What is the best shot you ever made?

[PA1749]

Okay, in the spirit of continuing the "best of" discussions...what is the best shot you ever made? Here is your chance to brag a little, BUT it has to be true. ; )

This one is up there for me. I took down a whitetail that was running full speed, broadside, at about 40 yards. I got off three shots with a bolt action and put it down on the third shot.

The next year, I put one down that was running straight away from be at about 50 yards. One shot right through the tail.

Both time I was using a Remington 700 ADL .270 with a Bushnell 3-9x40 scope.

How about you?

[Zeeba]

It's hard to decide between two shots I've made, both involving woodchuck hunting.
The first, a 460-yard shot, determined by rangefinder, with a Remington 700 BDL bull barreled .22-250 with the forend propped on a fence post.
The other, a chuck at 87 paces with a Super Blackhawk .44 Magnum fired from a prone position. What makes it so memorable is when I spotted the chuck, I hit the ground - and put my right elbow into a cowpie. This was like a good bagel, i.e. crusty on the outside, and squishy on the inside.

[BestDefense=StrongOffense]

Best shot I ever made...

Started with Jameson, added a touch of Creme de Mint, topped off with Bombay Sapphire. Tasty.

[Shodan]

I shot deer running at over 100 yards once.



























I was running.

[PisnNapalm]

Since nearly all of my shooting has been at paper targets...

I picked off a fly at 50 yards with my 22 rifle.



Also... Once when I was a kid I picked off a bird from about 50 feet while it was flying overhead. I used my trusty ten pump Crossman BB rifle for that shot.

[Shodan]

I may or may not have shot a ground hog at about 50 yards once with the first shot out of my newly purchased Khar P9.

[jaseman]

Best shot? Was actually ten shots.

Was on the rifle team in high school, shooting an Anschuitz (sp?) bolt action .22 competition rifle. it's a right handed gun, but I'm a lefty, so every shot (from a prone position) I had to reach over the rifle, without disrupting my position, to open the bolt, put a new shell in, and close the action back up. Anyway, we were in a Seniors tournament, and I was in the last group, and we were behind by a few points. After sighting in, I 'pinned' all ten targets dead center of the x-rings. Took the tourney by 2 points.

Second best was with my 30/30 Marlin (scoped) at 200 yards, sitting "Indian" style. Told my buddy I could make any shot that he could with his .308 on a bench. We started with milk jugs, and worked to progressively smaller targets. By the time we got to bottle caps, we were dead even. He missed, I didn't. It was more luck than skill, but still, a 30/30 at 200 yards, sitting crossed legged, made for a hell of shot!

[IntenseImage]

5 headshots at once, through smoke ... but that was in Call of Duty

[libra8]

When I was a teenager I had a Crossman 760. From about 10 feet I put a BB in the back of a .22 pellet that had previously been shot into the barn siding. I thought it was luck until I did it a second time. Open sights. I miss the air gun.

[ar15jules]

Okay, in the spirit of continuing the "best of" discussions...what is the best shot you ever made? Here is your chance to brag a little, BUT it has to be true. ; )

This one is up there for me. I took down a whitetail that was running full speed, broadside, at about 40 yards. I got off three shots with a bolt action and put it down on the third shot.

The next year, I put one down that was running straight away from be at about 50 yards. One shot right through the tail.

Both time I was using a Remington 700 ADL .270 with a Bushnell 3-9x40 scope.

How about you?

The Texas Heart Shot, or up the butt, is a stupid shot.....not a good one. Yeah, I am being "that guy". I am tired of finding deer dead in the woods from people trying to make their "best shots".
Jules