Longest revolver shot U ever made

5 shots at 100 yards from a bag, single action, Federal American Eagle red box .357 Magnum.
The gun is a 1955 5 inch .357 Magnum


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Offhand shooting at 12oz soda cans at 100yds with my 3" model 65 is a hoot. Actually hit one every once in a while.
 
Nearly 40 years ago I was shooting with a buddy, he had often talked about his Ruger Superblackhawk and his claimed accuracy with it. I was shooting a Ruger Superblackhawk in .44 magnum with that big 7.25" barrel, it was as accurate as any handgun I had ever shot, especially with 240 gr. wadcutters in .44 Spcl. His Ruger was chambered in .30 carbine and he claimed that if he could see it, he could hit it. The day we were shooting we were in an old abandanded gravel pit. There were targets set up all over the place and an easy 100 yd range with plenty of backstop. He took a dozen or so beat up bowling pins and we hauled them down to the limits of the range which was pretty close to 150 yards. He said we would save those for after got warmed up a bit. We'd also brought some plastic milk jugs full of water, plastic pop bottles, the usual pistol stuff. After I thought I was warmed up I tried to hit those bowling pins and once I got the range I managed to knock a couple of them over. He said "This is where this .30 carbine really shines." He sat down and put the pistol between his knees and proceeded to knock the remaining pins down, rarely missing a shot. I was really impressed and ran down to reset the pins came back and gave it a try on my own. It was not my pistol but I still managed to hit three out of six and was pretty happy with myself. He said the .30 carbine doesn't have the knockdown of the big .44 but clearly makes up for it with its inherent accuracy potential. I agreed that for long range shooting it was the best pistol I had ever seen.
A couple of months later a few of us were grabbing a smoke out in front of the building we worked at, one of the guys said "What do you think your odds would be of hitting the traffic light on Monroe from here?" It was a full two city blocks from where we were and my .30 carbine buddy asked "How many shots?" The guy said "How many do you need?" My buddy said "I'd bet five bucks I could hit the colored light of your choice in three shots." I told the other guy "Lets make it ten bucks as long as Mike is doing the shooting." There was a lot of laughing and backslapping but Mike said "I'm dead serious, you can take a bowling pin out to 150 yards and give me three shots and I can hit it." I backed him up by saying "I've watched him do it, I'll back his bet." Nobody took him up on it...
I've seen very competent, seriously practiced guys with 1911 Gold Cups shoot very good targets at 100 yards, knocking bowling pins over, etc. But just your average guy with an average pistol and cartridge I thought wasn't much good for anything except being very loud that was the best long range shooting I ever saw.
 
Buddy and I had been shooting for a while, 25 and 50 yd targets. I was on a roll with my model 67, probably shooting 148gr wadcutters. We were getting ready to pack up and I said"bet I can hit that can on the 100 yd berm. Yeah..go ahead"..bang and I wacked it. Do again he said...bang, wacked it again. That was 40 years ago.

To this day he still says it was a lucky shot. May have been but it still makes me smile and the fact that he still remembers is always worth a smile! :)
 
billwill said:
Buddy and I had been shooting for a while, 25 and 50 yd targets. I was on a roll with my model 67, probably shooting 148gr wadcutters. We were getting ready to pack up and I said"bet I can hit that can on the 100 yd berm. Yeah..go ahead"..bang and I wacked it. Do again he said...bang, wacked it again. That was 40 years ago.

To this day he still says it was a lucky shot. May have been but it still makes me smile and the fact that he still remembers is always worth a smile! :)
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Tell him "Not luck but skill" if you hit it twice.
 
Not so much long range as consistency. I once hit an eight inch plate six times in a row at 100 yards. Used a six inch 17-3. Never again since. Standing two hand hold.
 
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RonJ said:
Not so much long range as consistency. I once hit an eight inch plate six times in a row at 100 yards. Used a six inch 17-3. Never again since. Standing two hand hold.
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You were in the "zone" that day


Dwight
USAFSS 1962/1966
 
Longest shot w/ a revolver? In the summer of 1983 my brother and I went outside of town to a area where soil had been excavated for road construction. The result was a very long deep hole, wonderful place for shooting anything and everything. When we arrived several men were shooting w/ scoped rifles at a large brown beer bottle which was on a board all the way down at the other end of the hole... most certainly over 100 yds. away. I had a six inch 28-2 that I'd been shooting hot and heavy since 1980. I was carrying it in a Bianchi 10L holster. It was like an extension of my hand. They weren't hitting the bottle. I asked if they were shooting at the bottle and on of the fellows responded that of course they were shooting at the bottle but that it must be bullet proof. My brother was going to shoot his rifle but I had only my revolver. I told them it didn't seem that far away. The response was to the effect that it was further than I might think. I said I'd like to try to hit it and they said go ahead. On a impulse, I pulled the revolver from the holster and just popped off a round one handed quick. I was shocked when the bottle broke. They were shocked to. My brother said something crude and unmentionable. And I, I just put my revolver back in the holster and kept my mouth shut. But by the middle of the next week word had gotten around that the new preacher in that small town could shoot a handgun. It is a sure and certain thing that if I'd had to repeat that shot, I would have missed.
 
When I was 10 years old I killed a chipmunk offhand with my dad's .22 H&R revolver at 25 yards.When I got old my 629 classic will put 15 or 18 out of 20 on steel plates at 150 yards.Longest on a deer was 50 yards with the same 629 classic.That 629 is a hell of a shootin' machine,wish I was.
 
I can't shoot anything over 100 yards around here.....

Even the rifle range in the National forest is only 100 yards unless you have private property. I'm not a great shooter. I don't think I've ever hit anything at 100 yards with a revolver. Only 'around' it. My son did hit a target at 100 yds with my 686, once. My best shot was a draw, whirl and shoot with a snub on Woodsy Owl in a tree at not too distant range. (I found a plastic Woodsy figure in the woods and put it in the tree) Knocked his *** right out of that tree and flipped end over end till it hit the ground. I bragged to my wife that I shot Woodsy Owl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodsy_Owl

I'm not counting the time I made a long range shot with a bb gun at a bird I knew I couldn't hit and when it fell I about croaked. I don't like to think about that. :(

PS: I'm not sure why this made me think of it, but here are some great scenes from a great western

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azObvdpCTWs
 
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rwsmith said:
Even the rifle range in the National forest is only 100 yards unless you have private property. I'm not a great shooter. I don't think I've ever hit anything at 100 yards with a revolver. Only 'around' it. My son did hit a target at 100 yds with my 686, once. My best shot was a draw, whirl and shoot with a snub on Woodsy Owl in a tree at not too distant range. (I found a plastic Woodsy figure in the woods and put it in the tree) Knocked his *** right out of that tree and flipped end over end till it hit the ground. I bragged to my wife that I shot Woodsy Owl.

Woodsy Owl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm not counting the time I made a long range shot with a bb gun at a bird I knew I couldn't hit and when it fell I about croaked. I don't like to think about that. :(

PS: I'm not sure why this made me think of it, but here are some great scenes from a great western

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azObvdpCTWs
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I remember doing that, I was probably 10 years old, and had one of those lever action Daisy BB guns that always shot high right, high left or something.
Must have been about 60 yards away and aimed way above this hapless meadowlark perched on a weed.
I saw the bb arc over and down in his direction, but was amazed to see him crumple at my lucky shot.
Think I got him in the eye, if memory serves. :)
 
Disclaimer up front. I'm coming up on 71 now and the eyes and the arm strength just isn't what it used to be but I was an Army Officer on active duty 30 + years ago. I hung out in my local gun shop a lot, and I got tired of hearing the local "experts" expounding on how the .45 auto was no good, inaccurate, blah, blah , blah etc. So, I devised a plan to shut up the dumb butts. I told any and all "mouths" that if they would buy a box of .45 hardball, I would take them out to the range and let them set a gallon milk jug at what they thought was 100 yards. I would shoot at that jug with a plain stock military .45. Everytime I hit that jug you pay me a quarter and every time I miss I'll pay you a quarter. Now, the secret is to line up the sights vertically and raise the front of the pistol 'til the rear sight is in the front cut of the ejection port down to the top of the barrel chamber.[A very light and unnoticeable line in the ejection port doesn't hurt either!] I never lost any money and shot a heck of a lot of free ammo. It is not magic any average pistol shot can do this easily. Nick
 
110 yards with a 4" 1905 H/E 38 special. Bought the gun unfired (it was about 85 years old at the time), took aim (off hand) and on the very first shot I hit the 4" clay Pigeon I was aiming at on the burm. I had to guess the hold over and I was using 158 grain hand loads that were around 750 fps out of that gun. I suppose some of it was pure luck........ The two friends that saw me do this were almost as amazed as I was :cool:
 
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