What is your best hunting/sporting shot and with what weapon?

Question

im only 17 been hunting only 5 years but my best so far was my deer this fall at 200 yards through the eye. Not quite on purpose hitting it in the eye but it worked shot it with my 1957 standard winchester model 70 in 270win hand loaded 110 grain bullets

Answer 1

My best shot story doesn't involve hunting. A local outdoor range here has 200 yard steel plates, it got to the point where hitting the steel plates at 200 yards with a 22 rifle was just too easy, so me and a friend of mine shoot leaves off the dirt bank behind the steel plates with out 22's. Try shooting a leaf with a 22 rifle from 200 yards away, it aint easy.

Answer 2

when i was 19, I shot a mule deer 570 yards away with my savage 110 E 30-06 in central texas (hill country). I aimed a little high and to the left for wind and the bullet dropped right behind his shoulder. He fell right on his face instantly. I was using 180grn Federal Premium Vital Shock with the Barnes Triple shock x bullet.

Answer 3

When I was a much younger man I owned a Hi Standard, Double Nine, Buntline revolver. It was a .22 cal. with a 9 1/2 inch barrel. It was such an ungainly gun I couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with it, but it was a fun gun.

One day my two buddies and I went prairie dog hunting at a local ranch with our varmint rifles. After a couple hours of shooting we had made a pretty serious dent in the local population. Suddenly, one dog popped out of his hole about 75 yards in front of us. One of my buddies told me to take a shot with my Buntline. Both knew how bad a shot I was with it but I picked up the gun from the shooting table and, holding it at the hip, shot in the general direction of the dog. He fell over dead. . ., there was a stunned silence. I recovered first; calmly put the gun back down and told my buddies, "I've been practicing some." Of course, there was an immediate challenge to repeat the feat. But I demurred, saying I did not want to make them look any more foolish.

Some times, just absolute dumb luck rules. . .

Answer 4

When I was 15 I shot a sparrow in one eye and out the other with a Russian made .177 breech brake single shot pellet rifle from about 15 yards. That was the most accurate pellet rifle I ever fired.
Not as cool as your story but still true.

Answer 5

i have a hunting lease in paducah, tx the ranch i hunt is 125,000 acres. you dont usually get close to deer there becuse they are not very people friendly. I shot a 467lb hog in the neck with my .300rem ultra mag it has a swarovski 6-24x scope with bullet drop compensation reticle @ 780 yards. i couldnt shoot him in the eye but i thought that was a hell of a shot.

Answer 6

I shot a 8pt with my martin mag bow at 12 yrds. By far the best hunting experience of my life, i out smarted the smartest animal in the woods and got it within bow range.

Answer 7

I shot an Iraqui Insurgent who was planting an IED in Ramadi through in the neck at 986 yards, at night, using an M40 rifle chambered in 7.62 (.308)

I win.

Answer 8

Rabbit shooting,1993ish on Taramakau River (NZ) walking back to ute after fruitless afternoon.Dean says "Hey mike,bet ya cant get that seagull".Shot taken with .22 Brno at 50 yards on flying gull with 5 yards lead hits dead on! Never tried it again,didnt need to,had a witness!

Answer 9

sorry but if you didn't mean to shot it in the eye then it was not a good shot. yes you made the kill but where where you really aimed, if you were aimed at the kilzone (lungs, heart...) then you made a terrible shot

my best was a 130 class 8pt whitetail about 200 yards on the run, hit him in the heart with a 25-06 remington rifle. shot him like a skeet target, pulled throught to an estimated lead which was perfect

another good one was 3 long beards (eastern turkey) with one shot with my remington super mag using 3 1/2" remington heavy shot

for duck we were hunting a creek one day when a drake mallord flew over and normally no one would have taken the shot as he was way up there, but with a slow day i took the shot, going off some long targets at clays i estimated a lead and nailed him, ok i know this was actaully more luck than anything but i did pick a good enough lead to get him

Answer 10

Growing up we used to shoot groundhogs on the farm. I remember taking about a 100 yard shot with my Ruger 10/22 at one that was standing up on the mound by the hole. I thought it was a clean miss and was about to shoot again when it just keeled over like a stone. When I checked - right between the eyes. Just took a minute for it to figure out it was already dead.