MattTheHat
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After reading another post, I started to think about the best shot I ever made.
It was almost 30 years ago, with a bone stock (and probably never cleaned) Ruger 10/22. My buddy and I were both 18, plinking up at the farm. Glass bottles always seemed to make the best targets, and we had just come up on an old tequila bottle approximately 15 yards away. It was standing up on end and the cap was still screwed on.
I said "Watch this, I'll spin the top right off it." I squatted down to one knee, took very careful aim at the far right upper edge of the cap for about five seconds, and took my shot. The cap disappeared. We both laughed and walked forward to look at the bottle, both assuming I'd shot the top of the bottle off. To our amazement, however, when we picked up the bottle, it was absolutely undamaged. Nary a nick! We stood there speechless, just looking at each other for several seconds, neither quite knowing what to say.
If I were guessing, the cap was probably brittle, and instead of spinning it off like I called, it probably just disintegrated. On the other hand, we could not find a single fragment of the cap anywhere. Either way, shooting the cap off without damaging the bottle was a heck of a shot. Even if it was at fairly close range with a .22 rifle.
If it were to happen tomorrow, that tequila bottle would be enshrined in some kind of display case in my office. At the time, there was no point in wasting a perfectly good bottle, so I threw it in the creek bed and said "your shot."
I'm sure many of you folks have scored an even better lucky shot, so here's your chance to brag. Tell us about your best intentional lucky shot.
-Matt
It was almost 30 years ago, with a bone stock (and probably never cleaned) Ruger 10/22. My buddy and I were both 18, plinking up at the farm. Glass bottles always seemed to make the best targets, and we had just come up on an old tequila bottle approximately 15 yards away. It was standing up on end and the cap was still screwed on.
I said "Watch this, I'll spin the top right off it." I squatted down to one knee, took very careful aim at the far right upper edge of the cap for about five seconds, and took my shot. The cap disappeared. We both laughed and walked forward to look at the bottle, both assuming I'd shot the top of the bottle off. To our amazement, however, when we picked up the bottle, it was absolutely undamaged. Nary a nick! We stood there speechless, just looking at each other for several seconds, neither quite knowing what to say.
If I were guessing, the cap was probably brittle, and instead of spinning it off like I called, it probably just disintegrated. On the other hand, we could not find a single fragment of the cap anywhere. Either way, shooting the cap off without damaging the bottle was a heck of a shot. Even if it was at fairly close range with a .22 rifle.
If it were to happen tomorrow, that tequila bottle would be enshrined in some kind of display case in my office. At the time, there was no point in wasting a perfectly good bottle, so I threw it in the creek bed and said "your shot."
I'm sure many of you folks have scored an even better lucky shot, so here's your chance to brag. Tell us about your best intentional lucky shot.
-Matt