Best shot you've personally witnessed.

[mrawesome22]

This thread is about the best/most amazingly accurate/lucky kill you've witnessed. And no "About 10 hours later we found it" stuff.

I'd also like to not here about shooting deer "in the head at 100yds with a 22LR".

Anyway, I'll start it off with this.

I and my uncle take off from my father by law's house and spot a coyote standing 153yds (later determined by a laser range finder) in the corn field. So my uncle reaches behind his seat and gets his 44RemMag Blackhawk. Props it on the sill... bam! Coyote goes down.

I asked where he was aiming... "Right on it". LOL

Coyote was no good. Bad mange.

It was a fantastic shot though.

[zoomie]

My father-in-law took a running antelope at 200 yards with an iron-sighted 270. He was pretty shocked. I might have the caliber wrong.

[nosualc]

In central South Dakota, I saw a guy hit a running jack-rabbit with an iron sighted .357 magnum, from about 75 yards.

I thought it was dumb luck until his relatives said he's made that shot many times before. I still think it was dumb luck...

-nosualc

[Phelptwan]

My uncle is blind in one eye and can still manage to take coins off of fence posts with .22lr.

[ZeSpectre]

Watched my dad drop a whitetail DRT with one (braced on a treelimb) shot with a .243 chambered Remington 760. We paced it off after the shot 215-220 yards. According to his longtime friend and hunting buddy it wasn't the first time dad had done that and the friend could never figure out how dad pulled it off with "that dinky damn .243".

[Freetacos]

A friend of our could shoot clays with a .45. He didn't hit them all the time but when he did it was pretty impressive. Oh yeah, and they were laying on the ground when he shot them.

[MAUSER88]

My best shot was with a Ruger Super Blackhawk witha 7 1/2" barrel. At 200 yards I hit a 2 liter soad bottle filled with water and food color so i could see it. Of course it took me 40 shoots before I actually hit it.

[srtrax]

How about a humming bird with an open sighted 30/30 and before you go screaming at me i didnt do the shootin, i set back with a grin on my face because there was no way! Still cant believe it. In flight,at about 45 yds.

[WestWorld]

Knocked the flame out on a candle at 20 feet with a peanut... and I called it before I threw... OK... not firearm related

[Hemicuda]

My father, at 450 measured yards, with a lever-action Winchester Mod. 94 in 30-30 Win, stock old iron sights, he hit and killed a deer, with 4 out of five shots... the thing was dead from shot ont, but it was still running, and didn't realize it...

[Vitamin G]

Had one of the stereotypical know-it-all, my dad owns the range, mall ninja type, range officers scoff at my friend and I when we ran out of rifle ammo at the rifle section. Just for fun, we pulled out some handguns and went for the 100yd, 150yd, and 200yd gongs and steel plates. He made some "No way in hell" comment, and we calmly proceded to smack the gongs at various ranges about an average of 50% of the time, more or less depending on the distance.

10mm really does shoot flat

[SD_Chop]

One of our range instructors at our PD shot the whole qual course with his support hand and still shot expert, was pretty impressive

[rantingredneck]

About three or four years ago my father in law and I were bowhunting, we were only about 50-60 yds apart overlooking a green food plot. The first night I killed a doe at about 5:00pm only to have a nice 8pt. walk into the food plot at 5:05. I took a walking shot on him at 35yds and drilled him right through the boiler room. He dropped within 30 yds of where he was standing when I shot. It PO'd my father in law because the buck was walking toward him when I shot.

The next night is the amazing one though. My FIL told me I better put my hands in my pockets and not shoot any deer out from under him any more. I watched 14 deer walk through the plot that afternoon and evening and didn't shoot any of them. Finally a nice fat doe walked into the plot at about 15 minutes before the end of legal shooting light. She was 20 FEET not yards from my FIL's stand. I waited and waited for him to take the shot. For a few minutes I got worried that maybe he'd had a heart attack or something. Finally with light dwindling I hear the twang of his bowstring and see an arrow fly downward into the brisket of the doe. She was facing him when he shot. The doe reared up on it's hind legs and fell over on it's back DRT. I've never seen an arrow do that to a deer. His arrow was buried to the fletching right where her neck and brisket connected.

[Mach II Sailor]

this is a shot i made with 7 witnesses !!

in Colorado abt. 1980 winter, some of us guys decided on a winter "Mountain Man" trek, about 2 miles into a ten mile hike and hunt one of the guys kicked out a Snowshoe Hare, 5 guys shot at it and missed, the Hare was still running straight away from at about 150 yds., i pulled up my self made Hawken .54 cal Flintlock and let a round fly, the bunny went down, one of the other fellows retreived the bunny and stepped off the distance.., 163 paces and a head shot no less, needless to say i was as surprized as the others, but i had to maintain my cool by saying, "damn good shootin.., huh fellas"

BTW i have made 52 custom muzzle loaders and every one has been a shooting contest winner..., oooooh ! we did get two more bunnies on that hunt and roasted them over a fire then hiked back home.

[capbuster]

At a hunters pistol match,two fellows had to participate in a shootoff to determine the winner. It was decided that they would shoot at the turkeys at 75 meters. As a joke,David,a fellow club member suggested that they use the chickens instead at that distance.His rival,from Anniston,Alabama,agreed to this proposal. He shot first and missed. David nailed it and won the match.

[targetshootr]

I saw Bob Munden when he came to town but he used wax loads at short distance for quick draw stuff. But on American Shooter he nailed a balloon offhand with his 454 FA from 200 yards. It would have popped the balloon no matter where it hit the plate but there was only one mark on the plate and it was dead center. I believe he sells a video of a bear kill from the same distance.

[Skunk]

Knocked the flame out on a candle at 20 feet with a peanut... and I called it before I threw... OK... not firearm related - WestWorld

+1 WestWorld,

When I was a kid, my friend knocked a Tree Rat out of the crotch of a branch at about 30 yards, with a walnut. The branch was at least 30 feet high. Latter that day, he pitch a no hitter in little league.

Skunk

[Magdaddy]

A mallard shot out of the air from a jon boat with a .32 H&R.

[targetshootr]

The best shot I ever made was around age six and I was walking home and saw a rabbit by the creek bank and picked up a rock (cause that's what we did back then) and I hit that rascal from about 75 feet. It didn't even move. Just sat there. Then after a bit it hopped away. Never will forget the thump sound the rock made when it landed. As soon as it hit I wish I hadn't thrown it.

[Justme]

I once took a shot to the head with a baseball bat, from my little brother. He had an anger managment issue. I was about 11-12 at the time and he was 6-7. Baseball bats are very underrated weapons.

[L_Killkenny]

My best personal shot was a coyote, running full out and quatering away. 450 yards with the range finder. Gun, a Savage 22/250. To say the least I was happy.

CB

[tony pasley]

To see some amazing shots go to Camp Perry and watch the matches there.

[Weimadog]

A group of six inches, at 7 yards, from a .38 Special K Frame revolver.

What made the shooting impressive to me was it was done by my wife, a few weeks after she gave birth. She didn't practice at all for 9 months, out of concern of harming our developing child.

The six shots were as fast as she could pull the trigger, like might be done in a defensive situation.

She's much better when we shoot on a weekly basis.

While practice is important, it's also good to know that without practice, the skill level does not go to zero.

[DavidZ]

Just the other day I nailed a squirrel in the head with a Texas Firefly (aka lit cigarrette butt) from about 15 feet. Funny thing is that it took a second before he realized he'd been burned & jumped a foot off the ground running away.


The first & only time I've been hunting I took down a 300# boar from about 150 yds. The next day I got an 8 pointer from about 50 yds. Both shots with my friend's 25-06 that I never shot before. Upon cleaning we realized that both shots had disintigrated both animals' hearts.

[Walter]

I was 5 feet from a Marine sniper when he nailed a Viet Cong at what
he said was about a thousand meters. He and his partner "ranged the shot",
his partner got down on all-fours, the gunner laid the Remington across his
back and squeezed off the round. A second or two later the VC throws his
arms up and falls over backwards. Poof.
Like they say, "one shot, one kill".
FYI, that happened in the "Dodge City" area, south of Hill 55, Quang Nam
province, in late Jan. or early Feb., 1970. I was with L 3/1, the snipers
just joined up with our platoon the night before to have a look around the
area as we patrolled.
Semper Fi...

Walter