Personal best...shot

What is the longest shot you have taken and made the kill?
What were you shooting?
Lets be honest here...
mine is not all that far but it's as far as i have ever practiced - 250 yrds. HOG - .270

560, .308 rem 700 r5 with a leupold mark 4, 4.5-15x50? boom wait wait wait drop, DRT

412yds axis..... 300wsm 150gr BST.

821 yds....Auodad ram.....308...150 gr ballistic

550 yards, Remington .308. Wasn't any waiting to know I'd hit solid, though. At that range a 165gr .308's still going about 1.5x the speed of sound.

edited to add: Oh, that's the longest shot I've made on a game animal. I've made a couple a bit further out on pigs and other varmints, usually with .25-06 or .22-250.

65 yards in the face 8 point buck. I never shoot over 100 yards.

400 yards Rem M 700 30.06 150gr nosler ballistic tip. It was down a shooting lane, I didn't have a rangefinder either. It was a longhorn spike trying to get with a doe, I hit him in the neck and he fell like a sack of potatos.

A yote little over 625 yards. Remington sendero in 25-06 with a Leupold vx III 3x9. First time I ever pick up this rifle (dad's). Yote was in a slow trot moving right to left. Told dad I needed to lead him and adjust for distance. He said just to put it on his chest. Well I did it my way. Pulled the trigger when the verdical hair was even with nose and horizonal was even with tips of the ears. Hit him in the ear. Always listen to dad!!!

lol, he dropped didnt he?

WOW thats a flat shooting 25/06 or you had it sighted in for 600+yds!!!

407 on a trotting coyote according to the range finder. Rem 700 with Bushnell 6-24x50 scope, winchester ballistic tip 130grain .270.

357 yards doe, .243 Remington Corelokt 100 grain.....knew my distance and had practiced out to 300 scope was dead on at 200. Dropped her.

Yall got some good ones. 100 yards. Deer i shoot get close. Waiting till i get my new rifle to make long distance shots.

trotting coyote, 165, Sig 9mm.... with witnesses thank goodness...

How in the world did you do that?

400 + on a doe...223
400 + on a running spike 30-06

WINNER!!

Jackrabbit, 200 yds with a ruger 22 pistol, needless to say i didnt get him on the first shot but he bit the dust regardless. It was by the grace of God that i was even close

I was chasing some teal up a creek one day when my cousin and I came up on a little clearing on top of a small hill. I'm watching the teal go down between the trees and I hear a wood duck going away from me. I had never shot a wood duck so I instantly turn to see it flying about 30 yards out and away from me. My shotgun was in my right hand and my left hand was gripped to a tree to keep me from sliding back down the bank in the mud. I swing my shotgun up with my right arm and point as close as I can, not really able to line up the bead, I just pull the trigger and hope as he reaches 40+ yards from me. Sure enough, sucker drops down into the creek. My cousin turns and said "are you kidding me!?" I know it's not as special as some of the shots you guys have told of, since I was using a shotgun, but it was my first wood duck and I was dang proud considering I was pointing on instinct rather than line of sight with the bead.

402 on an 11 point... 300 weatherby mag 180 gr partition

I killed a doe at 376yds by range finder with a 25-06 remington sendero , Killed a couple of yote's over 300yds with the sendero 220 swift .

347 yards on a doe out on an open wheat field using a Winchester Model 70 in .243 and 100 grain bullet. Boom, watch, watch, she falls down, wait and then I hear the "whomp" from the impact. Insane shot using an old 4X scope that came with the rifle back in the olden days. Now its a squirrel scope but at the time it was all I had. Doe looked like a little poodle dog at that distance.

Still very proud of that shot.

A Mile in a half with the old Thirty nalt six it was the Willie Buck!LOL! Old Jeff Foxworthy Shot him! My prolly about the best is 150 Yards.

Longest shot to date was ~125 yards...

But my personal best was when I killed 2 hogs on a full sprint with one bullet @ about 100 yards.

400 yrds on a small pig, free hand.

305 yards (stepped off) head shot on a doe with a 220 Swift. She was in a big oat field and I used a 50 pound sack of feed for a rest on the hood of my truck. Longest attempted shot was 1500 yards (est - too far for the range finder to work) on a yote with a 7 mag. I had it perfectly on line but the round hit about 7 or 8 feet short.

300yds. 30.06. I believe it was 165 gr. I am not yet confident in my shooting to take a longer shot than that.

I love how much the .25-06 shows up in these stories i love that round and second to that would be my 7mm rem mag

227 yards on a sika deer. I really have never been in a situation yet where i've had to shoot far.

Thought he was a bit farther than he was, dropped him with a high spine shot with a .22-250

525 (stepped off) .25-06 on yote.

207 yards, 300 WSM on a 220 lbs Axis Buck.

275 yard neck shot on a doe, Rem 7600 270 core lock

175 and 225 pig. Free hand with a group of pigs running straight away from us. Killed the first one, jacked another shell, and killed the second one. I dont know how since they were running straight away, but it happened. Free hand with a .270. Also, at the exact same time, my friend did the exact same thing, but at 150 and 200 yards. The 4 pigs averaged around 175, and all 4 were taken with a .270. We were 11/12 that night spotlighting.

The furthest for me so far is using an open sight Marlin 308 at about 120 yds on a Texas Dall. Dropped the ram first shot. Not my limit by any means, but just the farthest opportunity I've had.

There's some pansies out there that would only take that with a 15 power scope!

Furthest kill shot was at just over 375 on a cull buck last year using my 4 wheeler as a rest with my weatherby 270 with a 4-12X40 scope that i keep on 10X, deer dropped right where he was hit. But my furthest shot was on a metal turkey at 853 yeards with about 15 mph winds with my .308 Rem 700 with my straight 10X leuapold M4, what a wind adjustment that was lol sniper school payed off!

Rock squirrel at 435. 20 inch heavy barrel remington 308. Climbed on a rock behind the target I was just shooting at. In the field got two hogs at 335 with the same rifle.

We were on the tactical team for the narco task force back then, and shooting competitively, and shooting nearly every day. We had been going farther and farther back, and had been really successful at 100 yards on steel. The rest was lots of luck, but it was a safe environment, wide open, and rested on the hood of my truck. Thankfully I had redneckmesiah and another friend in the truck watching, or they never would have believed it.

I have hit a couple at 400+ with a rifle, but to me this was a better feat. That Sig has taken hogs, coyotes, and even one deer, as well as saved my butt twice. It's treated with reverance around our house. I have bought two to replace it, but can't put it down. The nice pretty new ones stay in the safe.

20 yrds with 7MM

Doe at 325 with a 7mm Rem Mag. She didn't take a step.

Not the longest. but def my most interesting

good FKIN god!!!!!!!! hahahaha

I had a doe's eyeballs do the exact same thing, but that pic is freaky.

Awesome

SWEET

thats a real "eye popper"

360 paces extreme downhill shot using a tree to brace against. 25-06 Rem700 117gr Federal Premium
8pt buck. Biggest I had ever seen at the time.
Missed over the top first shot. 2nd shot direct hit in heart. One more for good measure, in the spine as he was stumbling straight away from me. DRT.

I'm gonna get blasted for this......

It was easily 11 yrs ago was hog hunting near Sweetwater bored. Saw a Buzzard gliding wayyy up in the air. My guess 400 plus yards,..My hunting buddy I was with says I bet you couldn't shoot that buzzard.

I had a Rem 7mm mag and I led him about 8 inches and hit him, he spiraled down. He went down so far away we couldn't find him. We hiked at least 2 miles looking for him Afterwards, then the what if's started in....What if I missed, where would the bullet go? Even though we were in the middle of nowhere. Plus the fine for the shooting of the bird.

Still feel bad to this day. It ruined my whole hunt. I don't share this story but I have a witness who can put me in jail.

Shane

In October of 2004 I took down a 200lb. wild pig on the run at 71 yards with a Martin Long bow as she flushed from a plum thicket. Shot placement.....right behing the shoulder...1 lung and heart.

now thats a long shot under those conditions

even if you hit him, it did very little to slow down that 7mag bullet

We have some regular old Billy Dixons on this board. My longest shot was just a tad over 200 yards with a Tikka T3 chambered in 7mm Rem.

451 yds
140 lb hog
7mm-08 140 gr Sierra GameKing

lol right....seems like everyone has let one fly at a animal and been lucky.

i feel bad now...this weekend i'ma kill something at 350 yards just to be in the club

do it to it... most of my stand set-ups present me with shots from 200-1000yds... never fails though that the deer usually get within the 75yd mark.

I can't even see 350 yards let alone take a shot that far. Maybe one of these days. I am dang impressed by some of the shots I've read about on this thread. Nice work to all

Doe at 278 yards with Remington 300 Win Mag. Unfortunately, all other shots have been under 175 yds.

Wild hogs, 1500 meters on the Ft Polk, Louisiana 50 Cal Machine Gun Range, March of 1968. They were more fun to shoot at than the old relics of tanks, APC and jeeps.

150 yards, 20 ga single shot, first quail. Dad said he must have looked back when I shot laughing and didn't see the barbed wire fence. He was in my bag, so I counted him as my first! Proud 12 year old...

On a deer around 400 yards +/- 25yards 270 winchester
On a turkey 120 yards in the head 30-06
Free hand Axis, Axis on top of Hill us way below (at least 200 yards straight up) in a jeep. The guide said axis somebody shoot and within a split second I shot downing it in his tracks. The guide said it was the most impressive shot he had ever seen. Felt pretty good about that even thou had good gash in my eyebrow from the angle of the shot with 7mm Wtby. Mag

Javalena, 240 yards with a 270.

18,775 yards.

311 yds Antelope, Ruger 25/06

Yeah and some grunt like me had to tell you where to place the shots. One in front, then one in back and finally fire for effect! We sure were glad to hear those rounds whistling overhead.

368 yards whitetail doe, .30-06, Sierra Matchking 168gr

Don't laugh to hard, he was in the Artillery. 105's have a long range, real long, but it took an Infantryman to tell where to aim.

FDC baby

old enough to remember FADAC?

I remember the FDC, we usually called in the coordinates to the the fire base/LZ or where ever they kept the big toys. I only remember a couple of times we had an Arty officer with us.

FADAC, no idea, either before or after, but guessing after my time. Been a civilian since 1969.

I hear ya Dogcather, I just thought it was funny.

I got a doe at 350 with my .243 and leupold using the truck mirror for a rest. ( Not off the road or anything like that! lol )

The axis I shot opening weekend wouldnt stop and I ended up shootin him at around 250 trottin using a fence post for a rest.

Thats all I got

best shot i ever made was on a spotlighted yote running with open sights 22lr two shots 1 hit at 175 yards.

105's are for varmint hunting, we also had 4-175's for the serious bidness. The boy's on the ground never seemed to care which one we sent out just as long as we did it quick!

Good call and story. Did the 105mm use the short .50 cal spotter round? It is amazing how accurate the big artillery guys get.

The BB with 16 inch gun could put 2200 lbs HE downrange 25 miles. That over the horizon.

We had 5inch 38s. For pratice one time they put out a 100 foot tall weather ballon weighted to stay on surface. After about 20 rounds at 5 miles they gave up and sent out the sniper in a launch to nail it. The fire control guys were not very happy people.

We never used them but I've seen them mounted on the 106 MM M40A1 Recoilless. With the new lazer guided rounds they're getting one shot hits even on moving targets.

302 yards
95 grain Nosler ballistic tip 243 handload
Remington 700
Bushnell 3x9x40
At sundown, sitting in a leanup stand using a Cabella's bipod braced between my legs.
14 point buck, double lung and found pieces of the bullet in the exit blood. Buck traveled about 65 yards and fell over.

Did the same shot, same location only about 285 yards on a 260 pound boar hog last year.

I LOVE long shots!!

405 yds. .300 in Llano. Sitting on top of a butte, shot a 8pt under the feeder at the foot of the next butte.

325 yds
225 lb Wild Boar slow trotting across a field.
.270Win Federal SP out of a Remington 700 ADL w/ 3x9x40 scope
Heart shot. Hog ran 40 yds and piled up.
I used a barbwire fence post and wire strand for a rest.

I've never made a shot that's worth touting because most of my shots are probably 100 yards or less.

For some reason, I've never missed a coyote, even when on the dead run. Must be something about the way I hate to let them get away.

201 yards.....Blackbuck

6 yards.

Rattlesnake.

Blunderbuss filled with aggregate.

Beat That!!

Mule deer an elk,In 56-7 before road hunting/ harvesting/ethical,became popular or illegal, We watched a bunch of locals,north of craig colorado on hwy13@saw mill road,using a picnic bench with huge navy binocs and spotting scopes,shooting from mountain 1 side to another, calling shots,and it was impressive.Ive critter shot with 222mag/ 243 since 50s, all kinds walkin or flying,all ranges,but never nothing like that. Mile+ an putting them down. year or two later outdoorlife? ran a article,on same group.

What is he looking at?