RobertBrown
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Guns: What's the best shot you ever made?
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RadarTech
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Best shots....
800 yards. Rotten honey do melons.. Barrett 50
3 inch group with a 45 at 20 feet 15 shots 20 seconds
Can of tomatoes 170 feet sitting indian style With a friend's 204
And my favorite USPSA Classifier. El presidente
11.4 seconds 12 shots all alphas using 2 magazines of 6 rounds each..starting facing away from the target holstered and loaded .. Hands above shoulders....
800 yards. Rotten honey do melons.. Barrett 50
3 inch group with a 45 at 20 feet 15 shots 20 seconds
Can of tomatoes 170 feet sitting indian style With a friend's 204
And my favorite USPSA Classifier. El presidente
11.4 seconds 12 shots all alphas using 2 magazines of 6 rounds each..starting facing away from the target holstered and loaded .. Hands above shoulders....
MistyBlue
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AI AW .308 @ 100 yards. First time out with her new rifle and after half dozen practice shots. Trick was to pierce each casing without blowing out the side.
This was her second attempt:
Her best was at boot camp though and they didn't take photos for me, LOL! But she scored a perfect in her qualifying and not only got her expert badge but nailed the Leatherneck Award for High Shooter. :thumbsup:
missingstexas
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About 3 yrs ago sitting in a deer blind watching 2 or three management bucks under a feeder in South Texas, my best friend and his 4 yr old son next to me. My buddy says to me "what is that?". I grab my binoculars and start scanning the oat patch and about 400 yards away see a dust trail heading towards the feeder. I'm not kidding, less than 20 seconds between his first words to me (while he has his binoculars in his hands) and I hear the safety click off and a report of the Savage .308 and get to see the coyote fall dead in his tracks. Not only was it pretty far, the coyote was running, and relatively small (maybe 25lbs). I joked with him saying that he just scared it to death and didn't really hit him. I was so impressed I ended the hunt right there and stepped off the distance to the yote and there it was half of its right face blown off from and exit wound. When he took the shot I hadn't fully comprehended exactly what it was running across that dusty dirt field. That's the best I've seen.
My personal best isn't close to most of the other stories here, but I'll share it anyway. On a paid hunt in deep south Texas, I'm guessing 15 years ago, the guide with me stops the truck one morning and gets his binoculars out to look down a power line right of way at a feeder and says "OK here's your chance at a Javelina." I quickly respond, no thanks, I don't want any stinking Havo... He says "well, we're currently trying to keep them in check they're hurting the quail population (I still don't think Javelinas are the reason they were fighting to keep quail around, the red ants are WAY more harmful to them). so we shoot all we see and then donate the meat to our local church, so please if you don't mind shoot one for me." I get the .270 out and lean across the hood, and he tells me the feeder they are under is about 275 yards off. So I settle in and wait for 2 to cross paths, squeeze the trigger and dropped them both. 1st one through the ear, 2nd right in the front shoulder.
My personal best isn't close to most of the other stories here, but I'll share it anyway. On a paid hunt in deep south Texas, I'm guessing 15 years ago, the guide with me stops the truck one morning and gets his binoculars out to look down a power line right of way at a feeder and says "OK here's your chance at a Javelina." I quickly respond, no thanks, I don't want any stinking Havo... He says "well, we're currently trying to keep them in check they're hurting the quail population (I still don't think Javelinas are the reason they were fighting to keep quail around, the red ants are WAY more harmful to them). so we shoot all we see and then donate the meat to our local church, so please if you don't mind shoot one for me." I get the .270 out and lean across the hood, and he tells me the feeder they are under is about 275 yards off. So I settle in and wait for 2 to cross paths, squeeze the trigger and dropped them both. 1st one through the ear, 2nd right in the front shoulder.
jdrobison
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started out shooting a Remington 22 semi auto when I was 8 or 9. got to where i could hit a steel post at a 100 yards open sights.
best shot deer hunting, I was walking back to the house late in the eve, still had prob 15 min of hunting time. I come up to friends fence along a bean field and on the other side i see a buck and 3 or 4 doe out feeding. I know it is 150 yards across the field but they are at one end diagonal across from me and I guess its about 225. I am using a ruger 30.06 stainless with 12 power scope and hand loaded ammo.
I lay the gun across a post and take a deep breath and sight just above the bucks back and slowly pull the trigger. it seems to take forever for the bullet to get there and the buck jumps a little and trots always and stops looking back to where he had been. I take another shot at him but forget to hold up and see it hit the dirt right under him and he takes off.
I look back to where it started and there are 2 does interested in something on the ground, I only have a buck tag so I dont shoot and decide to go see whats there. I step it off as I go and at 375 where the buck had been standing, there is a doe laying with a shot thru the spine in her neck. I never seen her and she had to be standing right in front of the buck when I shot the first time. getting her back across that wet bean field was a tiring chore but mighty tasty later on.
I had my scope zeroed at 200 and im figuring it was a foot low at 375.
I also had a 303 British that I would shoot pop cans at 200 yds open sights at the range. wish i had kept it as most of them were so wore you were lucky to hit a can at 50. I think I had 3 or 4 over the years that were wore out.
best shot deer hunting, I was walking back to the house late in the eve, still had prob 15 min of hunting time. I come up to friends fence along a bean field and on the other side i see a buck and 3 or 4 doe out feeding. I know it is 150 yards across the field but they are at one end diagonal across from me and I guess its about 225. I am using a ruger 30.06 stainless with 12 power scope and hand loaded ammo.
I lay the gun across a post and take a deep breath and sight just above the bucks back and slowly pull the trigger. it seems to take forever for the bullet to get there and the buck jumps a little and trots always and stops looking back to where he had been. I take another shot at him but forget to hold up and see it hit the dirt right under him and he takes off.
I look back to where it started and there are 2 does interested in something on the ground, I only have a buck tag so I dont shoot and decide to go see whats there. I step it off as I go and at 375 where the buck had been standing, there is a doe laying with a shot thru the spine in her neck. I never seen her and she had to be standing right in front of the buck when I shot the first time. getting her back across that wet bean field was a tiring chore but mighty tasty later on.
I had my scope zeroed at 200 and im figuring it was a foot low at 375.
I also had a 303 British that I would shoot pop cans at 200 yds open sights at the range. wish i had kept it as most of them were so wore you were lucky to hit a can at 50. I think I had 3 or 4 over the years that were wore out.
jeepcj7
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Kicked up a rabbit while walking to the house for lunch during deer season years ago - shot the head off that running rabbit at 25 yds with a 12 gauge slug - we had it for lunch. More luck than skill.
Uncle Doug
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My best shot was as a teenager 40 years ago. I was tasked to keep the birds out of grandma's fig tree. I walked out the back door with a single pump BB gun it hand only to see the latest fig thief take flight. One quick pump and shoulder the gun just as the bird reached a tall pine tree about 100 foot away. I thought it was a long shot but tried it anyway. The bird drops straight down. Been a lousy shot most all times since then.
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Best/luck shot I ever made...
I was on a deer lease in west texas. The deer out there have fairly nice racks but barley dress out over a 100 pounds. Some of the other guys had seen a good group of turkeys and said one of the toms was white. I did not pay too much attention as I had never hunted turkeys and my stand was no where near where they were seen.
The next morning I'm sitting in the box-blind watchin' a feeder about 90 yards away (yeah, we still call it hunting...) There were a couple of yearling does milling around, I'm thinkin' about to hanging it up for the day and firing up a big fat cigar. It was a little cold to be dropping a deer anyway, ist was dang near in the 30s! About that time a herd of turkeys runs by me on both sides of the stand, charging to the feeder. Never seen anything like it. Kinda flustered me. I put the Browning BBR .270 in position and what fills the scope? A white turkey... What little I knew about turkeys, I did know to try and take out the back when hunting with a rifle. From the time I shouldered the rifle to the time I pulled the trigger was less than a second. Every bird took off running or flying. There lie the white bird. I walked up to him expecting to see a hole I could stick a baseball through. Nope, could not find a hole. Then I looked at the head, there was a hole right through the eyes. I had the bird mounted. The taxidermist said it was a very easy mount. :laughing:
I was on a deer lease in west texas. The deer out there have fairly nice racks but barley dress out over a 100 pounds. Some of the other guys had seen a good group of turkeys and said one of the toms was white. I did not pay too much attention as I had never hunted turkeys and my stand was no where near where they were seen.
The next morning I'm sitting in the box-blind watchin' a feeder about 90 yards away (yeah, we still call it hunting...) There were a couple of yearling does milling around, I'm thinkin' about to hanging it up for the day and firing up a big fat cigar. It was a little cold to be dropping a deer anyway, ist was dang near in the 30s! About that time a herd of turkeys runs by me on both sides of the stand, charging to the feeder. Never seen anything like it. Kinda flustered me. I put the Browning BBR .270 in position and what fills the scope? A white turkey... What little I knew about turkeys, I did know to try and take out the back when hunting with a rifle. From the time I shouldered the rifle to the time I pulled the trigger was less than a second. Every bird took off running or flying. There lie the white bird. I walked up to him expecting to see a hole I could stick a baseball through. Nope, could not find a hole. Then I looked at the head, there was a hole right through the eyes. I had the bird mounted. The taxidermist said it was a very easy mount. :laughing:
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