The Best Shot You Ever Made

One of them...end of this season.

On the wing snow fallin'..

Mid 1700's French Fusil de Chasse flintllock.

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A long time ago I hit a party balloon with my Browning High Power at 150 yards on a police range in Valdez, Alaska. We were taking turns firing standing two handed. I went first and hit the balloon on the first shot. I holstered the gun and declared myself the winner and I bet I couldn't do that shot shot again if my life depended on it.
 
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Swallows over a small pond on the farm. They fly low to the water, scoop up a beak full and are off like a shot. I had a scope-sighted 10-22 and a friend who dared me to hit one.

To his astonishment, I hit two in a row. Not my skill but the worst possible luck for the two swallows. :)
 
I was hunting elk on Afognak Island, near Kodiak. Stayed in a little forest service cabin. Rain and fog kept me in the cabin for days reading and re-reading old magazines some past tenent left there.

Then one damp foggy afternoon I spotted a nice 6 X 6, about 150 yards from the cabin door down by the beach.

I took two shots, but by the time I got the cap back on the bottle he was gone.
 
My "absolute" best shots, were ten shots, off the bench in a 6mm bench rest rifle of unknown caliber, just handed to me by a friend.......ten shot, at 100 yds, that could be covered by a dime.
 
Way back in the 1980s I was on my club range and some "large NE Ohio City LEOs" had their new S&W 9mms. They were trying to figure out pin shooting. I offered my assistance, showed them the steel plate, the marks for the pins, how to rest the pistol on the fence rail and how to shoot.
I went 5-4-5! Something I had only occasionally done in real competition.
I then pointed out the 9mm 9-pin marks near the back of the plate, and they proceeded to expend large quantities of taxpayer ammo, they had 2K rounds with them!
I told some wise-*** up at the Club barn about it and he later sent his cute little daughter down with her .22 Ruger. She was a competitive shooter. Went 9-4-9 with a Ruger target pistol.
Geoff
Who notes he needs more practice as he gets older...new club has evening hours this week...my posties may be limited.
 
laying on my back asleep in the duck boat on Ted Turners dyke. Heard the wings of a low flying duck, sprang up and dropped it on the dyke, my cousin woke up in time to see it fall, man we laughed about that. I once killed a deer at 400 yards, probably wounldn't try it again, but I do hand load and spend a lot of time with my rifle. That afternoon it was wide open on a plantation without much wind.
 
Gotta say at an indoor range with my 1950's K22, 25 yards, 6 shots ALL double action with a very small group to the point where they were all nearly in one hole, and they were my first 6 shots for the day too!

I saved the target but I cant find it right now

and about 3 years before that I couldnt even hit the broadside of a barn firing double action and to top it off that it was on the same range where I let a cop fire my gun, the same K22 6 months earlier and he couldnt hit anything with it saying it was a very hard gun to shoot and he was shooting a glock 17 too.
 
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Several years ago I put myself through a reserve peace officer training class. The instructor for the firearms portion was a former Marine and, if I remember correctly, was a Korean War veteran. After everybody was done firing the final qualification test, the instructor checked everybody's target. He looked at mine, circled the grouping, and said, "Good enough for the Marines." Mine was the only one he said that about. Needless to say, it made me feel really good about my shooting that day.
 
Back in the mid 50's I was 12 years old on my first deer hunting trip in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. I was with my father and his friend. The friend had a 308 Remington (with scope) and set up a beer can at 200 yards. Firing off-hand, both my father and the friend fired several times, cleanly missing. I asked to try and they said if I hit it I could hunt on my own. Nailed it on the first try. The most important aspect of this shot was the fact that afterwards I had the confidence to try any firearm and went on to shoot many different types of weapons.
 
About 30 years ago, when I was still in school at OIT, we had a fall turkey shoot up in the canyon behind the school. All I had at the time was a pre-64 Winchester mod. 94, 30-30 with the open buckhorn sights. 4 or 5 of us started at 25 yds, each took a shot at the gong & then those of us who scored a hit moved back another 25 yds. I lasted out to 225 yards along with one other fellow shooting with a scoped bolt action. He missed, I didn't & I took the turkey home that day.

John
 
A New hampshire woodchuck in a horse pasture, about 30 years ago now. I was sitting in the back of a pickup, and using a Remington bolt action 30-06 with a 4X Weaver on it, the 'chuck was a tiny speck through the scope. The crosshair completely covered him, it was that small/far away. I held about a 'chuck's length above him and let her rip, and the faint "whap" a few moments later let us know I hit him dead center. It about vaporized his head, leaving only a rag of scalp and no skull at all left. We paced it off very carefully, twice, and came to 420 yards away. It was more luck than anything.
Shot a few dragonflies in half in my younger days with a Ruger standard auto. Those too, were luck.
Another NH woodchuck, 6 inch Colt .357, rested off a picnic table, 125 yards.
That about covers it. All these events occured years ago, I can't hardly see a woodchuck much past 125 yards these days.
 
The best shot you ever made

When I was about 16 was duck hunting with my dad when three ducks came out of nowhere and buzzed the decoys on my side. Killed all three with two shots from my Sears bolt-action 12 Ga. Dad said both shots sounded almost like one and at first he thought my gun had blown up. He asked how I managed to work the action so fast. I told him I didn't know, it just happened. Was never able to duplicate it.

Years later managed to shoot a clean target (240-24X) in Match 1 of the 1978 Police PPC National Match. Was thrilled when informed that I had equalled the record for that stage. Then I discovered that over 100 shooters already shared the record. Oh, Well.
 
With a sling shot when I was about 12, hit a dove on the ground, about 50 yds away with a stone. Several friends with me, they were impressed, I couldn't do it again in a hundred years.
Steve W.
 
I was sitting in a deer stand and it sort of foggy. I just happened to glance over my shoulder to the rear and there stood a buck maybe 5 yards away. I think it was just curious but it was eyeballing the stand pretty good. Without turning back I grabbed my rifle from the opposite corner, slipped it thru the opening and shot it all in one smooth motion. What surprised me is when my friends showed up and asked how I could tell it was a buck. Oh, we were in a buck only shooting area, and the deer was a Spike. It actually had one spike about 5 inches tall. My friends were confused, after all it was foggy and the spike was real narrow. I just told them the truth, "the sun bounceoff of the antler". Just seemed like God was giving me a chance that day. The buck weighed 85 lbs field dressed. I have shot and mounted many a big deer since, but I always wished I would of kept my unicorn deer to mount.
 
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