Whats your longest shot made with a Pistol
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Certaindeaf
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Not real long but my most memorable was a prairie dog at about 20 yards. One shot, double action from the hip and could only see the tall grass moving.. it was on a dead run. Oh, a Harrington and Richardson 999 topbreak .22.
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200 yards with my stock SA XD-40.
Risky buisness
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100 yds (+-) 1911 Colt Govt at coffee can, 75 (+-) prariedog Sw 6" 25-5
In the Handgun Metallic Silhouette game, we normally shoot at 50, 100, 150 and 200 meters. I've shot in many matches where several people shot perfect scores and the "shootoff" target was a row of 50 meter steel chickens at 200 meters. If you coundn't shoot 6" groups at 200 meters with open sights, you were out of luck.
I've had several handguns that would group into 4" at 200 meters all day.
I've had several handguns that would group into 4" at 200 meters all day.
SharpsDressedMan
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Groundhog @159 yards. Seated, two hands between the knees, behind my shed. I had the opportunity to take some sighter shots at the beast on several occasions, and adjusted my scope. I was using a finely tuned 1911 with a 9mm upper unit, Kart barrel, fitted by Scott Mulkerin of SDM Fabricating. The distance had been lasered and verified, and this day the critter came out, and one shot dropped him in the hole. I could hear it smack differently, and knew that I had hit him. The pistol had a Clark scope mount, and Leupold 2x EER scope. The hog was found just down in the hole afterwards. Bullet was a Remington Golden Sabre @ 1100fps.
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Certaindeaf
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I killed a red fox offhand at about 250 yards with a 4" GP.. pretty warm 125gr hollowpoints.. handloads. It took to #4 to get the range right. Hey, I was kinda young.
tnxdshooter
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25 yard head shot one handed on a b27 target. If it had been a person it would have put their right eye out and exited the back of the head. I did it on the first try to and it wasn't luck because I have done it a few more times since. It was with my Springfield xd 40 4".
critter
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Whitetail doe. TC Contender super 14" 30-30 Win with 4X scope. 175 yds--DRT!
Whitetail-6 point. Ruger Blackhawk hunter w/ 4X scope. 240 Rem JHP over plenty of H110. 65 yds. One shot-one kill.
Whitetail doe. S&W M25 in .45 Colt. 50 yds. IRON SIGHTS. One shot-one kill. Using 255 gr hard cast SWC's at about 850fps.
Whitetail-6 point. Ruger Blackhawk hunter w/ 4X scope. 240 Rem JHP over plenty of H110. 65 yds. One shot-one kill.
Whitetail doe. S&W M25 in .45 Colt. 50 yds. IRON SIGHTS. One shot-one kill. Using 255 gr hard cast SWC's at about 850fps.
tnxdshooter
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9mm shoot 90 yards? I was not aware of that. I have always read they had an effective range at best of 50 yards and that even that is pushing it for 9mm. That is why I love these boards. I learn something new every day.
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beatledog7
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Does finally hitting the target on the 6-7th try count? How about the 40th try, or the 100th?
Most shooters, given a reactive backdrop and enough ammo, can eventually hit a target 300 yards away with a snub-nosed .38SPL, but I don't think that's what the OP is asking.
Most shooters, given a reactive backdrop and enough ammo, can eventually hit a target 300 yards away with a snub-nosed .38SPL, but I don't think that's what the OP is asking.
Certaindeaf
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^
Very valid point.
Very valid point.
SharpsDressedMan
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I got another groundhog at 89 paces, open sights, with the same 9mm 1911, but with open sights, one shot, head shot. And I had a witness. Does that count? 
R.W.Dale
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I shot a cast iron griddle we'd hung up at 300m with a 30 carbine blackhawk.
It was a first shot luck out but I put the gun up after that and played it off as skill.
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It was a first shot luck out but I put the gun up after that and played it off as skill.
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Certaindeaf
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No. You are a tremendous failure. Not.I got another groundhog at 89 paces, open sights, with the same 9mm 1911, but with open sights, one shot, head shot. And I had a witness. Does that count?
Hangingrock
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I hit a hill side at 1253.7yds with a 1911A1. It was a big hill side.
BemidjiDweller
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I got within 6 inches of a clay @ roughly 200 meters with my Polish Radom P-64. Took about a box of ammo to do that once, I count it as luck rather than skill though.
wildehond
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A 115gr standard load travels quite flat actually and the CZ75 a 'soft' shooting 9mm as well. I just aimed for the top of the gong. I am sure if I dead rested it, it would have been fairly easy to do 5/5.
I do not know how much energy is still left in the bullet at that range, but the sound of the gong was quite load enough.
tnxdshooter
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Then that means my 40 cal should be able to shoot at least that far.
Certaindeaf
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Loud up, man!
I practice offhand with service-grade handguns at 20 yards, and keep it on 8-1/2 x 11" paper targets fairly routinely, bullseye every 20 shots or so. I have one S&W 617-1 that I punch paper offhand with at 100' though, because I do as well with it at 100' as I do with the rest of my handguns at 60'. I'm obviously not a competition-grade shooter, but I'm better than I ever thought I'd be, and still actually getting better. At 53, that makes me happy.
LiveLife
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One of the ranges I go to has round disk/metal targets set up at 100, 150, 200, 300 all the way out to 1000 yards.tnxdshooter said:
With Glock 17/22/27, M&P40/45, 1911s, etc. I can consistently get MOG (Minute-of-Gong/man sized target) at 100/150 yards aiming about 6-10 inches above the top of the target (compensating for bullet drop). At 200/300 yards, I get at best about 50% hit rate depending on the wind, gravity and rotation of the earth
.As to effective range, I was told in the Army that pistol rounds beyond 50 meters (about 54 yards) lose so much velocity/energy that effectiveness decreases significantly (probably just piss off the targets if you managed to hit them
) and should be engaged with rifle.Hickok45 doing 230 yard off hand shooting with Glock 27 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmMEg4y54Dk
Sapper771
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I hit a steel silhouette at 250 yards with my Glock 17 on the first shot. But then I missed with the other 16. Even the blind squirrel gets a nut from time to time.
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