Your No. 1 Long Range Hunting Shot

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As I chase accuracy and reload to hunt I have a couple memorable shots on game. Calibre, brass, primer, powder, bullet, yardage, game or varmint and optic. For me -

22-250 / Win / Rem 9 1/2 / RL-15 / 50 gr Sierra Blitzking / 450 yds / Woodchuck / Burris Fullfield II 4.5×14×42

This was a dial-up shot vs holdover and a wee target at 450 yds. This was my best long range shot to date.
 
Not sure which way a thread like this might go?? And, with great respect, I do not mean to take anything away from the OP's accomplishment. However, when asked about "longest shot on game":

In the early 1970's, a friend of mine was pushing bush with a few others - his father was posting, with an aperture sighted 303 British - 10 shot magazine and one more in the chamber. The jumpers broke the bush as planned and jumped the barb wire fence he was posting at - the deer ran across the 80 acre pasture directly away from him and jumped the barb wire at the far side - 440 yards. The guy was firing steadily as the deer ran. On his 11th shot he hit a buck in the back of its head and the deer fell onto and tangled up on the barb wire at the far end. Try and tell that guy that he can not hit a running whitetail in the head at 440 yards with aperture sights!
 
Moose walking across the cut at 425 yards. I fired 4 shots with my 358Win. My buddy fired 4 shots from his 308 Win 88, open sights. Two shots through the lungs.

Moose looked like a dog with antlers, it was so far away.

Everyone assumed it was me who got the hits. Once I found out the actual distance and considered my hold-over, I had my doubts. One of the 308 bullets was recovered. 180gr soft point was so pristine it could have been re-loaded.
 
In my 20’s. 5 x 6 mule deer - late season – big and fat. 150 yards. 70-year-old Karl G Mauser 6.5x55 SE stock 140 gr Federal power-shok. Bushnell Banner 4x32 (All I could afford at the time). Jumped up and on a dead run. Buddy spotting for me. First shot behind. Second shot in front. Third shot in base of skull. Not my proudest moment – in hind sight I should have passed – but was young and foolish and did the happy dance anyway. PS: I still have the 6.5x55 – saving it for my grand son.
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In my 30’s. Coyote. Mom & Dads ½ section. Itching to try out a brand new Ruger M77 MkII 7 MM Rem Mag SS synthetic stock. Store bought 140 gr NP w/ Leopold 3x9x40 VXIII. Belly crawled for 20 minutes to get in place. One shot. 415 paces. Heart shot. Exit would the size of a bread plate.
 
I shot a mule deer buck at 640 yds with my 7mm mag. I had time to range the shot and aim carefully. I thought I was pretty hot stuff until I watched my cousins husband shoot a doe at 906 yds with his 338-378. I called it fluke but when we shot later that day at targets he grouped three shots into 8.5"s at 900.
 
billdick said:
I shot a mule deer buck at 640 yds with my 7mm mag. I had time to range the shot and aim carefully. I thought I was pretty hot stuff until I watched my cousins husband shoot a doe at 906 yds with his 338-378. I called it fluke but when we shot later that day at targets he grouped three shots into 8.5"s at 900.
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That's a shooter! This year, I have a property that could yield a 500 yd shot for whitetail. I have considerable work into my reloads and have practiced all summer to 500yds. I'm just over 1/2 MOA so feel comfortable should I need to take it.
 
My best one was a whitetail buck at 425 yards,7MM RM and a Burris Eliminator 2,had lots of practice that year out to 600 yards.I really liked that Burris for hunting but it wasn't a great target scope so I sold it and bought a Sightron 111.Pretty comfortable with it out to 1200 but not at big game.Think I would be comfortable shooting a deer at 600 maybe a little more if the conditions were right.
 
I've had a couple longer shots on deer with rifles, but my best was a mulie buck I shot with a muzzleloader close to twenty years ago.

It was along a river with "badland" type country along the river bank. Very windy, probably 60-90km winds in the breaks in the land. I came up over the top of a hill and a beautiful big buck was standing along the top of the next ridge. Now, I wasn't hunting with a "magnum" muzzleloader, just a standard model 700 inline. I knelt down and asked my pops quietly, "what do you figure, that's gotta be touching 200, no?" He figured 190 minimum. The weather was going to cow patties, so I took aim and let it fly as there was no way to stalk up closer. I held approximately at the top of his antlers height wise, and about 2 feet in front of his nose as he was standing almost broadside and walking into the wind. I hit a little further back than I would have liked, and the buck decided to rear up on his hind legs, tip over backwards and fall a good 150ft to the bottom of a crevice, which made the drag back to the truck about 4.5x harder than if he had tipped forward and just stayed where I shot him, at the top of the hill. All in all, awesome hunt!
 
The longest to date was a red fox at about 780yds with my 6mm Cooper varmint laminate shooting a 69gr Berger pushed by a max load of Superformance. Shot a red fox in the forehead years ago with my Browning B-78 22-250 while it was sleeping on top of a wheat swath. Paced it off at 420yds when I walked out to retrieve it.
I have shot multiple coyotes between 450-500yds with my 204s. Either my Cooper Model 51 shooting 40gr Bergers or my Sako varmint laminate shooting 35gr Bergers.
When it comes to shooting big game animals I won't take a shot over 300yds because I don't shoot my big rifles enough to feel comfortable shooting past that distance.
 
I don't shoot at unwounded big game if it is over 300 yards away. So i suppose I don't have any "long shots" to brag about. However, I have encountered many game animals at long range and stalked closer.
 
Shooting prairie dogs in Colorado this past June...
Longest kill shot 440yrds.
.243 Rem700.
75gr. Hornady V-Max bullet over I can't remember which powder or how much..
 
jethunter said:
Normally I just stalk close enough to kill the animal with my knife. Takes a bit longer but saves ammo.
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Ya, you like me. I usually get really close...whisper in their ear...put them in a bit of a trance...and then they just follow me back to the truck and fall dead on the ground. Saves hauling out the meat and I really don't like killing so I feel better about the experience. Once they are dead, my cousin cuts them up...I don't really like the sight of blood either. Oh...sorry..."long range shots" not "long range stalks"...off topic. My bad...
 
Must be a couple years since the last "long range hunting" thread. I wonder if this one will eventually go south like the previous ones did? :)
 
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260 yards. Winchester 30-30 carbine with Williams FP receiver peep and front Fire Site bead.
High sight in at 100 yards.
Standing still shot with him 3/4s onto me. Nine seconds of stillness and needing only one Winchester Silvertip. DRT.
Wow, the chest vitals damage was something else folks.

My eye sight was 11 years younger then.
 
jethunter said:
Normally I just stalk close enough to kill the animal with my knife. Takes a bit longer but saves ammo.
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NVShooter said:
Ya, you like me. I usually get really close...whisper in their ear...put them in a bit of a trance...and then they just follow me back to the truck and fall dead on the ground. Saves hauling out the meat and I really don't like killing so I feel better about the experience. Once they are dead, my cousin cuts them up...I don't really like the sight of blood either. Oh...sorry..."long range shots" not "long range stalks"...off topic. My bad...
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Anything under 300 yards falls prey to my jedi mind powers. I just make their heads explode. Why didn't I think to get them to walk out to the truck, and THEN explode their heads? What a fool I am!!
 
Longest shot 568 yds. White tail buck. K-98 chambered in 30-06. 165 gn Nosler Ballitsic Tip, can't remember the charge (I'm still at work). One shot, double-lung pass-through, bullet lodged on the skin far side. He just kept feeding until he fell down. I was so far away, he didn't think he was in danger. That was my one and only shot at game that far away. Very young, perfect eyesight, shot all the time just for that one chance. Now, I keep them under 400 yds, however my longest shot in the past few years has been a HUGE whitetail at 364yds, ranged before the shot. That was a fiasco, though when the bullet failed to expand and I tracked that poor animal for 4 hours, busting him up out of a bed every 20 minutes.
 
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