Whats the longest shot you have made hunting? - Page 2

Full-choke · October 22, 2007, 08:04 AM

My most impressive, but not farthest was a 175 yard, one shot to the head deader then a door nail groundhog with my Savage 17 HMR and Hornady 20 grain XTP bullets. I took the shot on a whim and ended things pretty rapidly for the little fella.

F-C

mikejonestkd · October 22, 2007, 09:00 AM

Woodchuck on a grass airstrip - 375 measured yards - two shots to get him. TC encore in .223
Woodchuck - same airstrip - 325 yards - first shot. same TC encore in .223
deer -shotgun - 115 yards rem 870 cantilever rem copper sabots
deer handgun 225 yards - tc encore 15" in .308 win. win supreme 150 gr silvertips.
small game - squirrels - probably just under 100 yards with a .22 bolt action rifle.
Coyote - 250 yards with a weatherby SVm in .223 55 gr sp
carp - 10 yards 12 ga rem 1100.....( I was young and dumb )

hayseed51 · October 22, 2007, 03:36 PM

I'm hesitant to even post this, as I don't really know if it qualifies as hunting, but there was a critter involved,so here goes...

In 1990, a week before season, myself and my two hunting partners were up scouting the elevated basin we were going to hunt opening day. We eased along the ridgebacks most of the day and by midafternoon decided we should start heading back to the truck. As we neared the valley floor we decided to stop for a break. As it happened, there was a pond below us.

A muskrat had the mis-fortune of cruising across the pond at that time. Like a redneck, I said "Watch this". I had 300gr Sierras in front of 77 gr 4350 in my old Sako 375, and had shot quite a bit at distance with that bullet in the summer. I estimated range to be well over 500 yards and very steep. From sitting, I gave er a little Kentucky windage and touched it off. One of the guys is hollering that he thinks I hit him. Truthfully, I expected to maybe get within a couple of feet, but of course I didn't let that be known.

By the time we tromped down there, the wind had blown what was left of him over to the bank.

To this day, the one guy still tells anyone who will listen about that shot. It does make it hard for me to explain how I clutched up on far larger and closer targets... Just last fall he bought one of those new Leupold rangefinders, and when he was headed up to that same basin, he stopped and lazzed from the pond up to the outcrop I had shot from. 654 YARDS! Yes, it was just a lucky shot, but don't tell anyone.

UMP · October 22, 2007, 04:47 PM

White tail doe at 130 yds with a Winchester model 70 shooting Winchester 150 grain 308.

toolguyb · October 23, 2007, 09:18 AM

whitetail at 372 (lasered) in bean field. 180 nosler partition .300 wby mag.
1 shot 1 kill

Capp35 · October 23, 2007, 02:33 PM

375yd shot on a 10pt whitetail, with a Rem 7 mag.

Ranger Al can verify that the 139gr Hornady bullet out of this cartridge is VERY accurate.

45Marlin carbine · October 23, 2007, 02:55 PM

have to brag some on my shot a crow resting in the top of a tall hickory with a slight breeze (actually I have done this 3-4 times) around 135 paces up a hill across the flat top. AMT small game hunter .22 LR using Super-X sighting thru a Simmons 3X9. resting on a porch railing corner of my house. I have missed way more than I've hit tho at that perch which seems to be a favorite of theirs. adjusting for the windage is the tough part.

CamoCop · October 24, 2007, 04:34 AM

326 yards using a Weatherby .300 magnum

Bigk33 · October 26, 2007, 02:43 PM

Deer - 700 yards running
Elk - 450 and 350 yards
all with .270
Racoon 125 yards 22lr
Cotton tail 75 yards with air gun

Fat White Boy · October 26, 2007, 10:39 PM

Ground Squirrel- 315 yards with my .22-250.

Coyote- 217 yards with my Remington 700vls in .308.

Wild Pig- 230 yards with my Winchester Model 70 in .270.

Quail- 53 yards Rem 1100 12ga.

Chukar- 60+ yards w/ Rem 1100 12ga.

Art Eatman · October 27, 2007, 10:15 AM

That chukar shot reminded me of a day that the Good Lord wasn't favoring a dove. Back in the days when I didn't quite understand that "full choke" on an old Model 12 12-gauge was for paper shells and not plastic shells with the plastic shot dealie, I missed a lot. What it was, was, for all practical purposes I had an "extra sure-enough full choke" critter.

So, one day, just for the heck of it, I took a shot at a way-over-yonder dove. Completely amazed to see him crumple and fall. Ninety yards. One pellet had hit him in the eye.

I'll take luck over skill, any day.

Dirty_Harry · October 27, 2007, 11:24 PM

415 yds on a whitetail with my .30-06.

justinbaker · October 29, 2007, 12:18 AM

330 yards with my first elk yesterday morning 300 win mag loaded with 168 gr barnes tsx

CoRoMo · October 29, 2007, 01:54 PM

So far, I've been lucky... I guess.

The farthest shot I've ever taken was on a cow elk from about 100-110 yards.

Easy.

Mannlicher · October 31, 2007, 03:41 PM

257 yards, across a peanut hay field on a small buck. One shot kill with a Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifle in .270 Win.

kjm · October 31, 2007, 10:05 PM

175 yards. Bad gutshot. I never have attempted a shot like that again. The next longest would be around 120 yards which is now what I limit myself to. I still fill all the tags and the freezer and don't have to dry heave while cleaning it. As I get older and my eyes get weaker, I am learning that even shorter shots are nice. If I had my way, I'd make them all at 20 yards with a pistol.

Vstrom · October 31, 2007, 10:12 PM

The longest shot made while hunting blue barrels (55 gallons)700 yards with a 50 cal sniper rifle one of the gun stores had set up for demonstration, cost a buck a bullet but hit the thing 9out of 10 times now that will put a smile on your face!!!

langenc · November 1, 2007, 09:22 PM

When in high school I shot a crow at a loong ways. To this day I wish I knew how far it was. There were two of them. I hit one and the other jumped into the air and went wild and landed. I had reloaded-my dads single shot- and shot at the second and saw the dirt puff just behind the crow. Good thing I missed as making a 'double' and not knowing the distance would really be bad. I guess I could have 'stepped it off' and wish I had.

mikejonestkd · November 2, 2007, 07:50 AM

A buck a bullet for .50BMG? Please tell me where that was. I'd shoot all day at that cost!!!!

arizona hunter · November 2, 2007, 11:50 AM

So far my longest prairie dog is 408 yds and 250 yds for my longest big game (black bear).

Dannyboy303 · November 3, 2007, 07:59 AM

Longest shot at home was at a kangaroo from 700metres away(measursed with ute) with a 300winmag, also at a friends have shot a crow from 455metres with a 243.... took around 4shots but it hit it in the end :P

chunk · November 7, 2007, 01:12 PM

a coyote, 340 steps from my front door . with a .270 win

arizona hunter · November 7, 2007, 02:16 PM

Chunk,
that sounds like a good way to practice your shooting skills come deer season.

Picher · November 7, 2007, 03:17 PM

You won't belive this, but it's the absolute truth:

Crow: That was flying directly overhead in a large forested area, crossing a woods road about 100 yards up. With my .22-250 Rem, I shot it's head off.

Woodchuck: Head shot offhand at 220 yards with .22-250. Only the head and neck were visible in the grass.

Skunk: moving around in a field, from prone with rest, 450 yards, using custom stocked -bedded and floated Savage 110, .30-06 with K 2.5X scope, and handloaded ammo, I think with 150 grain Rem Bronze Point (1962).

Deer: Buck striding across blueberry field, offhand at 200 yards - Rem 700 SS, HS Precision Stock, Balvar 8B, 130 Ballistic Tip ahead of 60+ grains of Reloder 22.

Weirdest shot was about 1962 at a woodchuck at 600 yards on the other side of a shallow valley. Using the above-mentioned Savage 110 with the K 2.5X scope on a cloudy day. On the second shot, there was a bright blue flash about where the woodchuck appeared to be...then a loud 60-cycle hum and the blue flash turned into a large blue fireball as the powerline (that I didn't see) about 250 yards away, parted and fell; electricity arcing across the wet grass for a while. Obviously, I didn't hit the woodchuck.

The milking machine in the barn directly behind me stopped running abruptly and the farmer came out. I asked to use his phone and he allowed that he thought I might want to. The power company foreman's name was Grimshaw...and he was mighty grim. Fortunately, being a college student, the power company never sent a bill. Power was cut off to 6 towns. Of course, I always thought that I'd have hit that woodchuck, if only the darned power line hadn't gotten in the way.

Picher

CajunBass · November 18, 2007, 04:34 PM

Longest on a deer...About 35 yards with No 1 buckshot.

Longest on anything. About 50 yards at a squirrel WAY up in a tree. Held the crosshairs about an inch over him, and he dropped like a rock. Rifle was a Marlin 39-A. Pure dumb luck.

Never shot anything with a centerfire rifle.

October 22, 2007, 08:04 AM	#26
Full-choke Senior Member Join Date: May 10, 2007 Location: Ohio Posts: 617	My most impressive, but not farthest was a 175 yard, one shot to the head deader then a door nail groundhog with my Savage 17 HMR and Hornady 20 grain XTP bullets. I took the shot on a whim and ended things pretty rapidly for the little fella. F-C __________________ TC Encore -6mm Rem Rifle; Ruger 10/22; Ruger 10/22 Ultimate; Stoeger Condor 20; ; Remington 1100 12; Stoeger 22 Luger; Taurus PT1911; Ruger SR40c God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible. - Ted Nugent

October 22, 2007, 09:00 AM	#27
mikejonestkd Senior Member Join Date: January 3, 2006 Location: Brockport, NY Posts: 3,716	Woodchuck on a grass airstrip - 375 measured yards - two shots to get him. TC encore in .223 Woodchuck - same airstrip - 325 yards - first shot. same TC encore in .223 deer -shotgun - 115 yards rem 870 cantilever rem copper sabots deer handgun 225 yards - tc encore 15" in .308 win. win supreme 150 gr silvertips. small game - squirrels - probably just under 100 yards with a .22 bolt action rifle. Coyote - 250 yards with a weatherby SVm in .223 55 gr sp carp - 10 yards 12 ga rem 1100.....( I was young and dumb ) __________________ You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

October 27, 2007, 11:24 PM	#37
Dirty_Harry Senior Member Join Date: January 11, 2006 Location: Kalamazoo, MI Posts: 1,484	415 yds on a whitetail with my .30-06. __________________ "The only purpose for a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you never should have laid down." "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them." -John Wayne

October 29, 2007, 01:54 PM	#39
CoRoMo Member Join Date: October 26, 2007 Location: Colorado Posts: 38	So far, I've been lucky... I guess. The farthest shot I've ever taken was on a cow elk from about 100-110 yards. Easy. __________________ "The 2nd Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my concealed weapons permit, period!" Ted Nugent

October 31, 2007, 03:41 PM	#40
Mannlicher Senior Member Join Date: July 8, 2001 Location: North Central Florida & Miami Posts: 3,209	257 yards, across a peanut hay field on a small buck. One shot kill with a Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifle in .270 Win. __________________ Nemo Me Impune Lacesset "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.".........Ronald Reagan

October 22, 2007, 03:36 PM	#28
hayseed51 Member Join Date: October 10, 2007 Posts: 24	I'm hesitant to even post this, as I don't really know if it qualifies as hunting, but there was a critter involved,so here goes... In 1990, a week before season, myself and my two hunting partners were up scouting the elevated basin we were going to hunt opening day. We eased along the ridgebacks most of the day and by midafternoon decided we should start heading back to the truck. As we neared the valley floor we decided to stop for a break. As it happened, there was a pond below us. A muskrat had the mis-fortune of cruising across the pond at that time. Like a redneck, I said "Watch this". I had 300gr Sierras in front of 77 gr 4350 in my old Sako 375, and had shot quite a bit at distance with that bullet in the summer. I estimated range to be well over 500 yards and very steep. From sitting, I gave er a little Kentucky windage and touched it off. One of the guys is hollering that he thinks I hit him. Truthfully, I expected to maybe get within a couple of feet, but of course I didn't let that be known. By the time we tromped down there, the wind had blown what was left of him over to the bank. To this day, the one guy still tells anyone who will listen about that shot. It does make it hard for me to explain how I clutched up on far larger and closer targets... Just last fall he bought one of those new Leupold rangefinders, and when he was headed up to that same basin, he stopped and lazzed from the pond up to the outcrop I had shot from. 654 YARDS! Yes, it was just a lucky shot, but don't tell anyone.

October 22, 2007, 04:47 PM	#29
UMP Member Join Date: September 8, 2006 Posts: 42	White tail doe at 130 yds with a Winchester model 70 shooting Winchester 150 grain 308.

October 23, 2007, 09:18 AM	#30
toolguyb Member Join Date: March 1, 2006 Posts: 73	whitetail at 372 (lasered) in bean field. 180 nosler partition .300 wby mag. 1 shot 1 kill

October 23, 2007, 02:33 PM	#31
Capp35 Senior Member Join Date: May 2, 2006 Location: Lone Star State Posts: 198	375yd shot on a 10pt whitetail, with a Rem 7 mag. Ranger Al can verify that the 139gr Hornady bullet out of this cartridge is VERY accurate.

October 23, 2007, 02:55 PM	#32
45Marlin carbine Junior member Join Date: January 26, 2007 Location: South-Western North Carolina Posts: 1,124	have to brag some on my shot a crow resting in the top of a tall hickory with a slight breeze (actually I have done this 3-4 times) around 135 paces up a hill across the flat top. AMT small game hunter .22 LR using Super-X sighting thru a Simmons 3X9. resting on a porch railing corner of my house. I have missed way more than I've hit tho at that perch which seems to be a favorite of theirs. adjusting for the windage is the tough part.

October 24, 2007, 04:34 AM	#33
CamoCop Senior Member Join Date: December 2, 2006 Location: Central Florida Posts: 133	326 yards using a Weatherby .300 magnum

October 26, 2007, 02:43 PM	#34
Bigk33 Junior Member Join Date: October 26, 2007 Posts: 1	Deer - 700 yards running Elk - 450 and 350 yards all with .270 Racoon 125 yards 22lr Cotton tail 75 yards with air gun

October 26, 2007, 10:39 PM	#35
Fat White Boy Senior Member Join Date: March 18, 2005 Posts: 1,276	Ground Squirrel- 315 yards with my .22-250. Coyote- 217 yards with my Remington 700vls in .308. Wild Pig- 230 yards with my Winchester Model 70 in .270. Quail- 53 yards Rem 1100 12ga. Chukar- 60+ yards w/ Rem 1100 12ga.

October 27, 2007, 10:15 AM	#36
Art Eatman Staff in Memoriam Join Date: November 13, 1998 Location: Terlingua, TX; Thomasville, GA Posts: 24,798	That chukar shot reminded me of a day that the Good Lord wasn't favoring a dove. Back in the days when I didn't quite understand that "full choke" on an old Model 12 12-gauge was for paper shells and not plastic shells with the plastic shot dealie, I missed a lot. What it was, was, for all practical purposes I had an "extra sure-enough full choke" critter. So, one day, just for the heck of it, I took a shot at a way-over-yonder dove. Completely amazed to see him crumple and fall. Ninety yards. One pellet had hit him in the eye. I'll take luck over skill, any day.

October 29, 2007, 12:18 AM	#38
justinbaker Member Join Date: July 11, 2007 Location: new mexico Posts: 41	330 yards with my first elk yesterday morning 300 win mag loaded with 168 gr barnes tsx

October 31, 2007, 10:05 PM	#41
kjm Senior Member Join Date: December 24, 1999 Location: College Station, Texas Posts: 1,871	175 yards. Bad gutshot. I never have attempted a shot like that again. The next longest would be around 120 yards which is now what I limit myself to. I still fill all the tags and the freezer and don't have to dry heave while cleaning it. As I get older and my eyes get weaker, I am learning that even shorter shots are nice. If I had my way, I'd make them all at 20 yards with a pistol. __________________ COME AND TAKE IT!!!

October 31, 2007, 10:12 PM	#42
Vstrom Member Join Date: October 18, 2007 Location: Washington state Posts: 78	The longest shot made while hunting blue barrels (55 gallons)700 yards with a 50 cal sniper rifle one of the gun stores had set up for demonstration, cost a buck a bullet but hit the thing 9out of 10 times now that will put a smile on your face!!!

November 1, 2007, 09:22 PM	#43
langenc Senior Member Join Date: August 19, 2007 Location: Montmorency Co, MI Posts: 1,551	When in high school I shot a crow at a loong ways. To this day I wish I knew how far it was. There were two of them. I hit one and the other jumped into the air and went wild and landed. I had reloaded-my dads single shot- and shot at the second and saw the dirt puff just behind the crow. Good thing I missed as making a 'double' and not knowing the distance would really be bad. I guess I could have 'stepped it off' and wish I had.

November 2, 2007, 07:50 AM	#44
mikejonestkd Senior Member Join Date: January 3, 2006 Location: Brockport, NY Posts: 3,716	A buck a bullet for .50BMG? Please tell me where that was. I'd shoot all day at that cost!!!! __________________ You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

November 2, 2007, 11:50 AM	#45
arizona hunter Senior Member Join Date: May 20, 2005 Location: phoenix, AZ Posts: 212	So far my longest prairie dog is 408 yds and 250 yds for my longest big game (black bear).

November 3, 2007, 07:59 AM	#46
Dannyboy303 Senior Member Join Date: February 27, 2007 Location: QLD, Australia Posts: 116	Longest shot at home was at a kangaroo from 700metres away(measursed with ute) with a 300winmag, also at a friends have shot a crow from 455metres with a 243.... took around 4shots but it hit it in the end :P

November 7, 2007, 01:12 PM	#47
chunk Senior Member Join Date: June 13, 2005 Location: alabama,gulf coast Posts: 131	a coyote, 340 steps from my front door . with a .270 win __________________ TRAMPLE THE WEAK-HURDLETHE DEAD

November 7, 2007, 02:16 PM	#48
arizona hunter Senior Member Join Date: May 20, 2005 Location: phoenix, AZ Posts: 212	Chunk, that sounds like a good way to practice your shooting skills come deer season.

November 7, 2007, 03:17 PM	#49
Picher Senior Member Join Date: December 14, 2004 Location: Maine Posts: 3,694	You won't belive this, but it's the absolute truth: Crow: That was flying directly overhead in a large forested area, crossing a woods road about 100 yards up. With my .22-250 Rem, I shot it's head off. Woodchuck: Head shot offhand at 220 yards with .22-250. Only the head and neck were visible in the grass. Skunk: moving around in a field, from prone with rest, 450 yards, using custom stocked -bedded and floated Savage 110, .30-06 with K 2.5X scope, and handloaded ammo, I think with 150 grain Rem Bronze Point (1962). Deer: Buck striding across blueberry field, offhand at 200 yards - Rem 700 SS, HS Precision Stock, Balvar 8B, 130 Ballistic Tip ahead of 60+ grains of Reloder 22. Weirdest shot was about 1962 at a woodchuck at 600 yards on the other side of a shallow valley. Using the above-mentioned Savage 110 with the K 2.5X scope on a cloudy day. On the second shot, there was a bright blue flash about where the woodchuck appeared to be...then a loud 60-cycle hum and the blue flash turned into a large blue fireball as the powerline (that I didn't see) about 250 yards away, parted and fell; electricity arcing across the wet grass for a while. Obviously, I didn't hit the woodchuck. The milking machine in the barn directly behind me stopped running abruptly and the farmer came out. I asked to use his phone and he allowed that he thought I might want to. The power company foreman's name was Grimshaw...and he was mighty grim. Fortunately, being a college student, the power company never sent a bill. Power was cut off to 6 towns. Of course, I always thought that I'd have hit that woodchuck, if only the darned power line hadn't gotten in the way. Picher

November 18, 2007, 04:34 PM	#50
CajunBass Senior Member Join Date: May 6, 2005 Location: North Chesterfield, Virginia Posts: 4,767	Longest on a deer...About 35 yards with No 1 buckshot. Longest on anything. About 50 yards at a squirrel WAY up in a tree. Held the crosshairs about an inch over him, and he dropped like a rock. Rifle was a Marlin 39-A. Pure dumb luck. Never shot anything with a centerfire rifle. __________________ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 (NKJV)