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[Bobby Light]

What is some of yalls best shots that youve made to kill an animal?? I know mine was when i shot a gator right behind the eye from about 50 yards away with an opensite .22

[Bucof2010]

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[tvc184]

I don't remember ever making a shot to write home about. All of my deer kills have pretty much been broadside or quartering shots at 100 yards or less. I may have made some long shots on ducks back in the day but none specifically come to mind. I do remember making a head shot on a rabbit at about 60 yards or so with a .22 rifle and no scope or rest. Easy shot as the rabbit was in the open but just long for open sights.

[thetragichippy]

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I don't remember ever making a shot to write home about. All of my deer kills have pretty much been broadside or quartering shots at 100 yards or less. I may have made some long shots on ducks back in the day but none specifically come to mind. I do remember making a head shot on a rabbit at about 60 yards or so with a .22 rifle and no scope or rest. Easy shot as the rabbit was in the open but just long for open sights.
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I have seen a sample of your gun collection.  I was expecting a story about a deer and you using your machine gun to put 20 rounds in him contained to the size of a quarter  ;D

[westend1]

I killed a rat with a slingshot.  Does that count?

[thetragichippy]

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I killed a rat with a slingshot.  Does that count?
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Depends on if the Rat was running  ;D

[bullets13]

Several years ago i shot a coyote that was running our neighbor's livestock.  he was 50 or 60 yards away, running at an angle away from me, and i hit him with a clean kill shot with no rest or scope with my .44 rifle. 

[The Ingredient]

When I was a kid, I shot a bat out of the air with my Daisy bb gun. One shot one kill. Looking back ,he probably actually was trying to catch my bb, but I thought I was a bad dude to have shot a bat with a bb gun with one attempt!!!

[BearBryant]

Not all that long but I shot two does at 215 yards.  They were walking across my field of view right to left, with one behind the other.  I dropped the rear one first and then immediately hit the first one. 

[piratepride86]

a coyote at 468 yards, a doe at 452 yards and this year an 8 point at 292 yards, all with a .270 and the distances were checked with a rangefinder.

[tvc184]

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a coyote at 468 yards, a doe at 452 yards and this year an 8 point at 292 yards, all with a .270 and the distances were checked with a rangefinder.
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I hit a 185" Boone and Crockett buck from 673 yards verified while hanging from a tree limb by my legs and shooting upside down. I just didn't want to bring it up.

[643]

[quote name="piratepride86" post="921735" timestamp="1291002060"]
a coyote at 468 yards, a doe at 452 yards and this year an 8 point at 292 yards, all with a .270 and the distances were checked with a rangefinder.
[/quote]If they were not head shot, I wouldn't even talk about it.Pffffftttt....

[tvc184]

....... in the eye.

[rip2506]

I was in the local Academy the other day when a gentleman told me he could routinely hit targets out to 1600yds back in his military days.  My comfort zone is 200yds and my best shot was a lizard broadside off a building at 15 paces with my daisy! :D  Double lung and did not have to track him!

Nothing beats shooting them (deer) with a bow right under you though.

Speaking of has anyone else seen the new Tred Barta on Versus.. Dude kills a 4pt  Texas buck at 28yds. Long Bow..  out of a wheel chair.  Tred's arrogant at times but I love that dude! That was a trophy!

[LumRaiderFan]

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I was in the local Academy the other day when a gentleman told me he could routinely hit targets out to 1600yds back in his military days.  My comfort zone is 200yds and my best shot was a lizard broadside off a building at 15 paces with my daisy! :D  Double lung and did not have to track him!

Nothing beats shooting them (deer) with a bow right under you though.

Speaking of has anyone else seen the new Tred Barta on Versus.. Dude kills a 4pt  Texas buck at 28yds. Long Bow..  out of a wheel chair.  Tred's arrogant at times but I love that dude! That was a trophy!
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Tred is the man...just listen to his theme song! 8)

It is amazing the animals he has taken with a longbow...and even after he's disabled and in a wheelchair...he still gets it done...gotta love it! 

He is the man!

[mat]

I think I saw him shoot a duck out of the air with a bow. Took several tries but he did it.

[piratepride86]

i have to agree with you Rip, bow hunting is more fun than rifle hunting. anybody can kill deer with a rifle @ 300 yards, but it takes a real hunter to kill them at 5 yards!  i use a Bob Lee recurve now that i purchased  in June. now that the freezer is almost full, its time for it to come back out.

[BearBryant]

Shot two hogs with one shot Friday afternoon.  Totally unintentional but cool nonetheless. 

[piratepride86]

in reply to tvc184 and 643,  i dont care what yall think, i made those shots. if you practice long shots, you can make long shots. i have a 500 yard shot and i see a lot of deer there every year. i dont want to go to camp whining about  'its was too far'! if you cant run with the big dogs, stay on the porch!

[tvc184]

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[643]

I can run with the big dogs but I don't run with all the dogs, my son who was sitting with his brother at age 9 or 10 >accedently< hit a running deer @ 400+yrds in the head so your point is??? Yrs back a guy came into our shop saying his son (12) missed 2 deer at 400yrds and was considering getting him another gun so as to make shots at that distance, my reply to him was he needed to beat his sons a$$ and teach him NOT to take shots like that, he took his work somewhere else and I didn't care, YOU have NO respect for the animals you hunt PERIOD....

[BearBryant]

Wait a minute... Are you saying that a 400 yard shot is unethical?  If someone is proficient at it and comfortable with it then there is nothing unethical about it at all.  I wouldn't take it because I don't feel comfortable at that range but for others that are more proficient at that range then there is nothing at all wrong about that shot. 

[piratepride86]

it looked to me like yall were poking fun at me or didnt believe i could make those shots. sorry if i offended anyone on here. i can and do shoot that far , but it takes a lot of practice and patience. as far as respecting the animals, i am an ethical shooter and wont pull the trigger if i am not sure i take the animal cleanly. and i wont even attempt a head shot, because ive seen a few wounded deer lost and i know they died suffering. this will be my last post on here, so happy hunting everyone.

[tvc184]

[quote name="piratepride86" post="933339" timestamp="1292385026"]
it looked to me like yall were poking fun at me or didnt believe i could make those shots. sorry if i offended anyone on here. i can and do shoot that far , but it takes a lot of practice and patience. as far as respecting the animals, i am an ethical shooter and wont pull the trigger if i am not sure i take the animal cleanly. and i wont even attempt a head shot, because ive seen a few wounded deer lost and i know they died suffering. this will be my last post on here, so happy hunting everyone.
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I'm surely not making fun of you. I do like to make jokes though.

I could care less how far someone shoots if it is within that person's range. If a person can't put a round in a 5 inch circle at 100 yards, he has no business shooting at 400 yards though. I practice shooting my bow out to 40 yards but have never taken more than a 20 yard shot.

Like Clint Eastwood said in Magnum Force..... "A man's got to know his limitations".

[BearBryant]

As far as head shots.... wounded deer?    THey are the safest shots because they are either hit (dead) or miss.