500 yard shot with .22lr pistol

Go checkout "22plinkster" on Facebook to see for yourselves that this guy is the real deal and does a ton of shooting. With over 150 videos and 100,000 subscribers following him, I think it's safe to say he can shoot.


Here's a vid showing some of his shots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYyT-AaGCY

I dunno about you guys, but if he can hit an aspirin hanging from dental floss or off a light bulb, split a playing card while spinning a basketball on the other hand, bounce a golf ball and shoot it out of the air, shoot an aspirin while holding the gun upside down, shoot a clay pigeon out of the air, shoot through a .223 brass end to end, or throw an aspirin in the air and shoot it, I'd think it's safe to say that he can hit a 2ft square target at 500 yards. ;)


He has another video showing him using a rifle for the same shot. I guess at 600 yards he couldn't hit the target consistently, but at 500 yards he was hitting it every time.
 
canadian hunter312 said:
Go checkout "22plinkster" on Facebook to see for yourselves that this guy is the real deal and does a ton of shooting. With over 150 videos and 100,000 subscribers following him, I think it's safe to say he can shoot.


Here's a vid showing some of his shots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYyT-AaGCY

I dunno about you guys, but if he can hit an aspirin hanging from dental floss or off a light bulb, split a playing card while spinning a basketball on the other hand, bounce a golf ball and shoot it out of the air, shoot an aspirin while holding the gun upside down, shoot a clay pigeon out of the air, shoot through a .223 brass end to end, or throw an aspirin in the air and shoot it, I'd think it's safe to say that he can hit a 2ft square target at 500 yards. ;)


He has another video showing him using a rifle for the same shot. I guess at 600 yards he couldn't hit the target consistently, but at 500 yards he was hitting it every time.
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With the right edit, anyone can be a professional shooter.. I've seen this guys videos too, and it looks fake, I bet if I looked hard enough, I could find the splicing on the video.
 
Guys,

1. We have no idea how many practice shots he had prior to "the video". If he wasted a brick of 22 getting zeroed in before hand, then this one shot isn't really that incredible.
2. We have no idea how many "takes" it took to get that one shot on video. He may have been zeroed in, but for all we know he shot that video 50 times before he actually got a hit, making this one shot not really that big of a deal.
3. The water in the foreground makes walking the shot into the target much easier. The trees in the background make finding a consistant aim-point easy (just aim at that crooked branch). This all helps with finding your zero.

Granted, this could be fake, but since given a little time and effort it could easily be real, why fake it?

PS: I used to shoot clay pigeons at 200 yards with my old Cooey, and I was getting a 50% hit rate on those, so I don't disbelieve that someone could hit a 24" x 24" gong at 500 yards, given enough time.
 
Moose308 said:
Guys,

1. We have no idea how many practice shots he had prior to "the video". If he wasted a brick of 22 getting zeroed in before hand, then this one shot isn't really that incredible.
2. We have no idea how many "takes" it took to get that one shot on video. He may have been zeroed in, but for all we know he shot that video 50 times before he actually got a hit, making this one shot not really that big of a deal.
3. The water in the foreground makes walking the shot into the target much easier. The trees in the background make finding a consistant aim-point easy (just aim at that crooked branch). This all helps with finding your zero.

Granted, this could be fake, but since given a little time and effort it could easily be real, why fake it?

PS: I used to shoot clay pigeons at 200 yards with my old Cooey, and I was getting a 50% hit rate on those, so I don't disbelieve that someone could hit a 24" x 24" gong at 500 yards, given enough time.
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He claims 6th shot till he hit the gong, and he didn't "zero in" he says in the comments that he was holding over approx. 35 feet.
 
you naysayers have obviously never been around guys that can shoot.

Most amateur golfers would never believe pro's can hit what they hit.

most amateur basketball players would call bs at the consistency with which a pro can shoot, especially in practice with no defence on him.

get the drift? good shooters are incredibly good and consistently make unbelievable shots.

In fact most BR guys are not great shooters, siting on a bench with all the props necessary to steady a rifle is not extremely gifted shooting, and those guys for the most part shoot great.

there are some off hand shooters, with hand eye coordination that darn near defies nature, and when those guys meet up with a pistol they can shoot, they are simply incredible. do a little research and you will find this to be true. They are not common, but they exist.

What the guy did in the video is obviously very doable according to the numbers. Just cause most of us can't do it, doesn't mean its not easy for those who can.
 
dizzy said:
you naysayers have obviously never been around guys that can shoot.

Most amateur golfers would never believe pro's can hit what they hit.

most amateur basketball players would call bs at the consistency with which a pro can shoot, especially in practice with no defence on him.

get the drift? good shooters are incredibly good and consistently make unbelievable shots.

In fact most BR guys are not great shooters, siting on a bench with all the props necessary to steady a rifle is not extremely gifted shooting, and those guys for the most part shoot great.

there are some off hand shooters, with hand eye coordination that darn near defies nature, and when those guys meet up with a pistol they can shoot, they are simply incredible. do a little research and you will find this to be true. They are not common, but they exist.

What the guy did in the video is obviously very doable according to the numbers. Just cause most of us can't do it, doesn't mean its not easy for those who can.
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This.

Also, the Colt Woodsman he used in that video is his "hero gun" - the one he does the majority of his most difficult trick-shots with. It's a combination of him undoubtedly having a certain amount of natural talent (eyesight, hand eye co-ordination, a naturalistic/intuitive ability to calculate bullet drop, many other factors go into that), a very good pistol (give him anyone else's Colt Woodsman, and he probably wouldn't be able to pull it off), and a couple of decades of practice, shooting hundreds of thousands of rounds (he's older than he looks, early 30s if I recall correctly, and started shooting at a really early age). Also, he shoots that exact pistol a tremendous amount, he knows it inside and out, he knows its quircks.

Shooters like him are rare, but they exist.

Me? I could practice that shot for the next 5 years and wouldn't be able to pull it off. Maybe by fluke a couple times in a thousand.

But I don't doubt he pulled that shot off. For one thing, he's really well known in the shooting community in the States, and has a lot of respect. If he faked a shot like that, sooner or later the truth would out, and his reputation would be done for. The "gains" he gets for making it are minimal. No Guinness record, no fame beyond what he already has, no big cash payout. The potential losses from getting outed for faking it? Huge. He'd be ostracized by a large part of the gun community in the U.S., his YouTube channel (that, in aggregate, probably pulls in 6 figures a year) would become a ghost town.

In short, it would be far too risky for him to fake it. The penalties for getting caught would be severe. Too little to gain and too much to lose by cheating.
 
I use to shoot 300yards fairly well with a Cooey model 60. It took me a while to figure out where to aim, but once I did,..it was easy. My hold was probibly 12 feet over. I used a branch on a spruce tree to guide me. You could barley hear the "ting" on the target. I shoot 200 yards with my 357 "avitar pic. " So...this summer, I will take my Buck mark and see what it takes to make this shot at 500. Can you even hear the Hit at that distance ??
 
dizzy said:
you naysayers have obviously never been around guys that can shoot.

Most amateur golfers would never believe pro's can hit what they hit.

most amateur basketball players would call bs at the consistency with which a pro can shoot, especially in practice with no defence on him.

get the drift? good shooters are incredibly good and consistently make unbelievable shots.

In fact most BR guys are not great shooters, siting on a bench with all the props necessary to steady a rifle is not extremely gifted shooting, and those guys for the most part shoot great.

there are some off hand shooters, with hand eye coordination that darn near defies nature, and when those guys meet up with a pistol they can shoot, they are simply incredible. do a little research and you will find this to be true. They are not common, but they exist.

What the guy did in the video is obviously very doable according to the numbers. Just cause most of us can't do it, doesn't mean its not easy for those who can.
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Very well said.

It is very closed minded to judge others' capabilities based upon your own.
 
rgv said:
Very well said.

It is very closed minded to judge others capabilities based upon your own.
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When I called BS, it wasn't based on the guy's abilities. I know there are some fantastic shooters out there. It was based on the technical aspects of making the shot. I am still unconvinced, and still believe it was either a fluke or BS. I'd love to meet the person who could consistently make that shot with a centerfire rifle and a scope, let alone open sights, a handgun, and a .22. I would have considered myself a pretty good shot in my younger days, very, very consistently taking grouse with head shots out to 30-40 yards using my .22 or my .45 Kentucky rifle. I could group around 4" at 100 yds. with my Kentucky and maxi's, offhand. I took more than my share of grouse and rabbits with a Ruger Blackhawk in 357, shooting 38 WC's, all head shots. But there is no way in hell I could ever make a shot even close to that. I would love to be proven wrong, though.
 
sunray said:
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Papaclaude said:
When I called BS, it wasn't based on the guy's abilities. I know there are some fantastic shooters out there. It was based on the technical aspects of making the shot. I am still unconvinced, and still believe it was either a fluke or BS. I'd love to meet the person who could consistently make that shot with a centerfire rifle and a scope, let alone open sights, a handgun, and a .22.
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A B class silhouette shooter would hammer that gong with a centerfire rifle until you got bored watching, and a mid grade UIT shooter and his equipment will make the silhouette shooters abilities look like Boy Scout pellet gun training.

Like dizzy said, there's a whole nother world out there. Google some info on handgun silhouette shooting, and look at the scores being put down by Olympic small bore pistol shooters and the size of their target rings.
 
It is possible, but I still say I would love to meet some of those people. Don't forget, this guy did it with what appears to be a stock Woodsman, using off-the-shelf 22 ammo. And I'm pretty sure that even if we factor in those people that could do it, it would still be below the one in a million shooters I referred to in my first reply. Do I think it was possible that he made this shot? yes, it is possible. Do I believe he could do it with anything approaching consistency? Nope. But, that's me. Doesn't mean I'm right.
 
Papaclaude said:
When I called BS, it wasn't based on the guy's abilities. I know there are some fantastic shooters out there. It was based on the technical aspects of making the shot. I am still unconvinced, and still believe it was either a fluke or BS. I'd love to meet the person who could consistently make that shot with a centerfire rifle and a scope, let alone open sights, a handgun, and a .22. I would have considered myself a pretty good shot in my younger days, very, very consistently taking grouse with head shots out to 30-40 yards using my .22 or my .45 Kentucky rifle. I could group around 4" at 100 yds. with my Kentucky and maxi's, offhand. I took more than my share of grouse and rabbits with a Ruger Blackhawk in 357, shooting 38 WC's, all head shots. But there is no way in hell I could ever make a shot even close to that. I would love to be proven wrong, though.
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Glad to help, you're welcome :cool: While it's a centerfire handgun, the principles are the same..
 
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