best shot ever made?

350 yd headshot on a buck. He was standing behind a cattail swamp and all I could see was his head. I dialed him in with the scope, and gently squeezed off the shot and he disappeared. the bullet entered the eye and exited the ear. When we got to him his feet were still in his last set of tracks, he just folded straight down.

After that first shot, 12 more deer break cover over the next 3-5 minutes and I manage to down 3 more of them (party hunt) with chest shots at ranges between 150 to 300 yards. One of them was initially wounded with a pass through shot and the 2 of them went down with that one shot. The one behind got back up and I put a finisher through the chest.
 
Look up in the sky.... :eek:

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some of my 30 yd selfbow shots are at the top of my list. Long range rifle shots have been ok, but in your face with seconds to react were the very finest memories afield. Its also hard to put wing shots at the bottom of a list just cause its so much fun.
So my final answer is , Hunting is great.:D
Frank
 
I've made a couple good shots with my pellet gun last summer.
One was I hit a gopher while he was running @ 20 yards. Right in the throat.
Another was when I hit a whole pile of gophers from 175+ yards away.
My gun was tilted up about 20 degrees @ 495fps???

At the range I was aiming and hit right in between the eyes of the smallest human target with a Mark23 @25 yards with first shot.
 
Monty said:
When I was a kid I had a Crosman 1400 .22 cal pump up single shot pellet gun.
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aaah memories, I had a .177 break barrel, couldn't even pierce a popcan, but fun ta shoot for an 8 yr old.

Cuz' pointed to a chic-a-dee atop a near by pine tree about 40' tall (closer to 140' by my thoughts:rolleyes: ) one crank, one pellet, pop that sucker right outta there.

Go around back of the tree ta get my `trophy', dosent the darn thing flop twice and fly away....

Well its not a griz' but I still say I was defending my turf...:D
 
I think my best shot was one opening day.

That's the year I had decided to try hunting again, after a 10 year hiatus. I had killed a buck with a bow when I was 14-15 by myself, and killed a few goruse too. .anyway, girls started to look pretty interestign around then, and beer tasted prety good too...;)

After that, life got int he way, and I was building a house and a carreer. I never had any hunting mentors, so I didnt' relaly know what to do after that. I decided to just try to learn for myself. It's been a bit of a learning curve!:)

So I didn't relaly hutn again for years.

On opening day, I took ,my 20 guage shotgun out and tried to nail a grouse.

I spent all day hiling up and down hills and valleys and overgrown logging roads and trails...Didn't see a thing.

I ws hiling up a hill, to my truck, and I could see it up ahead. I was pretty discouraged, as I had been seeing grouse all summer, and now they were gone!

It was getting dark when all of a sudden a grouse flushed at about 40 yards away. I instinctively swung and fired, and the grouse went down in a flutter of feathers.

I walked up to the grouse, picked him up, smoothed out his feathers and thought to myself " I am once again, a hunter."
 
1 best + 1 fluke

My buddy and I were hunting chickens (ptarmigan) and we saw a bunch just 15 - 20 m off the road. I had my Ruger 10/22 with a red dot scope (red dot on a white head is an excellent combo). I hit one and he did the dying flutter dance in the snow but the rest took to the air. They were only 3-4 m off the ground and heading toward the treees so I put a lead on one and squeezed twice. Down it went. On checking it we found two separate bullet entry and exit holes. Of course my buddy never backs me up when we're trading stories with others (just to piss me off) but he will own up to it in private.

I had owned my Ruger and scope setup for about ten years and have put thousands of rounds through it so I feel pretty confident that the first shot was due to practice. The second, I'll admit, must surely have been a fluke.
 
So far the best comment here belongs to BIGREDD, whose Bull#### Detector is pretty good..........

I do believe some of these stories, for sure, and could share a number of similar good shot/lucky shot stories, but let's look at one post in particular from our resident PROFESSIONAL HUNTER, death-junky:

My best shot was on a small black bear at 200 yards with a Winchester M70 30/06. The bear was facing me and sitting in hallowed out stump, all I had was a neck and head shot with a bit of his chest showing. I put the cross hairs on its chest and just as it turned its head I let one go. Well the scope had been knocked off and it was shooting about 8" high so the bullet smacked it in the back of its head, then it deflected down broke its spine in about 3 places and exited out the chest.
needless to say it was BOOM, flunk kill
ttyal
Riley

This is the pimply-faced kid with the Red Ryder BB gun who sits in front of his computer playing with himself as he makes up stories to tell here on Gun Nutz. He does not own a gun, but claims to have made incredible shots like the one above. Bears do not sit inside hollow trees. Scopes knocked off kilter do not shoot in regular planes. And bullets do not defy the laws of physics like this ridiculous idea of a bullet doing several 90 degree turns.

Riley, how be you go back to your video games and stop wasting bandwidth here?

Doug
 
Anything I shoot at, and actually hit, is my best shot. I can't claim to have made any 200+ yard shots, because I haven't. I don't think I've even made one over 100yds, to be honest about it. Never shot a grouse on the wing either (which I got severely chastised for on an American hunting site). The only shot that stands out, was a frustration wing shot on a blue winged teal at about 70yds which turned out to be a killing shot. Good shot? Nah, it was pure ####house luck.
 
And I can state as a reliable witness that everything scar claims to be true is true. He is a deer magnet, and if he hit even half the deer he shoots at, his deer camp's season would be over in a couple days.

Doug
 
I thought Gatehouses "best shot story" and how it related to his life and his return as a hunter was the best so far.:cool:

I admit that I did not read many of the tall tales like the one Doug mentions... certain user-name's trigger my brain to automatically reject and ignore the words beside it... that is one of them.:rolleyes:
Captain Deadly on the other hand misses nothing.;)
 
My best shot ever involved a number of factors that do NOT get published on Internet sites, but it did not involve shooting at anything living. There were about a half-dozen witnesses, only one of who was traumatized. Friends may ask me to relate the details in person, scar please remind me to tell you about a buddy's hearing loss.

back to Redd........Maybe Captain Deadly can do a SAD mission........

Doug
 
I might get someone upset for saying this but I hit a seagull with a potato gun from the hip off my deck at about 30 yards. I didn't really think it was going to connect but it did. The seagull fell into the water and then flew away after about 30 seconds. My buddy who I duck hunt was coming in to dock his boat and was just in awe!

Camper
 
Best shot!

One of my best shots was with my .270 shooting 124 gr. gas checked cast bullets on a groundhog back in Ontario. Freehand and in a very high cross wind at 196 paces which relates to about 200 yards. One shot through the chest (point of aim) and the chuck folded. I was doing a lot of shooting then on the order of 50 rounds daily for weeks and really "knew" my rifle and what it could do. There are other long shots and quick shots that I have taken but this one stands out for me.

270 totheend
 
most memorable shot was my first 4 pt mule deer on Sept 21st 1996

offhand 165 yards, the 150 gr. Nosler BT out of my 7mm Mag smashed the spine at the shoulders and dropped him like a sack of hammers. I was the happiest 15 year old that morning.:D
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Worst would be back in 1990, with me being 14, 90lbs lugging around a 1950 mauser. Shot a Whitetail doe at about 90 yds. She took off in the bush obviously hit hard. I sent Mom back for the truck while I went to find my first animal. She was sitting up looking around with steam blowing out of her sides everytime she breathed, Had I just waited she would have died in a couple minutes, but no, gotta shoot her some more, Six times more actually, I moved too much and she bolted. When all was said and done she had a broken jaw, busted back legs and her guts were all soup. I had to wait for Dad to help me gut her as I had no clue. Lesson learned, Newbies always need guidance!

Best shots, my first black bear with my 338-06 and 250 Hornady round noses.
A bang flop on the Honey-house marauder at 50 yards. Entered the neck, stopped behind the off shoulder under the hide.
Whitetail out of my tree stand when was 17. 150 yards in the back of the melon with a .243 Blr.
 
I was hunting in the boggy meadows that dot northern Vancouver Island and jumped a two point buck I hadn't seen who had let me nearly step on him before he took off.

He bounced away, then stopped and turned right around to peer at me from about 80 yards away. Problem was he was competely obscured by bushes and facing me head on. All I could really see was the tip of an antler, an eye and his nose.

I only had iron sights on my 243 Remington Model 700 at the time, and no place to get a rest, so I aimed for that little black nose and shot off hand.

He disappeared at the shot and I didn't know whether I had missed or even grazed him or not, but when I got to the bush, there he was very very dead with a neat little 24 calibre hole smack dab in the middle of the nose.

Not a long-distance shot, but a satisfying one.
 
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