The best shot you ever made

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What is the best shot you ever made?

Let this one be a good ol' fashion braggin' fest.

No comments on ethics or what's right or wrong or sufficient.

We'll assume that any not so ethical, or sketchy shots were not the norm and are not regularly practiced.

So yes, let's hear about the geese at 70 yards, the running doe who fell at 300 yrds, the windy rainy day when you crossed your fingers and made good...

It's good to be able to criticize and take criticism and judge....

but sometimes, it's ok to take a hunting story at just that, a story that entertains us junkies....
 
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One of my most memorable shots was when I was 16.

I was duck hunting with my 16 gauge.

I was walking along and I am a right handed hunter. two ducks burst up to my right and kept flying right. Now that is a difficult swing for me since I am right handed and they were flying at about 3 0'clock on my right. somehow I managed to swing around, and while losing my balance and twisting my foot I got a shot off. while falling myself, I saw both ducks drop dead in the air. The smile on my face lasted a fraction of a second as I fell flat backwards into about 2 feet of mud and water.

When I got home Dad was impressed to see the birds but told me I shouldn't have swam out to get them :rolleyes::D:D
 
a friend ask me to shight in his new savage 22-250. i get to the shooting pit with him and set a target at about 125M then shoot. my first shot was so perfectly in the center that i said whait a minute let just walk to the target, when we got there the hole was PERFECTLY in the center like someone used a paper punch and carreful mesuring. i said take it down i am not shooting this one anymore just too perfect.
 
best shot eh?...hmmm....I was about 16 years old and duck hunting with my dad.
Using a single shot 20 gauge, I hit a mallard coming towards us.
Its path of descent came in between us, and hit the rear window in his 70 Chev pickup, shattering the glass into the cab.
I will never forget the look on his face....and he did not say a word, just shook his head.
For the rest of the life of that truck, a piece of plywood took the place of the window, and he put a fibreglass cap on the truck a week later.
 
Dad shot a hole in the hood of his truck trying to sight a rifle in. I can't think of any shots that really stand out for me? Shot a buck @ 516 according to the GPS on the run once. The only way we knew it was a hit was that familiar Whoop!!! we heard the split second after the deer crested the hill. My buddy said "I think you hit him"? Much to our surprise he was laying stone dead on the other side of the hill with no bullet hole? On closer inspection we seen a couple of spots of blood on his ear. The bullet went through the skin on the back of his ear right into the ear canal into the brain! when we skinned him out the tip of the bullet was just a little deformed and basically all intact. I would say this was a great shot? No just that the deers # was up. I know I'll never repeat something like that again. Hard to believe! It was for me too! Oh why did I sell that 308?
 
Two come to mind 650 meters on a small doe, yes the season was open, 7mm rem mag. How did I know the distance ? checked with the odometer of the pickup. Oh yes open sights. total fluke. Another when I was about 16 we used to drive around in the winter shooting rabbits. My bud and I shot a few and we chased one into the ditch and I saw it go bhind a snowdrift. Buddy sez it is gone, so I seaid no way pointed the .22 at the drift and let fly. Much to my surprise the bunny jumps up about 5 feet on the air drops dead pick him up right thru the right eye! fluuuuuke
 
Hunting geese last fall, I watched a big V cross over our spread at 65 yards I deliberately line up on the first bird and let go. The second bird in line stiffens up and falls and falls and falls. When i pick the goose up its breast bone is shattered and bits of goose workings are leaking every where.After looking the goose over I find I broke both wings and hit it twice in the neck. I was shooting #4 Hevi shot.
 
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Hmm, well with the old FNC1 i had 10 hits at 500 yeards on a figure 11 target once, using standard sights
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That's really good! I got 6 out 10 from 600 with an FNC1A1, figure 11, had the thin front blade sight. Many hours of practice, a lot of rounds down range back then.

Oh , also a seagull with golf ball, approx 25 feet up, used a standard 5 iron, no modifications :D
 
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There are occasions that stand out. I dumped a fox running flat out, right to left, at 150 yards with the battle sights on my Churchill Arms Lee Enfield #4. I hit a crow in flight again flying right to left with a 10/22, I was on a hill and he was straight out from me so there was no elevation problem to work out. With a borrowed M-70 .375 H&H I dumped my Tanzanian warthog with a single shot. It was running flat out quartering away to the right, I fired left handed from about 150 yards; it was the best quality trophy of the safari. On the range with my .308 target rifle, my best group ever measured .107" at 100 and at long range I have repeatedly shot 4" groups @ 1000, although I will not claim to be able to do this on demand. With my 4" M-19 .357 I was once able to hit 4 thrown quarters consecutively, I missed the 5th, but I have never been able duplicate that performance. If I recall we only recovered one of the coins, but you could hear the hits.

I have also made some spectacular misses, such as the broadside caribou I shot under at 75 yards, expecting the bullet to rise into the heart when I held on the chest line. Instead the bullet when right were I aimed, clipped off some hair, didn't break the skin (at least there was no blood on the snow) and it took off as if stung by a bee. I've never forgiven the .270 for that.
 
.22 LR, 18X scope. 300 yard gopher in 3 shots, witnessed. (Later paced off) :D

My favorite is also the one everyone is going to call BS on. I swear to God, true story. It was an overhead hen Mallard that was somewhere between here and the moon. 1 shot and she came down, hit the ice on a pond that was about an inch thick and splashed through. While we were trying to figure out how to get her out, she came to! She looked drunk and her head was waving side to side. She crawled out of the hole, and waddled onto the ice. I was going to hide in the tree's to the side figuring if my buddy would try and scare her she would run away. As we were about to do it, the damn bird flew away like nothing happened! The best I can figure is she was so high the pellets knocked the wind out of her! I swear we sat there and looked at each other for an eternity trying to figure out what happened. It was either that or there's a zombie duck flying around! :D
 
I shot a huge raven at about 200 yards with a 7mm mag. Two of them were flying across in front of us and as they reached th epoint directly in front of us they turned and flew directly away from us.

Clean rest probably just over 200 yards, 160 gr Barnes blue meanie the raven just about blew up feathers everywhere. I never got to view the carcass as it was over some nasty muskeg.
 
A pop can at 125 yards with open sights, with my wife's Remington 597 in .22lr. I was proud. I hit it twice in a row. Saw it jump both times.

p.s. I hate people who leave garbage in the bush. Especially on the trails I walk. Thanks to all who teach your children properly.
 
Most dramatic: Shooting a bear that was walking on a log between two cliffs about 2 or 3 storys high. Boom, wait.... Bounce.. flop.

SHooting a suspened computer mouse swinging at 25 yrds... Twice in a row offhand with a .22. Didn't try for 3:D

As for misses... Too many to count...:D

Cheers

Seabass
 
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.22 LR, 18X scope. 300 yard gopher in 3 shots, witnessed. (Later paced off) :D

My favorite is also the one everyone is going to call BS on. I swear to God, true story. It was an overhead hen Mallard that was somewhere between here and the moon. 1 shot and she came down, hit the ice on a pond that was about an inch thick and splashed through. While we were trying to figure out how to get her out, she came to! She looked drunk and her head was waving side to side. She crawled out of the hole, and waddled onto the ice. I was going to hide in the tree's to the side figuring if my buddy would try and scare her she would run away. As we were about to do it, the damn bird flew away like nothing happened! The best I can figure is she was so high the pellets knocked the wind out of her! I swear we sat there and looked at each other for an eternity trying to figure out what happened. It was either that or there's a zombie duck flying around! :D
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You can only kill zombie ducks by shooting them in the head.. Duh..:D
 
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