What's the best shot you ever made?

[herkyguy]

playing with my GP100 at 50 yards at a shooting club. from a bench, but not in a rest, i shot the first round a tad high of bullseye. second shot was an inch or so right of the first shot. at that point, the range safety officer, who'd been watching the line with binoculars, came over and stood behind me without saying a word. my third shot went about 12 inches right and low.

he walked away, knowing it had all been a fluke.

then there are the handful of times i've hit a 6" steel plate at 600 yards with my Remington 700 in .308.

then there is the doe i dropped in her tracks last fall with my 30-06. it's always a good shot when you don't have to do any tracking.

last one would have to be out in the sticks with my buddies. i had my 870 with me in one hand when one of them chucked an old dirt-filled beer can up and out in front of us. i swung the shotgun up and caught it just as it started to come back down and sent it flying off into the woods. on that one i was able to keep my poker face and pretend like it was nothing.

 

[xxjumbojimboxx]

First shot bet that I couldn't do it at 50 yds with a PSA M4 1:7 and Vortex pst 1-4x24...wolf wpa 62. hp...ammo

hey hey eagle peak!

 

[xxjumbojimboxx]

When i was somewhere around 12 I had a paintball gun I'd gotten a few months prior at christmas time. It was an "Eagle Talon" Ill never forget it. It was pump action and single shot. A really horrible paintball gun by toda... er... even the standards then. Either way my cousin and I were walking through the woods and i noticed a chipmunk running quickly up a tree about 20 yrds a way. I didnt even aim. I threw that gun up from my hip pulled the trigger and the chipmunk did ariel cartwheels as it flew out of the three. HILARIOUS. no one could believe i hit it. I couldnt beleive i hit it... Believe it or not i think the paintball gun actually killed it... The fall wasnt from anymore then 20 feet or so, that could have done it too.

 

[taliv]

dunno about the best, but i hit a 4" circle dead in the center at 1008 yards last Friday on the first try. my spotter gave me a fantastic .3 wind call. ping

 

[Akita1]

A running deer with my .243 at about 125 yards. Hit him still and he stood there for three or four seconds looking down at the bullet hole, then thought better and took off but for some reason into the food plot instead of the woods. Hit him 2" from the first shot (I'm sure much luck was involved) but it was a proud day when we hung him up to gut and the holes were so close together.

 

[Akita1]

dunno about the best, but i hit a 4" circle dead in the center at 1008 yards last Friday on the first try. my spotter gave me a fantastic .3 wind call. ping

Was that .308 taliv? Whatever the caliber, I'd call that pretty "best".

 

[allaroundhunter]

Over Christmas break I was shooting game my .308 to get some data at longer ranges when a pack of wild dogs started coming towards me. My dog met them about 30 yards in front of them and started chasing them off, but the alpha of the pack decided to turn and fight when they were a good distance away from me. Before it and my dog had a chance to get into a tussle I took a shot and dropped the feral dog in his tracks. Measured distance? 563 yards. Not bad for having to make a windage call, determine my hold, and take a shot under 6 seconds.

 

[ol' scratch]

Gun? SP10 Remington. Shot? One hundred yards on a red head hen in flight and I splashed her. I love my 10 gauge. There have been other really good shots, but this is the one I am most proud of. It is the shot that impressed my dad. Another good day. I took my match rifle out (AR 15 I built, NM with irons) and tested some loads. A guy in the next lane over looked over at me and said, "Dude, are you looking at what you are doing down range?" Embarrassed, I asked if I was hitting his target (windage concern). He said, "No man. I have been watching through the scope and you are lining them up on top of each other!"

 

[allaroundhunter]

Was that .308 taliv? Whatever the caliber, I'd call that pretty "best".

I would expect that he was shooting a 6 or 6.5mm round rather than a .308 Win, but I could be wrong.

 

[Sniper66]

Best rifle shot: a prairie dog at 336 yards (verified with a range finder) with my Remington 700 .223 on a breezy day; aimed a foot high and a foot left.
Best shotgun: prairie chickens are hard to find and hard to hit. A group came from behind me and swooped down in front of me. As they were going away, I got 2 in one shot, which is also the daily bag limit.

 

[Armored farmer]

One of my favorite shots of all time....
My friend and his sister's boyfriend, and I was doing some fishing. A small songbird landed on a thistle about 20yds away. I took careful aim with my Single-Six but just as I was ready to fire, the bird flittered to another thistle. Again, I took careful aim, and the bird fluttered again.....this time I just flipped the gunbarrel in the direction the bird went and fired. It was a lucky shot, but I killed that bird on the wing with my .22 revolver. My friend and his sisters boyfriend witnessed it.
The guy married my friend's sister, and later became our county sheriff. He has served our county as sheriff for 20yrs. To this day, he still believes I am an awesome handgun shooter. lol


I am pretty proud of the 100x100 that I broke at "The Grand" during the Champion of Champions event.

 

[fallout mike]

Deer hunting with a uncle several years ago, we were about to walk out of the woods. We could hear and barely see a deer running full speed through fairly thick woods. It had to jump a fence and I had about a 2 foot window where the fence was about 100 yards away. I aimed there looking through the scope waiting on the deer. I hit it in midair jumping over it with my Browning A-bolt .270. It landed head first and rolled head over heels a few times. DRT!! I said "that's how you do it", without cracking a smile. He still talks about that shot.

 

[essayons21]

4" EFP at about 200 yards with a M2 iron sights. Boom

 

[BigDaddyNEB]

Took out an entire 4th I.D. platoon at Ft. Carson in summer 1992 with a M47 Dragon, with MILES gear, the Range S.O. disqualified me for violating the Geneva Convention. The 2 star General at the After Action Review gave me an Atta-boy!

 

[Certaindeaf]

Took out an entire 4th I.D. platoon at Ft. Carson in summer 1992 with a M47 Dragon, with MILES gear, the Range S.O. disqualified me for violating the Geneva Convention. The 2 star General at the After Action Review gave me an Atta-boy!

That's easy to do through chicken-wired glass or cyclone fencing.. with one shot out of an AR.

 

[QUICK_DRAW_McGRAW]

A group of shots actually. Was at a local shooting pit when a guy was trying to ping a steel plate the size of note book paper on the hill side 65yards out. He kept missing so goofing around I launched a 230grain Tula .45acp out if my Taurus 1911 and pinged it hard.

The fellow bet me $20 I couldn't do it again. He handed over the $20 after I put another 7 rounds on it emptying the magazine.

That or shooting golf balls out of the air hand tossing them and hitting the, with my sr22. But I do this a lot.

 

[kendak]

985yrd kill on a PD in north Texas ...700 Rem. I built in 6MM Ackley with a 70gr. BT 6.5X20 Leupold...clear ,light wind, temp. 77...this rifle will shot 10 shot 3 1/2grps. at 1000yrds. all day long IF I do my job..take care

 

[pyro073]

I was up in the hills east of town doing some plinking and shooting clays with a buddy. As I am re-loading my shotgun I see movement on the other side of the little valley we were in. We checked it out thru the binos and it was a coyote. I grab my Mosin M44 (iron sights) out of the truck drop one round in, take aim a little high and a little ahead of it and take the pot shot just for the heck of it. My buddy that was watching it thru the binoculars sees dust kick up behind it right as the 'yote buckles and rolls down the hill.

We later used a range finder to see how far of a shot it was. The reading on it ended up being about 560 yards.

 

[TCB in TN]

Back in my early.20s two of my friends were taking turns trying to center quarters at 100 yards. They were using a scoped marlin 22 mag off bags from a truck hood. Both had hit the edges and bent quarters but after about 10 SHOTS each no holes. I picked up my old rem pump 22 no scope off hand, popped of one quick shot. The quarter went flying. I put down my rifle walked down range picked up my quarter and came back. Dead center shot. Both my buddies said things about me I can't repeat on here, then packed up and quit. Of course I had both the bragging rights and my keep sake.

My oldest son has that quarter, and he spent a whole afternoon when he was 17 till he made one to match.

 

[Collects]

This is a fun thread. Keep 'em coming!

I neck-shot a running grouse, neck bobbing back and forth rapidly, using a compact Glock 9 mm at around 60' range.

I killed a caribou with a 375 yard offhand show using a Ruger 7 mm magnum.

My buddy took out a Beeman scoped pellet gun, put one right through the X on the target in his basement, and handed the pellet gun to me. I put my pellet right through his hole in the X, then declined to take another shot.

I put 6 of 8 rounds into an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper at 53 yards, using an 8-shot S&W Model 327 snubbie .357 magnum revolver once.

I wonder if I could ever repeat those shots.

Famed NYC gunfighter, Jim Cirillo wrote about head-shooting an armed robber who was holding a hostage at gunpoint in front of the robber, with only about 4" of the bad guy visible, the rest being shielded by the human hostage shield. Cirillo head-shot the bad guy, ending the showdown and saving the hostage's life and his own life. He set up shooting courses later on designed to replicate the conditions of that shot, and was never again able to make the same recreated shot.

 

[Isaac's Grandpa]

I took the head off a striped gopher at 60 yards with my .54 muzzleloader. I found everything from the shoulders down, minus the guts.


Pure, blind luck beyond any doubt.

 

[skiking]

My best shot was actually 10 consecutive shots when I was shooting 3 pos smallbore in high school. I shot a 100-10x offhand during a match.

Single best shot was a 300 yd snap shot at a running coyote with my .300 WM. My cousin and I couldn't stop laughing cause we couldn't believe I hit it.

 

[Dframe]

I once shot 5 out of 6, 4 inch steel plates at 50 Yards with my Detective Special, in front of about 5 stunned witnesses. The look on their faces was priceless!
I was in the zone that day, and don't know I could ever do it again, but DAMN that was fun!

 

[Fleetman]

My "best" shot although not planned was when I was shooting skeet (age 14) and was at Station 8, low house.....when I called for the target, got it and apparently the field to the right of ours had just thrown doubles and got both of them too.....the high house target had to be at least 80 yards when hit....probably a VERY lucky pellet or two!

 

[Miss Stana]

We were on our annual Easter Egg hunt. We set the eggs on rocks and hunt them from the other side of the wash. I was trying to shoot the eggs with a S & W .22 pistol and not doing so good. Then a lizard ran across the rocks we had the eggs on. I got him the first shot.