Whats the longest shot you have made hunting?

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Whats the longest hunting shot you have made?What where you shooting at what rifle where you using and where did you hit it at.Can be a very long pellet gun shot on a squirrel or a really long deer shot with a o6.So tell me your story.
 
I have shot many ground squirrels at over 500 yds with my 22-250, and I shot an antelope at 250 yds, and deer at 200+ yds with my 7X57, and a pig at close to 400 yds with an 8mmRem Mag. I have also shot ground squirrels so close I could not get the scope to focus that close, and I have shot deer at less than 10 yds. Farthest shot was on a ground squirrel, closest was on a coyote.
 
I must admit it's only 81 yards. Where I hunt most of the time, it's thick woods and very hard to FIND a spot with an opening longer than 100 yards. I did once consider dropping the hammer from a .243 onto a whitetail doe at around 285 yards when hunting in a different, more wide-open county - but she had jumped over the fence to the neighboring land, so that wouldn't have been exactly ethical - I refrained.

Scorch, that is impressive shooting on those ground squirrels. :eek:
 
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I must admit it's only 81 yards. Where I hunt most of the time, it's thick woods and very hard to FIND a spot with an opening longer than 100 yards.
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I know the feeling. My longest shot has been right at 120 yards. Most of the time it's 100 or less because like you where we hunt finding a spot that you could actually see more than 100yards is next to impossible. In the case of the shot above I was overlooking a very small field, I was on one end and the deer was on the other.

It probably accounts for why my preferred deer rifle is a Marlin 30-30 with open sights which was not the one I was using in the situation above.

Mav
 
Longest would be a woodchuck at 450yds. My one and only coyote was at 230yds, and my farthest deer kill was 160yds. My personal best(IMO) long range shots would be a turkey at 70yds with a single shot 10 gauge and a 110yd off-hand head shot on a woodchuck with a single shot .22lr.
 
Antelope (Rifle)....400 yards
Antelope (handgun)....200 yards
Prairie Dogs (rifle).....600 yards
Blackpowder rifle.....200 yards
Shotgun slug......150 yards
Shotgun (shot)....50 yards
Small game (22 rimfire)....200 yards
Bow.....60 yards
 
250 yards (lasered) on a cow elk .270 Win Federal Premium ammo with 150 grain Nosler Partitions.

250+/- yards (paced) on pronghorn doe .270 Win with hand loaded Sierra 130 grain BTSP.

560 yards (lasered) on a buck mule deer .270 Win again hand loaded 130 grain Sierra BTSP.

202 yards (lasered) boar black bear .30-06 hand loaded 200 grain Nosler Partitions.

Those are the longest shots I've made on big game, all of them except the pronghorn doe have been one shot kills. I'm still not sure I should have taken my deer at that range, I don't think I'll ever try that long of a shot again. Most of the game I've taken has been inside of 200 yards.

Best shot I've ever made is 60 yards on a prairie dog with a .50 cal black powder rifle and patched round ball.
 
Had a 9-shot, one-shot kill at about 450 yards.

I'd walked a couple of miles from camp. Saw a buck meddling with a doe across a little valley. I sat down, got comfy, and started guesstimating range. I figured, oh, maybe a tad over 400 yards. Breeze from my left, from in front of the buck.

So here we go: Hold for a tad over two feet of drop, and on his nose. Bang. Nothing. Bang. Nothing. A couple more frustrations, and he picked up his left hind toe and sniffed. Hmmm. More distance, more wind. Hokay.

Four more shots. Nothing. "Nothing" is getting frustrating.

Doe gets bored. Bucky gets bored. She leaves. He meddles around a bit and then starts down the hill toward me. After a bit he stops and poses really nicely, facing me and head up.

I hold just above his horns; the breeze has quit for a moment; I touch off Ol' Pet. Bang-whop-flop. Hit low in the breast bone. Not quite three feet of drop. An '06 drops two feet in 400 yards, roughly...

Gut Bambi. Walk the two miles back to camp for truck, feeling happy. :) Drive truck to near Bambi. Load Bambi. Truck won't start. Walk to camp, get battery from my VW bus. (Street radials won't live to get to truck.) Walk with battery to truck. Batteries are heavy. Feeling unhappy. :(

Get to camp. Hang up Bambi. Take off boots. Stare at campfire, drink sixpack. Get happy. :)

Lesson: Hunt from truck, preferably one with a good battery.

Outside of that for long shots, one 400-yard prairie dog. Much less adventure.

Art
 
350 yds standing using my left hand gripping the edge of my truck door as an improvised rest across a soybean field. 2 shots, first went high, second went right where it should.

Stock Remington 700ADL .30-06 with a BSA mil dot scope. The scope has since crapped out and been replaced by a Nikon.
 
My longest shot was around 150yds it was a pig I don't have many calls for shooting very long shots that was with a 30'06. I am looking forward to the start of rifle season I have a 300rem ultra mag that I am dieing to put to use. The down side is I think it might be over kill for my area.
 
65 yds on a whitetail using a .35 rem with iron sights. Every time I hunt with a scoped rifle the deer are almost too close to use the scope. Now when I have a bow in my hands, they are in the next area code. Such is life...

I don't count the milk jugs and paper plates.
 
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