The best shot you ever made

Once when I was out shooting gophers in a canola field that was pretty much destroyed by the critters. My brother and I were both lined up on the same gopher as if one missed the other got it.
I shot and simply missed, but the gopher reacted like it was hit by a 30-30!
It turns out that I hit a rock and richocheted into the gopher. I am guessing the bullet was deformed enough after the first impact that it really tore it up.

So we spent the afternoon trying to "bounce" bullets off rocks. Not all that hard with a .22 really. And of course squealing with glee every time...:dancingbanana:
 
Last fall....shot 2 grouse with one shot with my Model 71 .348 Winchester, took the head off the one I was aiming at and the ricochet tore the top of the head off the one 10 yards behind him, lol! The third flew off before I could lever another shell. Aside from that I took out a flock of 4 green-winged teal out of the sky one evening in one shot with my Browning Gold 10.
 
My best shots have been with my old Globeco sxs 20 guage and taking ruffed grouse doubles on the wing, in the woods.
I have also made some nice 'long' range shots with my Brno 2E .22LR. But I have had thousands and thousands of practice shots with that rifle, so I kind of expect to hit what I am aiming with that one.
I also made a few doubles on Grey Partridge on the wing. They are bloody fast and erratic.
 
Curt, I very much admire your making a double on ruffed grouse on the wing. They are one of the hardest birds to hit and a single is a good shot.
And 220Swifty, I improvised the Lyman aperature on my 69A. I extended it rearward, to where it just clears the eye. In fact, with those adjustable aperatures screwed in it, the type with the large rubber outer ring, I rest the rubber ring on my eyebrow! This makes the most solid sighting combination I have ever used.
I extended the Lyman using my motto of, "It may not be pretty for nice, but it is good for strong." Even I think it is a bit crude, so maybe I will take a picture of it and show you guys.
 
Here is the extended sight on my Winchester.
Second picture shows the adjustable size aperature opening.
In the glory days of shooting, there were a great many turkey shoots. A common method of competition was offhand 22 shooting. Sometimes it was for one shot, closest to the centre wins, or three shots for total score.
In either method of competition, that outfit brought home, probably more than my share, of turkeys, or full sized smoked hams.
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My best shot dates back to my early teens when I shot thousands and thousands of rounds out of my break action .177 pellet gun. I can remember dropping a small moth from about 30 yards over iron sights off hand. The critter was stationary on a blade of grass in my neighbor's yard.

Cheers,
 
my best one , thus far , was 2 years ago , 3 deer 3 bullets , under a minute! 3 deer walked out into the clearing , i shot the buck , he dropped, shot the doe she dropped, shot the second doe she dropped , not one of the deer ran more than 10 yards each time I shot one . I had 2 tags in my pocket, and since we were party hunting , got to put the third deer on one of my buddy's tags. Best one for me ever , then same season a week later buddy got 2 deer with one bullet ..... bullet entered first deer , split in 2 exited and hit second deer in the head and heart..... now that is a fluke if ever i saw one , never would have believed it if i hadn't been there myself :)
 
My best shot came just a few weeks ago. Hit a coyote on the trot at 150yds with my .243. Clean shot, instant termination. I was happy with that.
 
Funny shot . I was walking a trail with a double 12 and spooked 3 grouse . Two took off across the trail and one flew straight at me like an Exocet missle with wings . I pulled the trigger when it was about 6 inches from the muzzle . It exploded like in a cartoon in a cloud of feathers .

Best or most memorable shot was with a Delta H-Bar AR-15 . There was a rise in the field but Dad spotted an 8 point buck looking at us . Head was visable and that was it . I asked Dad , how far ? He figured 300 yards . Sighted for 100 yards i put the crosshairs between the bucks antlers above his forehead and fired . The buck actually ducked as the bullet whistled a fraction of an inch over his head . I lowered the crosshair about 3 inches and squeezed another round . The buck disappeared from my scope and i thought i missed . No sign of him because of the rise in the middle of the field . Dad was watching through binoculars and told me that i had him him dead center in the forehead . I'd did . 310 long paces . At 310 paces the 55 grain Federal soft point went through the skull , scrambled the brain and we found bullet fragments in the vertibrae a foot down the bucks neck .

Lucky shot . I was about 10 just under 50 years ago and had a single shot Cooey Ace .22 . Spotted 3 raccoons in a tree at the other end of a field . Don't know how high i aimed but i pulled the trigger and a raccoon dropped from the maple . Probably 250 yards . I fired at least a dozen more shots trying to nail the other two with no luck so i walked under the tree and popped them .

One more lucky one . Also about 10 years old i was riding on the fender of grandads tractor when a groundhog came up . Grandad handed me his 9 shot Iver Johnson revolver and told me to nail the groundhog . I'd shot that revolver lots and 5 yards at a tin can was about my maximum range . I fired at the groundhog and hit him just above the nose . About 60 yards . Grandad stuck the revolver in my belt and told me it was mine .
 
Two years ago, a running whitetail at about 185 yards with a 45/70, caught it at the base of the skull and blew out the jugular, did an instant face plant.

Most memorable, my dad's 30-30 Marlin 336, he let me shoot it at about 7 years old which was probably a bad plan. Several years and the next time I shot it later I still remembered how much the "big rifle" kicked. Target was a coke flat propped up on a stub branch of a pine tree. Aimed at the stub because I was expecting to have it kick up, and ended up blowing the stub off the tree, about 100 yards offhand.
 
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