Your best "Lucky Shot"

Status
Not open for further replies.
Hmmm... well, I have two. First was as a kid, across the street from our home was this big field with a stump in the middle, that we'd use as a target rest. One day, we're shooting at a cigarette sticking up out of the stump. I've got one round left for my .22, and just sort of point it downrange and squeeze: the smoke disappeared. Dad was fairly impressed...

The other one was at my first SASS event. Five knockdown targets on a single stand for the shotgun. I fumble putting the first shell into the borrowed Winchester '97, get it straightened out, then start shootn'. BANG! 1 BANG! 2 BANG! 3 BANG! 4&5. I look at the guy timing me and he just says: I didn't see nuthin'...

My dad used to work with migrants. One day, in a bunkhouse, some guys was bragging about his cool new knife. Hands it to dad, who turns it over in his hands for a second or two, then does the pivot and throw trick: hits a pack of smokes lying on a shelf on the other side of the bunkhouse dead center in the side. Said he turned to the guy, said "nice knife", and walked out before someone tried to get him to try a repeat...
 
Well - since you asked...

The best lucky shot I ever made was made today. One of the stages in our IPSC shoot had a no shoot silhouette target. About 2" above shoulder level on each shoulder of the target was a golf ball epoxied to a golf tee. The tee was inserted into a crossbeam. Had to engage the golf balls without hitting the no shoot target (Santa). Range was 20 yards. Stage was called Santa's Balls (one each red and green golf ball). I was shooting a CZ-75B SA .40 S&W.

After shooting all the other targets I took on the golf balls. I hit the red one on the left shoulder first attempt. :what: but I missed the green one... :(

Now that - for me - was one lucky shot.
 
I have two as well. The first was when I was working with a custom haying crew. It was two wet to bail and one of my co-workers and I decided to go out and hunt some rabbit. We were walking up a gully and I had my open sighted 10/22 in my right hand over my shoulder with my hand on the wrist of the stock and my finger on the safety button. A jackrabbit broke cover about 50 yards out and started running full speed away from us. I dropped the carbine to my left hand while pushing the safety button. I shot as soon as I shouldered the gun and watched the jack drop shot through the head. My partner was real impressed! Good thing he didn't notice the bullet had hit 10 yards in front of the jack and had skipped into him.

The second was a few years latter while deer hunting. I was hunting alone in fairly open country. I was heading towards a range of hills where I knew there was some good hunting. The land was rolling slightly and as I came over a rise a small herd of deer that had been grazing at the bottom of the rise I was on started running. I raised my 30.06 to get the scope on the herd to see if there were any bucks. I had no intention of shooting as they were 150 yards distant and moving at full speed on a diagonal course up hill. My scope showed nearly a dozen does and bringing up the rear a nice little 4 point buck. I lowered my rifle thinking on how I was going to get another view of these animals when something inside of me just sort of "took over". I lifted the rifle, led the buck a bit forward and high and squeezed the trigger. He dropped like he'd been hit by a truck. It took me almost a half hour to find him in the sagebrush. My shot had hit him in the "Atlas bone" which is the bone that sits at the front end of the spine and supports the skull. That bone had disintegrated from the shot. He was laying on the ground with his head facing backwards laying against his side from the impact. I wish I had witnesses to that one. He was a bit over 200 yards away when I hit him. I don't suggest such shots but in this case it worked out well.
 
Smoke said:
Coyote crosses the road in front of me, right to left. I slide the pickup to a stop while grabbing the WIn 94 thutty-thutty out of the window rack.

Jam it out the window as the dust settles and the coyote is running and jumping over the grass and broomweeds. He was moving straight away from me so I sighted down the line and was timing his jumps. I pulled the trigger at what I thought would be the top of his next jump. Sure enough, I caught him right at the base of the skull and he was DRT.

Smoke
Click to expand...


Is it legal to hunt from a vehicle in Texas? It sure isn't in Florida.
 
My best "lucky" shot was when I made my first 5-shot group in an 1/2 inch groups at 100 yards. :what: Guess that's more than one shot....:D :neener:
 
Only one, only once! Pure luck.

I had just completed a Russian boar hunt. The guide was boasting about my shooting ability because I had to shoot between two oak trees to hit my boar. Also, he was trying to get his friend to buy my used CZ 550 Safari rifle in .300 Win from me.

When he asked if it were an accurate rifle, I said, you see that crow in the field (apprx. 225 yards)? He said, "Right, you hit that crow, I'll buy the rifle here and now!"

I put up the middle safari sight, "set the trigger", lowered the bipod...as I squeezed the trigger, the rifle cracked the air, killed the crow and I--

Sold the rifle...right then and there...cash on the barrel.

Doc2005
 
It was about 20 years ago. It was a 30 yard shot at a cotton tail with an open sighted, six inch barreled, Smith & Wesson .22 lr revolver. I got down on my right knee, resting my left elbow on my left knee, took careful aim, focusing on the front sight, and squeezed. Rabbit was solidly hit, causing it to literally jump straight up into the air, seemed like about a yard or more high, flipped over in mid air and landed on its back, dead as a door nail. Roasted him with rosemary, garlic, lemon juice marinade, with salt and pepper. Only place with much meat was the thighs, but it was tasty and tender, as I recall.
 
When I was 12, with a nearly used-up Red Ryder. Walking back to the house, I turned, lifted the muzzle to a 45-degree angle (to get the maximum 50-foot range out of the gun) and fired.

3 seconds later, I hear a tick-zing-zing-zing... Inspecting the coke can still propped on the woodpile, I find my bb, resting in the rim of the coke can.

I've never played the lottery in my life. Mainly because I figure I used up all my luck that day.
 
at "the pit" in Lapeer, we had mostly run out of fun targets, and my buddy was tossing full pop cans out there to shoot, as they were pretty warm, anyway. anyway, I was trying to hit them with my S&W 642, when he tossed one just as I snapped the cylinder closed. hit that bugger while it was still about 3 feet in the air. Mt. Dew spraying all over.
 
My lucky shots

As a kid with a crossman bb gun, I hit a crow flying at about 50 yards. He did not die of course, but he did drop 5ft in the air while rolling over.

I was being brash one day in the backyard with said bb gun when I decided to shoot at a metal pole. I hit it, no problem. However, I hit it just right and the BB richocheted straight back and hit me in the forehead. the luck here is that it was not my eye:D

First time I ever shot a hunting rifle. Dad gave me that the squeeze, relax, hold your breath briefly speech we've all heard or said. And as an anxious kid, I'm not sure I heard it or not. Well, the target is out 100 yards or so, Dad has the spotting scope on the target and I take the shot. I can't see where I hit and I figured I missed, jerking the trigger or something.... Dad says, your done, Bullseye, give the gun to your brother, it's his turn...wahooo!

One and only time I've fired at a deer hunting with dad in highschool. (hunted with dad one season as a lad, went to college, moved to city for technical job, just now getting back into hunting after all this time.) We see a deer barrelling over the ridge after we heard some 5-10 shots from some hunters on the other side. This deers running down a ravine. Dad stays at the top of the dirt road, his buddy and I sprint 100 yards closer. Dad's buddy takes a shot, misses, tells me to shoot. The deer steps behind a bush and we think all is lost, meanwhile, I'm holding the scope on his position. He steps out, dads buddy says shoot, I shoot and make a perfect shot, right behind the shoulders through the heart. The deer drops out of sight, figured I missed. The deer then falls off a 10 foot waterfall, dead as a doornail. The hunting pair that originally flushed and shot at the deer beat me to it. I arrive and they say, thanks for knocking down my deer, I did not get to bag it. It was a big forked horn. No one at school ever beleived that story and it's true.
 
my lucky shot is as follows

I walk up to the approach, slip and fall, and I still get a strike!

it was a lucky shot at bowling. I hope it still counts
 
Kennedy Shoot!

I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but a friend and I were at the range one day shooting rifles (my rifles using my ammo...thanks buddy!). Anyway, we were at the 200 meter line (which is actually 187 meters by my yardage pro) shooting paper, but had also set up gallon milk jugs for the "finale".

As I prepared to shot my final three rounds from a Tikka 7mm-08, he said ..."bet you can't hit all three bang, bang, bang"...

Well I slapped a round home, took aim on the first jug and rapidly fired three shots, one at each jug.

"Well, Lee Harvey, great shooting" he said...
 
My 16 year old daughter

First time shooting a real gun, she had shot bb guns, she picks up my .357 and BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM and BLAM hits 5 bullseyes at about 25 feet.

She has not been able to duplicate that feat.
 
I have a friend who hit a gator with an ak at 250yds plus.

The thing jumped up from the water thrashed around for a few seconds and then sank.

I'm not sure who jumped higher, gator or guy.
 
200 yd rapid fire stage of a HP competition. 2nd time shooting a Garand. Got a little too excited getting back on target after the reload. Round hit the ground about 30' short of the target and bounced right through the x-ring sideways. Was pretty POed thinking I'd blown a decent score...until I saw the target. :what: Tried to do the honest thing and have it counted as a miss, but the guys scoring said they had to count all the holes. :rolleyes:
 
Both of these were when I was a kid with my BB gun:
Showing off my skills to my dad, I took a shot at a piece of grass (maybe a weed) that he'd missed while mowing the lawn. It was one of those that grow really tall and fork at the top, don't remember what that is. Range was probably 20 yards. Thought I'd missed for a minute and then it fell over. Was absolutely stunned, but I played it cool. My dad was impressed. :)
The other time noone saw because they were inside. Was plinking around at my grandmothers house in Florida. Took a potshot at a squirrel running around way up in a tree that was about 50 yards away just expecting to startle it. Next thing I knew, it fell out of the tree (this was a big tree and it was way up there.) I walked over to the body and I'd made a head shot. :what: I think I only stunned it with the BB and the fall killed it because there was no penetration, just blood on the side of the head.

I'd completely forgotten about both of those until I started reading these posts.
 
Offhand, 97yards (laser-range finder), open sighted 10/22. One shot, right through the brain-housing-group of a Jackrabbit that was kindly sitting broadside waiting for me to whack him.
 
jtward01 said:
I'm sorry, but this doesn't impress me. A snapshot like this is a very poor idea when hunting. First, he had no time to check the area behind the deer to see where the bullet would go if he missed. That's basic to all shooting. Second, he took a chance of just wounding the animal, dooming it to a lingering and painful death. This is not something ethical hunters do.

I'm sure your friend is a nice guy, he just was a bit unthinking in this case. Maybe you can have a chat with him about it.
Click to expand...
Do you honestly think somebody is going to critique a friend's antics when it happened almost 40 years ago? Waste of time.
 
15 May 1999. 500 meters. One golf ball, painted silver.

Sacramento Valley Shooting Center, Ione, PRK. The whole story was written up in the September 1999 Tactical Shooter magazine.

My 6.5-06 w/ 120gr Nosler Ballistic Tip, from the prone, using the bipod, only one shot allowed at the target:

theball.gif








(two more posts, then I'm a ghost...)
 
I didn't actually make this shot, but I did see it. My grandfather was in his mid 70's, and had a case of the trembles after undergoing numerous back sugerys. He used to hate blackbirds, and if he saw a big pack flying over during migrating season he'd get his shotgun out and just shoot up in the middle of the flock. On this particular day, he shot up into the pack and the only thing he killed....a Red-Tailed Hawk. Those aren't protected are they? :confused: Ssshhhh...don't tell the Dept. of Fish and Wildlife!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

R
  • Locked
The best shot you ever saw?
2 3
Replies
53
Views
2K
arinvolvo
A
M
  • Locked
Your Best Shot Ever
2
Replies
42
Views
1K
Redneck with a 40
R
R
  • Locked
shot size v. penetration
Replies
2
Views
545
LaEscopeta
L
J
  • Locked
What was best/luckiest shot you ever made?
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Replies
187
Views
10K
boredelmo
B
E
  • Locked
Most awe inspiring shot by someone you care about?
2 3
Replies
53
Views
2K
Rusty Shackleford
R
Back
Top