what is the most spectacular shot you have ever made/witnessed?

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Yesterday at my range I saw a guy hit a 6" silhouette target at 200 yards with a compact .40 cal XD. First shot too. I almost shat myself in disbelief LOL. He was unable to repeat this feat, but I still left the range with my jaw dropped only to have a buddy of mine call BS when I told him about it.


what is the most spectacular shot you have ever witnessed?

what is the most spectacular shot you have ever made?

My greatest shot was hitting a clay pigeon with a Ruger mark3 pistol from about 40-50 yards away after one of my buddies missed it twice with his over under.
 
Whenever I go shooting with my buddies, we always end up betting on who can make a certain very difficult shot. Last time we went out to the desert, we set up a 16oz water bottle at 100m and we each took a shot at it standing unsupported. I was the last to go, so I saw where everyone else hit. I managed to nail it with my G23. It was a very lucky shot. I see people with target pistols that shoot better than that all day long though.
 
My best shot was a total fluke. I was shooting at a squirrel in the top of a tree with a Marlin 39A and the squirrel was heading up the limb. I had my crosshair right on his head. Just as I fired I saw in the scope that a second squirrel had came down the limb and just as the shot broke both heads were lined up. The bullet went through the heads of both squirrels and they hit the ground about a foot apart. I had a couple of buddies that saw it happen.
 
I was shooting groundhogs (woodchucks) out in the field with my Marlin Model 25 .22lr rifle/Bushnell scope. I usually keep my shots on hogs with the .22 less than 80 yards, since it is not always effective with a center mass shot much farther than that. I saw one stand up out of it's hole, ranged it at 150 yards. The first 3 shots I took on it were low, but the thing kept standing up despite the dust I kicked up. The 4th shot I took dropped him instantly. When I checked him out, it turns out I hit him right in the ear, instant death. I doubt I will ever be that lucky again.
I have witnessed my buddy who is a Marine Corps Iraq veteran sniper/State Police sniper make a kill on a groundhog with a .308 at 300 yards, but I guess that's really not spectacular when you're a sniper, but I thought it was pretty cool.
 
best?

Surprised by a pheasant in the field while hunting with my 20 ga I had to arch my back and turn 180 degrees and fire at the same time.
Had pheasant for dinner that evening.:)
 
Ten rounds out of my Colt AR, using personally done hand loads.

Sitting on side of picnic table, . . . elbows on the table, . . . no sled, just my hands.

At the 100 yard range, using an inexpensive dual reticle, 6 power scope, mounted on the handle.

Covered em with a quarter, . . . 10 X's.

Yeah, . . . only did it once.

May God bless,
Dwight
 
I shot a swimming muskrat at 75 yards off hand, open sights with my 7.65 Mauser--my brother couldn't believe it, ha, nor could I:)
 
I was 16, shooting with my father and a friend of his. Dad's buddy sticks a burning cigarette on a fence post, probably 25 yards away. Tells me he'll buy me dinner if I hit that. Marlin Model 39, 1930's manufacture, open sights. 1 shot, and I blew the burning ember off, left the filter and some tobacco on the post. Dinner was good,
 
Mine was a fluke but pretty amazing for me.

When I was about 14 i was out deer hunting with my dad. After a long day sneaking through the woods and traipsing up and down ridges and gullies we were just heading back to camp. We came into a clearing and dad spotted a sparrow on a low branch of a tree about 30-40 yds away. Since it was my first hunt using the old Savage .30-06 he wanted to give me a chance to at least shoot at something. Si he challenged me to shoot the sparrow.

Not knowing any better I casually brought up the rifle, no sling, standing in the open, sighted through the old Banner scope and centered the crosshairs on the birds head and squeezed off. Boom!

It looked like the bird fell off so we walked over and looked around for it. The bird was neatly decapitated at the top of its neck! Dad was stunned as he never imagined I would even come close to it. Somehow in the field my freehand hold is much steadier than at the range.
 
A jackrabbit took off running about 10 yards in front of me and after missing a couple of shots, at about 40 yards, he darted to my left and disappeared in some tall grass. I assumed he was still running and led him accordingly with my open sighted Winchester .22 magnum. I squeezed off a shot and the bullet hit its mark. Definitely a case of "blind" luck.
 
I was out fishing with a buddy of mine when his grandfather called him on his cell and told him to take out a beaver that kept damming up a section of the lake. Our skiff was moving at a guess probably 3-4 knots when he spotted the beaver. It was nearly dusk. I never did see the beaver even as he took aim from the moving skiff. We were probably 2-300 yards away when he squeezed off the round. A few minutes later we pulled up to the beaver and sure enough his 7mm dropped it from the moving skiff at est 2-300 yards in 1 shot. I couldn't stop talking about what a great shot it was. Dude caught more fish than me too. Life just isn't fair sometimes :)
 
Hitting the gong at 300 yards offhand with my Mosin. Pure luck :)

The other would be a ~10 yard shot with my.45 at a bobber on the ground. Exploded on contact with only one shot at it. My sights were larger than the bobber.
 
My best two were interesting.
A buddy looked at a post 93 yards away through his scoped 22 and said he was going to shoot at a tiny knot. I couldn't see the knot, but told him to point it out when he got there and looked at it. I 'marked' his hand and waited for him to move away and fired two shots wit my S Single Six. He hollered for me to come and look.
His two holes were at 5 and 6 oclock, 1/2" low. Mine were exactly 1/2" below his two.

Last year, I spotted a wasp landing on a small rock in the driveway using a Crossman pellet pistol, I drew a bead from 30-40 feet away and fired. I couldn't see the rock jump or the wasp take off, so i walked over. I found a wing o each side of the rock. No other trace of the wasp.
 
The most spectacular shot I have ever witnessed was back in about 1970ish. A classmate and myself were at his Dad’s farm shooting .22s. No tin can with in 50 yards was safe. His older brother walked up and wanted to take a few shots. This older brother was an excellent shot with both a rifle and a shotgun. He was rolling all of our tin cans with ease. About that time a flock of mallard ducks flew over. He took aim with the .22 at the lead duck, fired, and down it went. Definitely illegal, and scared us so bad we put the rifles away and found something else to do that day.
 
Back yard about 50 years ago I had my lever cocking BB gun looking for sparrows in the trees, not a one. Orange dragonfly flew by and shooting from the hip, it fell out of the air. Went to look and it's head was gone. If that would happen today I'd go buy a couple of lottery tickets.
 
My neighbor built an internally suppressed savage mkii for his buddy, well we were shooting. On his 600 yard range, had a bunch of suppressed rifles out that day. He took his buddies savage that we just sighted in at 100 yards, he aims at the 350 yard target and nails it 3 shots in a row. Later like 15 mins later he takes my sig716 with yhm ti 762 on it and hits the 200 yards target, then aims up at the 600 yard target and nails it 2 for 2. He saw that I was impressed, so the humble Guy he is explains to me that if his property was ever invaded from that 600 yards target he would nail them all, but put him at a differernt. Range he would be in trouble.

600 yards for the 308 is nothing spectacular, but I hadn't zeroed the rifle yet.
 
The long shot

On a cold winter day in January saw a squirrel running accross a snow covered field at 650 yards away. I had a Rem 66 clone (.22 Long Rifle) fully loaded and offhand I fired five shots..I could not see the impact of the bullets, but the fifth one hit him in the rump...as he kept circling around. I had to walk out to it and counted the paces..that's how I figured out the distance. It was dead by the time I reached it. Could I do it again...probably not in a million years.
 
Shot a chicken through both eyes with a .22Cal Pellet gun from about 120 feet.
Heck I didn't even think I was going to hit it when I took the shot.


The Tragedy is that it was my friend's mom's chicken and someone was going to have to face her and make a surprise suggestion for dinner that night. My friend was a champ and volunteered to be the bad guy. He did shoot at it first :D



OH, and not an amazing shot but it took some work and some of you will understand why. Hit a brick, the one I was aiming at, about 25 yards with a Suppressed MAC-10 .45 in single shot. If you have ever shot one then you will know why this even sounds memorable.
 
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Several years ago i threw a Hail Mary muzzleloader bullet at a hog at just over 300 yards distance. Bullet went low just under the hogs belly. It hit a rock, fragmented and ripped the hogs belly open. He went about 50 yerds and keeled over.
 
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