-another twig (no time to change position, so I was shooting sideways through branches to my left).

Now he's flat out moving, bounds up high-bang again, on the bound, through the heart at 60 yards. Hit the ground and never moved.

I know to quit when I'm ahead, so from that day on, I've stuck to shotguns and birds.

Nice memory, though.

 

[citizen510]

I took a ground hog at 105 yards with a S&W 39-2 with 147 gr. Luger from an open stance strong hand only. I have six ground hog kills from 95 to 105 yards with the 39-2. I love that gun and really, really hate ground hogs, so it works out pretty good for me.

 

[MCgunner]

McGunner, you can fashion snake traps out of fine chicken wire and/or porch screen material and wire, or you can use crawdad traps. Just bait them and they'll catch snakes; put them under the water and I imagine you'd be able to catch quite a few as well.

Something like: http://www.dunnsfishfarm.com/live_sn...p_303_prd1.htm

Yeah, well, it wasn't my tank. If it had been, I might have preferred to leave the snakes. I quite enjoy a day of shooting 'em off a tank.

I just thought of another shot I made after all these years sticks in my head. It was at about 10 feet and it was done with a shotgun. Now, you're thinkin' I'm an idiot, but this teal was coming straight toward me and just as he got to me he flaired to my right. I was hunting with a 20 gauge 870 Remington, swung the gun as fast as I could and got into what I thought was the general vicinity of the duck and fired. The duck fell dead....headless. The pattern was so tight at that range, it took his head clean off!

 

[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 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 4" clay birds.

Well, I couldn't pass up on this fun, so we had to give it a try. My friend 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, 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.

 

[Kman]

Best shots,,,

Probably the time I was duck hunting in southern Mn. I was about 16 or 17 yrs. old hunting with my father and a few of his friends over a shallow pond. We knew some geese had come in the night before, and we were all pretty stoked about it. Right at legal time someone from across the pond shoots something sitting on the water, well all hell breaks loose and ducks are vacating the place in a great hurry. As luck would have it, five geese circle around and head out my direction, with a plugged pump-gun I made all three shots count. The only time we ever took geese from that place, two had bands from somewhere up north,,,, I miss those hunts like crazy

 

[retrieverman]

I have killed well over a hundred deer and MANY hogs, but I would say my "best" shot was last week when I was headlighting for hogs in one of my pastures. When I hit the hog with my headlight beams, he took off at a full run quartering away toward the nearest wood line, and I aimed at the end of his snout at ear level. BOOM! FLOP! I hit him an inch under and behind his left ear at 150 yards with my Marlin 336SS scoped with a Zeiss Conquest 3-9 using Hornady LeverEvolution ammo, and he was 20 yards away from safety when he fell.

 

[Charles S]

Great shot, very nice rifle with great optics, and a nice hog...Great job!

 

[brando]

My best shot was a 492 yard shot on a ground squirrel with my 223. Then my buddy gets a 521 yard head shot on a ground squirrel five minutes later with his 223AI. I lost bragging rights that day and to hear him tell the story for a week.

 

[elk tracker]

Didn't know Grandma and Grandpa were drinking coffee at the breakfast table looking out the bay window directly above me watching the humming bird at the back of the yard. I timed his stops at the honeysuckles for about a minute and let him have it! Blew his little head off with my pellet gun. Grandma screamed ,chewed out Grandpa and told him to beat me good! I just sat there and waited for the worst. Grandpa came out and asked "did you hear Grandma"? I said yes sir. He said "are you going to shoot anything but black birds like I asked"? No sir I said. Good he replied, don't let that happen again. Walking away he stopped and turned back; looked me in the eye and said "that was an incredible shot". Happened during 7th grade and I'm in my 40's now. I will never forget how cool Grandpa was. I just learned 2 weeks ago he was a glider commando in WW2. North Africa, Italy, France (Remmagan), Battle of the Bulge. 1 Silver Star and 3 Bronze Stars. A wonderful gentleman not given to bragging....... But I will!

 

[Shadow Shock]

Shot a hog at 80yd with my .223, it was easy. But the bullet penetrated through and hit an old sow in the hindquarters, crippling her. The amazing thing is when me and my dad drove up, while the truck was rolling to a stop, he stuck his 1911 out of the window strong hand only and popped off a quick shot. The .45 bullet hit directly in her left eye and blew the back of her skull out.