What was your best shot?

[anchored]

Mine was seveal years ago when I was but a teen - I was running down a hill and a groundhog was running out of the field towards the woods about 70 yards away. For some reason, I decided I had to get the shot off before he got to the edge of the field, but I didn't think to stop running and the groundhog didn't wait. Had an iron-sighted Marlin 336 in .30-30, and everything just seemed to fall into place instinctively, made the shot (I don't know how). I'm really glad I had some friends there to witness it.

 

[YodaVader]

Was at a friend's metallic silhouette range one day and took a break firing my TC Contender and broke out a Walther PPK/S in .380 auto for a little "plinking". To my amazement I actually was able to score some hits on the 50 meter pigs. So , with one shot left I decided to try a shot on the 75 meter turkey - I fired the shot and hear the metal ping as the turkey falls! This had to be one of those instances where planetary alingments (luck) came into play! Considering the type of pistol used I would have to rate it as my best handgun shot ever.

 

[Art Eatman]

Wuz out on the deer lease, and had just climbed over a fence. Just as I picked up my rifle, I happened to look off to the side and saw three turkey gobblers about 125 yards away.

No way I could take a head shot, offhand. And a body hit with an '06 is sorta ruinacious. So, I just snapshot the rear end out of the biggest Tom. Killed him and gutted him in one swell foop, and didn't ruin any meat.

, Art

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Coyote at 450 yards with my 25-06 and 3-9 scope last October. I'm normally not a great rifle shot, especially with a 1903 trigger.

 

[Smoke]

Iron sight Win 94 30-30.

Coyote crossed in front of the pickup. I slammed on the breaks. Pulled the gun fromthe rack.

Coyote is jumping broomweeds running straight away from me. I timed his jumps and shot him in the back of the head at the peak of his jump. Approximately 85-95 yards.

Don't ask me to repeat it.

 

[Jack19]

Best shot involved an Uzi, a gasoline can, and a moving vehicle.

 

[45R]

It was a 1000 yard bulls eye shot with my Glock chambered in 9mm

 

[Poodleshooter]

300yd hit on a small orange gourd using a friend's Rem700 BDL left hand in 22-250.
Art-I've done that shot-gutting trick with my .308 Saves cleaning time. Pretty much limits you to breasting them out though.

 

[Gewehr98]

Golf Ball, 500 meters, field rifle, from the prone:

 

[Betty]

I don't know about my "best shot", but my most "meaningful" was the first time I handled a shotgun. We were clay shooting and my brother handed me his Winchester 20 gauge. "I'm going to laugh my pants off if you hit anyting. You're not going to get any."

So, not only was I going to shoot a shotgun for the first time, I had to nail a moving target zipping through the air.

Little sister pulverized the very first clay into a cloud of dust.

to my brother.

 

[kalibear45]

I took a bird from 50yds once with a Mini-14

Casualities of war...

 

[sasnofear]

mines gotta 2 be 50yrds headshot on a rook (1" target) sitting, it was real high wind but due to rain in wind i saw the wind curling round , so i decided not to aim 2" off but dead on and my guess was write when i heard the pellet smash into his head and saw him crumple in my scope!

really cool

 

[David Scott]

One night when we lived in Texas, we heard our trash cans rattling and knew it was the feral dog that had been dumpster dining in the area. I grabbed my Ruger 10/22 and a flashlight. As soon as I came out the back door a huge Black Labrador pulled his nose out of the trash can and took off. Without even bothering with the light, I swung up the 10/22 and snapped off 2 shots. (We lived in the country and there was nothing else out there for miles.) It was about a 25 yard shot, not a long distance but it was a black, moving target with only the light from the windows.

When we went to investigate we found the Lab, deader than disco with one bullet hole in the spinal cord at the base of his neck and one just behind his ribs. The world was once again safe for garbage.

 

[HankL]

Back in my doodlebugging days I carried a Ruger Single Six when afield. I was helping the jug hustlers, who were rightly cautious of snakes, lay a line across a lake dam when a snake was spotted swimming near 50 yds away. I made a point of not showning my shooting skills to those guys again.

 

[Standing Wolf]

I once shot a 100, ten-X—in the warm up before a match.

 

[AnklePocket]

Probably 25 years ago I hit a bird in flight with a slingshot. Surprised me more than the bird.

 

[amprecon]

Mine would have to be a large blackbird coming at me full kilter at an angle about 20 feet high, I hit him mid-flight with an open sighted 10/22 when he was about 20 yards out, fell like a rock, just like my jaw did. Don't remember using the sights, just point shot.

 

[Azrael256]

Last saturday, I went clay shooting with some friends. We tossed a couple of clays up on the berm just to get everybody used to aiming a shotgun before we started throwing. Mind you that there were 6 of us, and only 3 had shot before. One of my inexperienced friends fires at a clay on the berm... misfire. He ejects the shell right quick. I grabbed it off the ground, and dropped it into the double barrel I was holding while saying "lemme show ya' something..." I'm going to do my demonstration of why you should wait several seconds before ejecting a misfire. I only half expected the round to fire, and I was unfamiliar with the shotgun (I've only used a double barrel once before, and that was a decade ago), so I didn't know if I had the right trigger. Since that gave me about a 25% chance of a discharge, I didn't bother to tuck it in good. I point at the berm, and hit the first trigger my finger touches... Well, it was either a hard primer, or a soft pin strike, 'cause it went BOOM! Shotgun slams into my shoulder, and the shot busts 2 clays in a very dramatic shower of clay bits. Everybody was most impressed, and they got the point about misfires... It's Friday and the bruise is still there. I wonder if that qualifies as my worst shot, too.

Edited to add: If ANY of you EVER tell them about this...

 

[Carlos Cabeza]

Last friday I went to the range and I used a fat guy silhouette target and some red tape to form the "ocular window" on it. I put all eight in the triangle with my Colt .45 GM at 25 yards. I'm sure that is not real difficult by most shooters abilities, but I don't have anything really impressive to give. Maybe my perfect heart shot on a 8pt. buck last fall. Scoped .270 Win at approx. 80 yards through very heavy cover and thick brush. See, not that impressive.......................

 

[Mikul]

Human torso, 550 meters, 30mph cross wind with 40mph gusts.

Hit it on my first (and second shot) with iron sights from an FAL. Everyone was saying that it would be a miracle if I hit anything. It took 10 more tries before I hit it again.

 

[AK103K]

Fourth grade, landed a punch square between the eyes of the playground bully, that was the last thing I remember about the whole incedent.

 

[goon]

M-240B machine gun. It was my turn. I was easily picking off the close targets (inside 300 yds) with single shots, so I started shooting at the farther ones. My Squad leader yelled at me, telling me that I should shoot the close ones first because in combat they would be the most dangerous. I started firing bursts at them, and I just happened to end up with a single round left in the MG at the end of my last burst. I took a breath, held way over top of the 1000M target and squeezed the trigger the next time it popped up. A short pause, then the target fell.
I knew that it was more accident than anything else, but I still brought it up every time I got the chance.

 

[Pheonix]

4am...Shot a deer in half at 1100 meters...105mm smoothbore mounted on an M1 Abrams at Ft Knox. We were looking for a moving target, with the thermal sights it was the hot spot. It was scored as a hit (after the went downrange to see what it was)!

 

[Hypnogator]

Once upon a time, I had some college friends out to our family farm to hunt mushrooms. I carried my WWII 1911A1 in the woods, while one of my friends had a Ruger Blackhawk that he loaded with .38 Spls. During lunch break (a picnic) we began shooting at some bricks from an old fallen-down schoolhouse on our property. The .38 would consistently knock them over, while the .45 would break them in half. Well, as we were getting ready to leave, I picked up a brick, said, "Watch this!" and threw it into the air, drew, broke it in half with the first shot, then broke both pieces before they hit the ground.

Couldn't do it again in a million years!

 

[illuminatus99]

I was shooting with some friends at some one gallon milk jugs at about 100 yards, we all had rifles and most of them were having a hard time hitting them including me. being kinda frustrated I went for the rem 870 and loaded up four slugs, I didn't think I'd hit anything but managed to hit four of those jugs in rapid succession. one of the guys whined at me for cheating with buckshot until I showed him the empty shells, that shut him up pretty good.