best shot ever made?

Not exactley a great shot but definetly my most memorable.

Deer hunting near Parry Sound in a gang of 14 guys, all at least 20 years older than me (I was 16 at the time). We had done a few drives early in the morning and bagged a few nice deer. A few old guys were tuckered so they went back to camp.

The redt of us went to a spot I had never hunted before so I was asked to be a sitter instead of a dogger as it was getting dark quickly and were were just making a quickie run.

The guy in charge of getting us sitters to our spots starts jabbering about who he's gonna stick on the "Beaver Dam". No one pipes up, so I said I would go there (being the new guy I try to be as accomodating as possible, but not anymore:D ). Immediately everyone agrees to that and off we go.

Along the way all the guys are telling me about how bad this "Beaver Dam" stand is, and how many deer have been missed there and so on. I'm thinking I just might have gotten roped into subjecting myself to years of teasing over this one little hunt.

I get dropped off near the Dam with instruction on how to get there and what to look for. I walk about 100yds to find my stand. Its about a 60ft long beaver dam at the bottom of a pretty decent gully and its covered in deer tracks.

I set up about 30yds from the dam and about 20 minutes pass before the dogs fire up. They sound like there running a prety hot trail. Less than 2 miuntes latter a doe suprises me and gets across the beaver dam before I can sholder the gun. Just seconds later another doe hits the dam running. Bang!!!, I nailed this one just as she hit the midway point of the dam.

Im feeling pretty good as I work the bolt on the old 788 in .308. Just as UI get the bolt down a spike buck hits the dam going flat out. Bang!! Bang!! I missed with the first shot and dont even remember working the bolt for the second shot that broke his back. He needed a finisher but all was good.

The old boys were telling stories all night like I was friggin Annie Oakley or something. Handshakes all around. Pretty proud moment for a 16 year old on his first "Hunt Camp" hunt.
 
I kill a wasp 12 feet away with a rubber band once free hand open site. Oneshot drop dead. true story :D

But back to hunting hunting grouse a group of about 6 in the same area got all six with head shots with a 20 guage not one bb to the body. Funnest time I've had hunting.
 
MY most memorable shot was on a buckfawn this year. I was laughing so hard, I allmost fell out of the treestand when it happened. Its about 8ft up in the air, and I was sitting on a large branch infront of it. Wondering what the hell I was doing there. wasnt 200 yards from the 404 highway, and watched literally thousands of cars go by. All of a sudden, @ 6:30 PM,
There were 10 deer that went by me, and I could only stop one of them. A doe at about 45 yards. I was about to shoot her with the Xbow, when a buckfawn came busting out of the bush below me, right below my stand.
I literally reached down with the bow, (basically one handed). I pulled the trigger not a few feet away from the buckfawn. (I allmost touched the stirrup to the back of his head before pulling the trigger) and he folded up like a two dollar suitcase.
It had been a pretty emotional 2 weeks as someone in my family was pretty sick. (and that was actually the last day I got to talk to them)
All I could do was laugh like a little schoolgirl. The way it came together, it was like watching a blooper reel.
I was hunting with another gunnut at the time too...


I've seen two shots in my life that you would have had to be there to believe.
Neither far, but the manner in which it happened...

But the best long shot I've seen to date was REDD @ 495 in a 30 KM/hr crosswind.
I was figuring out where to shoot, and would have missed because he gave me the wrong distance.
He told me 425, but his old eyes missed the 495 that it really was (When I re-ranged it from the same spot). and for a 95gr ballistic tip out of a 243, that difference would have been a complete miss.
But that 25 WSSM didnt :)
 
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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:
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Bigredd

I will never, ever forget that day, that road, that shotgun, that shot or that grouse.

That one single grouse changed my life, I am not sure if it was for the better.:) ;)
 
the best shot i ever made would be my first two deer one doe and one buck. On the doe the shot went through one lung then preceded through the heart and went 2 inches into the liver dropping her dead. On the buck the shot was almost identical went through the shoulder and broke it then exploded into the heary and ending up into the guts of the deer which ended up running about 10 yards before falling to the ground.
 
We had received word that a large gopher army was advancing from the north, aparently hell-bent on spreading communism. The only defenders of democracy were two 17 year olds with 22's.

Their body count was high and democracy was safe, so we headed her in. On the trip back to the car I noticed a cheeky red devil defiantly standing against us...

I raised my gun and *bang* but he didn't drop. *bang* still there. I reassed and walked forward *bang* Walk forward *bang* aim at the ground an inch below him *bang* a puff of dust blows him in the face. The monster doesn't wince or blink.

I walk all the way up to him and was about to shoot him once more when I realised that he was a piece of wood. He was carved and painted like a gopher.

I guess somone had a good laugh about that...
 
Hello deer hunter 88!

Are you actually death junky with a second handle? That is not permitted here, eh?

Let's just take a look at that post:

the best shot i ever made would be my first two deer one doe and one buck. On the doe the shot went through one lung then preceded through the heart and went 2 inches into the liver dropping her dead. On the buck the shot was almost identical went through the shoulder and broke it then exploded into the heary and ending up into the guts of the deer which ended up running about 10 yards before falling to the ground.

Now let me get this straight, since I have performed autopsies on a couple hundred deer, give or take a dozen or two, and not yet have I seen one whose organs were in such disarray as your alleged doe, nor your alleged buck. If I understand you correctly, the angle of the shot on the doe was such that (being very acute or obtuse, in the latter case like some of the folks posting here), it went through one lung only. Fair enough, if the deer is sharply facing you or facing away, or if you are shooting from far enough below her or far enough above, you will only hit one lung. I believe this part, well sort of. Now then the bullet allegedly hits the heart, which is below the lungs unless the doe was standing on her back feet. OK that is clear then, the shot was from a high tree stand or similar elevated position such that the bullet travelled on such a steep angle that it went through one lung and hit the heart. I have done this myself, and it is a good shot indeed. Now please tell me, sir, at this point how did the bullet reverse direction and travel upwards and backwards to hit the liver? And for that matter, how did two inches of liver stop your shot? The physics and physiology of this one are for the record books....

Now for your alleged buck:

(I am assuming you are dreaming about, er pardon me, talking about bullets here, and not some kind of eighteeen-pointed broadhead shot only by fourth dan mall ninjas and others of that persuasion).

So this mythical "almost identical" (your words) shot hit the shoulder (always an unfortunate situation because of meat loss, but it happens to the best of us), then EXPLODED (OMG!!!) into something, maybe the heart because I am not sure what is a heary...........OK so far, your bullet is on a VERY VERY steep downward path to hit a shoulder and then the heart. It can be done, but the buck is just about directly underneath you at this point - perhaps an engineer here can calculate the angle, I am thinking about seventy degrees or better? And then, miracle of miracles, O blessed Lourdes! that bullet turned at least ninety degrees and went backwards into the guts.

You, sir, defy the laws of physics, and more importantly, truth and common sense. If you are not Riley by another name, based on your nodding acquaintance with the truth and inability to use the English language properly, perhaps you could just go back to stroking your Red Ryder and anything else you like to stroke, and don't waste our time and bandwidth.

BIGREDD, where is Captain Deadly? WE need to smite a troll!

Doug
 
Well, my best shot to date won't need Uncle Doug to explain the physics ;):D.

I was blacktail hunting in the Queen Charlottes 3 seasons back and stalked to within 127 yards on a feeding buck (I had a range finder). The little guy was feeding behind a fallen log and only offered a head shot between mouthfuls of grass. I was able to lay down on the road above him and wait for the shot. He was quartering away and I put the .243 100gr right behind his ear. No meat damage and what a tasty bit of venison he was (or at least one of the five we got that day :D). So for those guys who don't believe in head shots, I normally don't take them either. However, I was very confident with my handloads and how the .243 shoots. Also, a miss would have been a clean miss, unless it went throught the ears, but that is another story...;):D

James
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Camper said:
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!

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buddy hit a black bear with a potato gun @ 100 yds:eek: . He was fishing in a boat, and the bear was on shore. (I dont' think he would attempt otherwise)
 
When I was a young lad I threw a lock blade pocket knife at a bird sitting in a tree. The range must have been between 20 to 25 yards. Would'nt you know it but that knife stuck that poor bird right through the chest and pinned it to the tree. My friend was watching this we had a good hoot over it.

Many other lucky shots on game that were realy nothing more than stupid decisions gone right.
 
The best for me was on a groundhog, using a Remington 700 in .222. I never really get shots over 100 yards, but this hog stood up at between 275 and 300 yards (AO on my scope). I only had a fence post as a rest and a 3-9x40mm Weaver scope cranked. I knew I was sighted for 200 so a little high and a little left for wind, hit him right in the neck. To be honest I never shot at that range and did not know the gun at that point at that range but I knew if I hit him he was done. My buddy was shooting a 22LR and asked me what I wanted for the gun after that shot. I still have the gun and have nothing even close to it for accuracy, pretty good for $300 from my uncle.
 
hello doug

Now first off I do admit I was a little unclear about the doe and disagree with your statement that the heart sits to far below the lungs to hit both the heart and the lungs from the ground. As you can see if you look at the picture I provided a link to it is easily possible to hit both the lungs and the heart from an equal elevation. now where I was unclear about the shot on the doe was that I did not include that the bullet after passing throug the lung and the heart the bullet deflected off the ribs and into the liver.
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Now what you said about the shot on the buck was also wrong in my opinion although you were right about wasting alot of meat. the deer was facing me straight on and the shot hit the deer in the right shoulder which slightly deflected the bullet into the top right side of the heart then passing into the stomache wher the bullet stayed just about 2 inches into the left side of the deers stomache.
 
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