Luckiest/most impossible shot you ever made/saw

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Best shot I ever made was on a jack rabbit. Running sideways to me at about 150 yrds. I quick drew my Ruger Single Six .22, shot from the hip and he rolled head over heals to a stop. Second best is I once got 7 snow geese with one shot. Was about 14. Crawled down a ditch until I was about 30 yrds from the flock. Put my Wards single shot 16 ga. Through the weeds along a fence, pulled the hammer back and aimed for a bird at the back of the flock. The click of the hammer caused every bird in the flock to raise his head and look at me. As the pattern of the shot dropped on it’s was to that last bird, it took out the seven birds.



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Richard

The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
 
Okay so it's not a gun story...

Remember the scene from Karate Kid where he snags a fly in his chopsticks? Well, I was at a chinese restaurant, and this fly was buzzing over our table. I got cocky and went at it with the chopsticks. I GOT IT!! My date's eyes grew 3 sizes larger. I was more amazed than she was.

I immediately asked for a new pair of chopsticks.
 
One of the better shots I've made was at 30 yards. One shot from my Glock 23 to 20 oz Sprite bottle.

I regularly see Spartacus fire touching rounds, offhand, out to 25 yards. Often this is from sidearms...He claims he shot...well, I'll let him tell it!
 
My buddy & I were deep in the piney woods of central Oregon (about 20 years ago). We were plinking with my 10/22 (iron sights at the time). We see a crow, about 100 yds away, up in a tree at least 60 feet high.

By buddy says he can hit that crow. I say he can't. Well, he takes aim and fires (off hand), and the crow falls from the tree, dead as a post. But that's not the best part. When we examined the crow, that shot went through its EYE, at 100 yds, and 60 feet off the ground.

My friend is a better than average shot, but he ain't THAT good. He STILL razzes me about it to this day...
 
I saw a guy on TV, he had a 6-shooter in a western rig, he threw a card in the air, drew and shot it in half from the side. I was pretty amazed until they showed him throwing almost a whole deck in the air and shoot at them until he finally got one. I'm not saying I could do it but it sure took him a lot of shots. You would have to get lucky and do it eventually.
 
My best is a whole through both o's on a coke can @ 75 yards. Quite unintentionally. Best I ever saw, my best friend and I, "Back in high-school" (there it is again), were doing a walk in the woods and shoot anything hunt. A crow spooked about 35 yards away and from the hip he shot it out of mid flight with a Marlin .22! This is the same guy who missed 7 out of 10 rounds at a 2 litre soda bottle that same day from 25 yards!

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I thought I'd seen it all, until a 22WMR spun a bunny 2 1/4 times in the air!
 
My first lucky shot was when I was about 12, out squirrel hunting. I was using a Fox Sterlingworth 20 ga. SxS, and as we were walking through a clearing, I happened to catch a glimpse of a bird flying over. I just raised the shotgun to vertical in my right hand and fired. I spun around and looked at the ground just as a yellowhammer (a type of lark?) hit, dead as a doornail.

My second was while out shooting. Some fellows I knew stopped to watch, and were commenting that it couldn't be too easy to hit with a revovler. I was using a Smith 25-5 in .45 Colt, and noticed a sparrow light on a power line. I sat down with my back against the front wheel of their car, and took aim at his head from about 30 yards or so. I called the first shot high, and then fired again. I was as surprised as anyone when the bird "helicoptered" down off the wire. (This particular 25-5 was one of a batch that had overbored fronts on the chambers, and wasn't very accurate.) I made out pretty good, though, because I controlled my urge to jump up and down and scream. Instead, I s-a-u-n-t-e-r-e-d over and casually looked at the headless bird, tossed it to one of my buddies, and said, "Got that one right where I wanted. Now what were you saying?"
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Does this count ??

many years ago, a friend of mine was just so very proud of his new .222 bolt gun.... "I can hit anything and do the most amazing things with this"...

well..... I called him out and asked him if he could break TWO coke bottles (remember those??) with ONE shot.... "No, and neither can you"

distance of 150 Ft., two coke bottles 2 inches from one another....

pulled out my 1903a1 Springfield 30-06 and busted both of them by shooting inbetween them


His Air-Force daddy Col. had never told him about the shock wave of that caliber of bullet.....

I never told him either....
 
375yds

30mph sustained winds

.308 remington varmit in a Choate tactical stock, with some cheap Simmons glass.

168 gr Sierra match hp in front of 46gr of varget and a Federal Match primer.

One lone 20oz coke bottle filled with water.

1shot struck dead center and and the second round nicked the edge of the bottle.

Luck or skill? I shoot on average of 5rds of rifle ammo a day.

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2nd luckiest running skunk at 55yds with a ruger blackhawk in .357 one shot.

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Both made with witnesses, both still marveled at by the witnesses and me.
 
Back in '78 after geting out of the AF, I'd went on a cross-country(18 wheeler) run with my older brother. We shut down for the day in Wheeling, WV, at a large truck stop.

When all of a sudden, I see this girl running across the gravel road, and dodge between some trucks. A few seconds later, here come Roscoe slippin and slidin', lights a flshin', in his cruiser, trying to find this girl.. But she got away from him, that time.


Aww, I couldn't help it. I had to throw this one in.
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Besides, there a whole lot more to this story, that I can't tell...

Best Regards,
Don

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Most of you guys scare the hell out of me. I don't want to be anywhere in range of you, what with your casual shooting at anything that moves. I try to make damn sure of what's downrange of my rounds, even when I am at my own site with nothing but woods and high ground beyond....
 
A friend of mine knocked a cardinal off a low branch from 30 yds with one of those crossman 1911 type airguns that shoots both darts and bb. We literally watched the bb arc and hit the bird.

Before I owned my first rifle or shotgun I had a lever action pellet gun I took everywhere. One day my dad and my uncles were shooting clay pigeons and I wanted to try. Shattered the first one and missed the next two... Should have quit while I was ahead.

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Last year, while re-sighting my SKS, the first shot hit DEAD CENTER of a bullseye at 110 yds using one of those crappy Eurolux 4X scopes and Russian surplus hollowpoints. The bare naked eye was better than that thing. I tried 19 more times, couldn't do it again. My bud, who was looking though binoculars, saw my first shot and made me quit. he said "you gotta see this" and handed me the binoculars. I couldn't believe it.

Recently I took a pot shot at a crow with a Kel-Tec P32 at about 25yds+ and hit it. Pure luck.

The luckiest shots, though, have to be when I shoot at birds every evening with my Crosman Outbacker BB gun. It's a one-pump job, and has no sights! It came with a crappy little scope that was really a plastic hollow tube with and adjustable crosshair screwed to the rear hole. That thing is long gone, and now you have to line down the barrel like a shotgun. It's so low powered, that you can see the BB when you shoot. Nonetheless, I've been making some pretty long shots (50-60yds+) on pigeons, blackbirds, and blue jays. Watching the BB fly though the air, arc down and plug the bird is a hoot. It's really a form of mock artillery.




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I was at the range witha friend. We were discussing how necessary sights really were. I took my time, aimed, and placed a round at 15 feet right on the X. He then said something like, "Well, yea, if you take your time and aimed..." So I took aim, then looked back toward him, and fired. The hole was about an inch off to the side of the first one! The look on his face was priceless! (I figured I used up all of my "lotto luck" right there on the spot.)

Erik

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I killed my first deer running with a heart shot at over 500 yards(checked with a pickup odometer). I was using a 1903 Springfield with iron sights and the deer was hit through the heart. Now for the rest of the story. I first started shooting at him when he was less than 100 yards away and it was only after numerous rounds that I finally dropped him. Surely not the finest show of sportsmanship that I have ever displayed (I had no business shooting at him at that range) but it was still an interesting shot.
 
Best shot I ever saw: the old man (God rest his bones) made a snap shot at a dove sitting on a telephone pole at about 75 yards. The weapon was a single-shot Martini-Henry .357 magnum. He used .38s to save money, though.

My best shots: off-handed, shot a styrofoam coffee cup with a .58 rifled musket at 50 yards, finally, and later blew out a candle at night with the same weapon. Smoke poles really need to be cleaned after every shot for the best accuracy.
 
walking in the boonies, hand-tripped boobytrap, attack came from over a small hill, fired a three round burst from an M-16, fired from the hip, took out my man(an officer), and after the firefight was over, I "souvenired" his weapon. (A Herstel Belgique 9mm)

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Hmmm. Spectre must be referring to the time I took a Marlin 335C lever action in .35 Remington with a 4X Weaver scope and hit a red thumbtack at 150 yards with one (and only one) shot from the prone position. Back then my eyesight was better than 20/10 also.

In high school, I would go camping and hunting during the fall and winter with no food and three shells. One Saturday at dusk I was walking down a field road getting used to the idea of no supper tonight when a squirrel ran up an oak to my left. As I swiveled to bear on the squirrel, I saw a rabbit begin to run down the soybean rows to my rear out of the corner of my eye. I shot the squirrel and pivoted 180 degrees to shoot the rabbit. Halfway through the pivot, a dove streaked overhead. I shot the rabbit and continued my pivot another 90 degrees and shot the dove. Three shots with no perceptible interval through an arc of 270 degrees- bagged the squirrel, the rabbit, and the dove. I ate well that night.

Byron Quick

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I'd have to say, listening to some of these stories I agree with tombread. Shooting targets willy-nilly with rifle or pistol without a proper backstop is not safe.

I've shot airborne targets with a rifle, as recounted in my story, but I was above the target's flight path shooting down into the ground.

I don't mean to preach, and this isn't a flame, but lets be safe out there. One misplaced bullet could cause reverberations that could affect ALL gunowners.

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