Best shot you ever made

Nothing major ,
A few years ago while at our local club
Shooting 6" shoot n see targets on top of 12 x 12 brown at 100yrds with my .223 / vortex 4x12x44 scope & we were using push pins to hold the targets up.
there was a very light wind from the right , nice sunny day. my buddy was shooting his 17 HMR & as a joke he would randomly shoot at every new target I placed before I could make a shot. .
I waited for him to replace a target and get ready .

I took shot at his target top right pin , thus the wind folding the target over so he couldn't see it.
I was amazed I hit it.
 
Nothing major but it was my first time hunting with a rifle scope that has a zero stop turret. I took my elk from a prone position at 405 meters, hit him absolutely perfect. It was really nice not having to do a hold over at that distance. I realize that isn’t a very far shot but for me that’s about the limit for hunting. My bull went down without taking more than a few steps and there was no wasted meat. B4E5CE72-9B70-4168-8471-E8BF4CB76E31.jpg
 

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Running coyote, 243 Ackley with 107 SMK zipping along....no chrono back then to confirm speed, or range finder. But I held Kentucky windage about 1/2 dog length in front of him and and squeezed the trigger. Hit him in the neck. 520 paces if I remember correctly. Of course nobody was with me to witness the shot. But was a fun day.
 
I've made a few. One great one was with a 308 Norma on a coyote running straight away at about 200 yd. At the shot the coyote piled up. Turned out I had hit him under the tail and there was no bullet hole! The bullet exited under the chin with very little damage. A flying turkey at about 30 yards with a .22 was a good shot. A ground squirrel at a little over 100yds, standing, with a T/C Contender in 30/30 was pretty good. Another one, at another ground squirrel, on the other side of the Clearwater river, in Idaho, with a 45/70, off hand. Hitting a clay pigeon at 1000 yds with a 1903 Springfield was pretty gratifying. Hitting a 500m ram at a silhouette match with only 3 seconds left might have been more impressive if I hadn't missed the previous six!
 
Great thread topic.
I was 12 with my first Shakespeare Necedah recurve bow that I bought with paper route money. Not a wise purchase-had a 55 pound draw weight and was as long as I was tall. I somehow nailed a snowshoe rabbit at 30 yards.
 
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Blacktail buck in thick cover. It wasn't very far but I had to thread the needle through a tremendous tangle of brush and I only had a space about the size of the palm of my hand to shoot through. Bullet hit pretty much where I aimed.
 
My 2 favorite are the moose and a deer head shots at 25ft, both times they dropped so fast in thick brush I thought I missed.
 
Early one cool winter morning I looked out the kitchen window and a coyote was sneaking around at the end of the field, I grabbed the nearest rifle my sons 220 swift, went out on the balcony knelt on the deck rested on the railing -20c kneeling in light fresh snow in my under wear not long Johns and let fly. After breakfast when I picked him up I reset the atv gps and drove back to the house 428 meters.
 
I have nothing to brag about really, I don’t hunt predators, I don’t hunt deers, so long shots are not that frequent here and plus I like to try and get close, as close as I can! But I shot a few moose from the bow of a canoe moving down river on them! It is always a good feeling, especially when both are moving, canoe moving down streams and moose moving out of the water...
 
I don’t know if this counts, but I took a coyote running at full speed with my Marlin (JM serial number) 336ss in 30-30, with just the factory irons. He was running away from my cousin and I from right to left. My cousin started firing with his enfield, I let loose with the Marlin. I started with aiming at the coyote, saw branches fall behind him. Aimed further ahead, still stuff falling behind him, and so on for 5 rounds. For the 6th round I was holding a full coyote length ahead of him, he was about 100 yards away at this point. When I let number six go all four of his feet met in the middle and he did an odd little shuffle for about 5 yards, then tipped over. Upon arrival it turned out the bullet slipped between ribs on both sides and nailed the heart. Pretty minimal pelt damage, not that the crows cared.

As a side note, my cousin and his enfield weren’t much of a threat to most living creatures, haha.
 
I've made a few... Ground squirrel with just his head poking up and dropping down into the hold with a buddy when I was maybe 15 at 200-ish yards after he missed it with his dads scoped Hornet. I shot him with a Cooey Ace. Shot, gopher disappeared and he says "Missed". "Nope, dead for sure." and then the gopher bounced out shot through the head. Unluckiest ground squirrel in the history of ground squirrels.

427 yard Coyote at a 45% decline on Christmas Eve 2011 with a buddy, full value wind about 40kph as the dog trotted straight towards us. Grabbed hold of an aspen sucker about the size of my thumb and tracked him in the scope and gave him a bunch of wind hold and sent a 40gr Vmax from a 223AI on its way. "Missed" he says. "Nope, dead dog." Crawl down to the swamp edge and walked out to the tracks and he says "No blood. Missed" "Nope, no bullet strike in ice. Dead dog, and here is a piece of the jacket." Follow the tracks for 40 yards and there is some blood, and then a dead dog. Perfectly center punched in the front of the brisket. Must have missed the end of his nose by less than a centimeter based on the angle of the shot.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take....
 
My favourite is when the old lady comes out to the range with me and hits the gong at 200 every time with my 223. It’s super satisfying watching that and her reaction.

I’m so blessed to have a wife that is supportive of my expensive habits of hunting and shooting.
 
Target - Tried lighting a redbird wooden match, mythbuster style with a .45 at about 25 feet

1st shot took the match head clean off but no fire, I decided to retire after that one shot and declare myth busted
 
Whitetail running across a beaver dam at 130 yards (well more like galloping, hard for them to run on dams). Two shots from Win M70 in .270 with scope at 4X. Deer never missed a step and carried on into the woods. Dang! Half an hour later I went looking and found the deer dead 30 yards into the woods. Two holes right behind the shoulder 1" apart. Proof is in my avatar pic :)
 
I was working on a farm. Didn’t have anyone to watch my 6 year old son. I threw one of the old pellet guns in the truck. When we got there. Jake asked the farmer if he could set up a target and shoot. The farmer asked what he was shooting. He said just a pellet gun. It’s not like a 30/30 or a shot gun it’s pretty safe. The farmer let him go around back and shoot. Jake came back half hour later with a target. The 1” Center was blown right out. Not a single flyer. He showed Ron the farmer. I could see from a distance. Ron came over to tell me how great Jake was shooting. I called Jake over. Told him that looks like great shooting. He says yup. Awesome group hey dad. I asked him how far away were you when you were shooting. He held up his arms about this far. Less than 6 inches. It was pretty funny.
 
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