Longest revolver shot U ever made

Evil Dog said:
On the TV series "Highway Patrol" Broderick Crawford would drop bad guys at 200 yards with a single hip shot from his snub nose revolver.
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That's even better than the "French Connection" when Gene Hackman shot the bad guy on a boat about that far away but he had to aim.
 
At the Marion Cty F&G range in Indy, they have a 12" steel plate set up on the 100 yard backstop. My buddy and I for s&g's would shoot a cylinder or 2 out of our 2" M-37 and M-437Airweight .38 snubbies at it at the end of our shooting day.

Once we got used to it, we would usually hit 2 or 3 out of a 5 shot cylinder. Sometimes we got all 5 but it was rare.M
We took a friend out who my buddy had just sold a 586 4" to. He hadn't had much if any experience with revolvers, so we let him practice with our K-22's before going centerfire. When he was competent and safe enough to leave alone, we left him and walked down to the line position in front of the 100 yard plate.

My buddy and I used a box of my .38 Spl 158 gr LSWC medium velocity loads and were killing time shooting the snubs at the 100 yd plate.

Of course that's the day we were both hot and sent 3 cylinders each down range without missing. We turned around and noticed we had 4 or 5 people watching us. I said "I've had my practice for the day, how about you?" to my buddy and he picked up on it and agreed. We holstered our snubs and went back to teach our friend how to shoot .38's and .357's out of his 586. He listened a lot better then
 
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I was working on an oil rig in the badlands of N Dakota in my 30s and we would work 2 weeks of 12 hr days and lived in a man camp. The last week was from 6pm to 6am and I and another guy on the crew has 22 handguns. In the afternoons before our night shift we would go shooting. I had my model 18 with a 4" barrel and he had a Ruger semi auto. We would walk around shooting at various ranges and soon the area we shot in had lots of little nylon boxes that the shells came in scattered around and we shot at those a lot too. Really sharpened my revolver shooting. Then one day from a small hill top and across a dirt road there was a duck in the center of a small pond about 300 hundred yards or so away. I said watch and holding with the barrel centered in the rear sight a bit down from the front sight I fired and missed. Then fired again and amazingly hit the duck and it flopped around in the pond. I never shot at something I did really want to kill again even if it seamed impossible to hit.
 
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2 minutes and 43 seconds.

Dang slow burning powder, thought it never would quit that smoking then it took two minutes for the JGSPWC .98lb to clear the barrel and finally get to the elephant.

No kill, just scared it a bit....missed.
 
You guys should read Elmer Keith's stories, when he was making the 44 spec into the 44 mag. Amazing man and amazing shot with a pistol. And he didn't live far from where I was raised.
 
when younger I used to hunt squirrels and do head shots only even if they were running. A few weeks ago a large snake was trying to get in our RV. I'm not afraid of snakes but my wife is sort of slightly. If one gets close she can walk on clouds. This fellow quickly slithered off and stopped at about 25 yards. Off hand I drew a bead on him, 1st shot hit slightly right. 2nd shot knocked up dust slightly left. 3rd shot was thru the brain.

My wife felt better.
 
Once I was at the range shooting a bunch of revolvers. Next to the handgun range there was a 100 yard rifle range. Two young guys were shooting a .22 scoped rifle off the bench at a 2 liter bottle, 100 yards away. When I was done I watched them for a while. Asked if I could take a few shots. They said sure. Got my M18-3 out and loaded 6 rounds. For those not up on S&W revolvers that is a K-Frame 4" barreled .22 Long Rifle with adjustable sights. Told the guys to spot for me. I figured at that range there would be bullet drop so I held high. They said I hit right above it. Held right on the bottle, and nailed it several more times.:cool:
These guys were impressed.
Actually I was too. I wasn't expecting much at that range, but that .22 Combat Masterpiece is accurate!
Jim
 
trapper704 said:
You guys should read Elmer Keith's stories, when he was making the 44 spec into the 44 mag. Amazing man and amazing shot with a pistol. And he didn't live far from where I was raised.
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I would strongly suspect that most of us have read Elmer Keith. If you're into S&W revolvers, and ever thought about shooting them at long range, how could you not?

Tim
 
You see all them new holes in the moon?? Well...


Seriously, like Keith44, shooting the IHMSA rams at two hundred meters with my six inch .357 DW. The pre 27 will hit a 25lb propane tank at 125 yards standing if I do my part.

DW
 
cmort666 said:
200 yards at the Alliance Rifle Club range in Malvern, Ohio.

I had read about pre-WWII long range revolver shooting at a club in Louisville, KY, so when a friend was moving to Seattle, so we had a farewell revolver shoot.

We put some full sized man targets on the target frames and shot at them with a 6" K-38, a 6" Model 14, and a 6" M&P respectively.

I had done this kind of shooting in college with my Series 70 Colt, and was able to easily hit an oil drum on a sand spit in front of a pond in some clay pits. I estimate that the range was somewhere around one hundred fifty yards. I was using VERY mild bullseye handloads with 200gr. LSWCs, and either Unique or Bullseye. It couldn't have been much more than 3.8gr. of Bullseye. I shot from the recumbent position.

Shooting the Model 14 20+ years later, I was using Winchester White Box 140gr. .38 Special FMJs, which are about equivalent to .38 Long Colt. I tried to find 158gr. LRN, but couldn't find any ANYWHERE here in time for the trip.

Once I found the range and a consistent aiming point, I was able to keep most of my shots on the paper.
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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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No brag, just fact, said Walter Brennan of Will Sonnett's prowess with a weapon
 
Hey guys, I've been lurking on this forum for quite a while and this thread made me want to join as I'm still in shock I made this shot and it was probably 8 to 10 years ago...

A buddy and I took a group of about 8 brand new and novice shooters out for a day of fun. We paced out 50 and 100 yards and put up targets ranging from your standard clay pigeons, soda cans, gatorade bottles and a few paper targets. I really didn't plan on shooting much if at all, I just wanted to keep an eye on the new guys. Once everyone was set up on tables and such it sounded like a war zone with everything from bolt actions to ARs and AKs going off. Not a single bottle, can or pigeon went down. So I pulled my 4" 686 loaded with probably WWB 158 grain rounds out of my holster and took a shot at a clay on the far left @ the roughly 100 yard mark. 1st shot low, 2nd shot just a hair high, then with 3,4,5 and 6 I nailed 4 clays in a row. Everyone stopped shooting and just stared at me for a few minutes. I smiled, holstered my 686 and told everyone it was time to go home.

After that I just kicked back, ate a sandwich and helped the new guys out. I knew there was no way in hell I'd be able to do that again.
 
I was shooting revolvers with some LEO friends a few years ago and one brought out a Freedom Arms revolver in the then new .454 and we all had to try it. He set up a can of beer at 100 yards and several tried and missed remarking on the recoil. I nailed the can on my second shot and knew enough to quit while I was ahead as it was a lucky shot.
For the record no beer was consumed until the guns were put away.

Longest game was 75 yards with my Ruger Super Blackhawk on a young buck. I don't shoot that far now due to age and eyesight.
 
About 25 years ago I could hit empty .22LR 50 round boxes at 100 yards routinely with my Colt Gold Cup .45ACP. Not anymore though, Sigh!
 
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