Longest shot you have made?

[hunter63]

I just curious on what you all consider a long shot, what was the distance on your longest successful shot and with what?
Does anyone actually practice for anything over 100 yds?
I'm sure that are some good shooters around here, that really have their favorite rifle dialed in.
What would you consider a "makeable shot", that you have confindence making?

Peasonaly my longest have been just over 250 paces( didn't have a tape), both one shot, drop them where they stand, kills. With a 7 mm mag, factory ammo.

We don't really have any long range, 300 to 500 yd commercial ranges much any more, they are expensive to shoot at lith all the rules and insurances thay need to have.
Also as subdivisions have encroached around them, people don't want to hear the evil guns etc. so finding a practice range is getting harder.

I do have my personnel range, and can shoot 200 yds when the neighbor is shooting also, as we use both of our properties.

[docsoos]

My two personal best shots:

1. Coyote hunting, approximately 620 yards, head shot, clean kill; Remington 700 BDL, .22-250 heavy barrel, Hornady 40 grain ballistic tip (4200+ fps), with a Leupold 6.5x-20x VX-III scope, and a Harris Bipod.

2. Deer hunting, approximately 330 yards, heart/lung shot, clean kill; Remington 700 BDL .30-'06, handloaded Nosler 150-grain Ballistic Tip, with a Leupold 3x-9x VX-III scope; used a fallen tree as a rest/hide.

Most of the time, I don't take extreme shots like this with only a 3x-9x scope, but the deer was a 14-point buck, and I was on one ascending ridge, and he was walking across a clear-cut that followed some high-voltage utility lines on the opposite ascending ridge. I had a good rest, and took my time on the shot. It paid off.

The coyote was the first real test of the .22-250 I have at extreme range, and there was no pressure to hurry up and shoot, as it was a flat, open pasture, and he was stationary, looking at a treeline 90 degrees to his left. He never knew what hit him, flipped back and never twitched. DEVASTATING round on varmints. I have taken MANY 300+ yard shots at coyotes and feral dogs, and only recall having missed twice. As long as I have the bipod out, and can get a few seconds to acquire the target (or lead a moving target, as long as it's not running dead out), I'll anchor them 99.5% of the time.

DocSoos

[rice paddy daddy]

250 or 300 yards, whichever was the longest when firing for record in the Army in 68 & 69. I honestly don't remember. I did qualify Expert with the M14, and Sharpshooter with an un-zeroed M16.

[MooseToo]

using a lever action rifle with .22 cal l.r., i can consistently hit my target at over 1/2 mile - regardless of wind or light conditions -

[CastIronCook2]

Hubbest bagged an elk at 450 yards using a Remington 700 in 7 mag, shooting a Barnes XXX 160-grain bullet ahead of 60 grains of reloader 22. Magnum rifle primers. Scope was Nikon.

[docsoos]

using a lever action rifle with .22 cal l.r., i can consistently hit my target at over 1/2 mile - regardless of wind or light conditions -

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How BIG is your target?:)

DocSoos

[tufhelp]

No "kill" involved, but we have a long shot range set up on our place. Our house sits atop a mesa that is about 175 feet above the river bottom land below. Our "range consists of three targets, a large green oxygen cylinder, a white defunct 40 gallon water heater, and a green 100 lb defunct propane gas cylinder. They are set back a way from the base of the mesa bottom giving us about a 275 yard shot to the targets from the top of the mesa.

We usually shoot 22lr with various sights, open iron, scope and red dot. There is a very noticeable lag between report and hearing the strike of the round. On a given day the variance of windage adjustment makes the task fairly challenging. There is not much of a "lob" to the shot, usually aiming at the very top of the target takes care of elevation. It is the left to right adjustment that is tricky.

It proves an inexpensive challenge with immediate gratification to visitors and regulars alike. Each target has its own signature impact sound. The Ox cylinder rings like a bell, the water heater is a dull thunk and the propane cylinder is a dull thunk of a bell.

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[MooseToo]

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How BIG is your target?:)

DocSoos

i fire from a bluff edge aiming at a pond of about 3 acres -

[docsoos]

i fire from a bluff edge aiming at a pond of about 3 acres -

I probably couldn't hit that with a lever-action/iron sights. Need a scope these days (the old eyes ain't what they used to be!)

DocSoos

[MooseToo]

I probably couldn't hit that with a lever-action/iron sights. Need a scope these days (the old eyes ain't what they used to be!)

DocSoos

there's a lot of that going on these days, doc -

i was truly amazed what a difference it made when i had cataracts removed from both eyes - even without a scope - and i cannot even explain how the dawn/dusk situation improved - the loss of sight is so gradual that the instant improvement is mind-blowing -

[Kilroy]

Loaded question...
I'm a retired Army Sniper. I won't list those.:)

Hunting I would say 600 yards at a bull elk with a .308 150g Barnes bullet. He took two steps after impact and just laid down.

I was concerned that maybe I had a "puny" rifle for the elk, and the guide said it was the lightest they would allow, but it worked well. It's all in how they're shot and where they're shot.

Can't afford fun hunting trips like that now so it's 100 yards or less for whitetails on the farm...or groundhogs...coyotes...etc.

[MissouriFree]

Same as RPD .. expert with M14 in basic... what ever the longest was.

mofree

[DM]

I really don't believe in some of the long shots taken at game animals by folks on the net. I've spent thousands of hours on ranges sighting in rifles, working up loads, competition shooting, regulateing double rifles and combo's, and just plain practicing my own shooting at long range. I've seen all to many times how the general public shoots, and most can't hit a pie plate every shot at 100 yards, yet they will shoot at game animals at any range they see one!

I'd say for the average shooter 100 "honest" yards is long range! For me, anything over 200 is long range, but given the right circumstances, i can make a 300 yard shot. When i was "tuned up" for long range shooting, under the "right" conditions, 400 "honest" yards was possible...

Here's my longest shot at a big game animal,

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It was when i was doing my best long range shooting, practicing AT LEAST 4 days a week with my "hunting" rifle. The shot was at 350 yards, and the rifle was a Rem. 700 chambered in 7 Rem. Mag., loaded with two handloaded 140 NP's that went in the boiler room. I wouldn't take that shot today, and i have NO problem at all, watching a big game animal walk away...

DM

[OzarkMtnDaredevil]

You folks and your 1000 yard shots crack me up. My 'best shot ever' was with a 4" bbl Hi-Standard revolver and CCI Snakeshot at 10 yards. I only wanted to kill the copperhead but, it almost severed his head from the body. I still don't know how that shot could have held that tight of pattern at 10 yards.
He was quickly skinned and marinated in Worcestershire sauce and ice-water overnight.

[OzarkMtnDaredevil]

DM - by NP, are you meaning Nosler Partitions? Those are some of my fave in 7mm and 30 cal.

[hunter63]

I really don't believe in some of the long shots taken at game animals by folks on the net. I've spent thousands of hours on ranges sighting in rifles, working up loads, competition shooting, regulateing double rifles and combo's, and just plain practicing my own shooting at long range. I've seen all to many times how the general public shoots, and most can't hit a pie plate every shot at 100 yards, yet they will shoot at game animals at any range they see one!

I'd say for the average shooter 100 "honest" yards is long range! For me, anything over 200 is long range, but given the right circumstances, i can make a 300 yard shot. When i was "tuned up" for long range shooting, under the "right" conditions, 400 "honest" yards was possible...
It was when i was doing my best long range shooting, practicing AT LEAST 4 days a week with my "hunting" rifle. The shot was at 350 yards, and the rifle was a Rem. 700 chambered in 7 Rem. Mag., loaded with two handloaded 140 NP's that went in the boiler room. I wouldn't take that shot today, and i have NO problem at all, watching a big game animal walk away...

DM

10-4 on that I agree 100%

[Dawgus]

I'd have to say it was right around 200 yards with a 6mm, nothing all that impressive.Especially when you consider it was off a bipod with a 6.5-20x Leupold in a big open field. I never did much real long range shooting, there aren't any places to do much over 200yds, and not much of a call for it here in Ohio except the rare occasional groundhog.


DM I gotta agree with you 100% as well. I've had people tell me they got that deer at 200 yards with a 12 ga slug, then ask them to point out the same distance. It always ends up being 50-75, lol. We used to bore sight rifles with the sign in the donut shop door across the street, which a rangefinder read at exactly 95 yards. More times than I remember, folks always asked why I was using a target 200 yards away. I just smiled and let them take it home.

[flatwater]

My longest with a rifle was 300 yards ,paced off after the kill. It was a neck shot holding about a foot over the neck with a 30/40 criag that belonged to my grandpa. Probably a lucky shot. I do mostly black powder now and a fifty yard shot is my longest so far.

[docsoos]

I was hoping that this forum (firearms) would not be permeated by the same brand of BS that seems to be so prevalent in the political/current events and freedom/rights forums, but I see it didn't take long for the naysayers to pop up here, making wisecracks about how anybody's long shots are total internet BS.

Just because a poster does not feel they are capable of making an extreme long shot, does not mean that nobody else is. The original poster asked how long someone's longest shot was, and after a few people posted, the "you internet posters' long shots crack me up" comments came out. And, the original poster agreed with them, 100%, to boot. Why ask the question, when you feel anyone making a claim to achieving such a shot is a liar?

I have spent untold $$$ as a civilian, and countless hours in the field and on ranges (military years ago, and civilian ever since) for the better part of 30 years, and honed my skills, not to mention a substantial investment in equipment, to where I feel I can confidently engage a target at long ranges, depending on the weapon, ammunition quality, and conditions. Not that I regularly do so, but I have on some rare occasions, and the training and practice paid off.

Short of posting one's DD214 on-line, or some supporting video or corroborating witnesses, I guess everything anyone says here can be taken as bovine fecal matter. I'd invite any of you to a range, to prove who's shooting skills are superior, but that would not be practical. And I would enjoy such a proving, and would not shy from it one bit.

How predictable, and how truly sad, that even some of the "gun people" have turned on each other. There's more of us gunowners than the liberals believe, but there's not so many that we can divide and ridicule over BS posts like this one. I guess the Weekend-Warrior Rambo's (that haven't seen any active military time other than Basic and a two-week FTX) and the Shut-In Google Searchers are more knowledgable than those who can actually achieve what they say, not just regurgitate something they read on the 'net, and fantasize about what it would be like to actually achieve something remarkable.

The saddest part of all of this, is when somebody drops in here that has little or no experience with firearms, and are looking for some knowledge and/or help, and witness the bickering and ridicule, they think that what the liberal media has been telling them about gun owners must be true, after all.

I can post pictures, too:

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This small ten-point buck was purchased by me on E-Bay, and it was shot with a PhotoShop-ed Remington Model 742 Woodsmaster .30-'06, that just happened to have a Leupold Vari-X III 3.5x-10x scope drawn on it, along with a very life-like scan of a Bell & Carlson Kevlar stock blended into the picture. You can't see very clearly the handloaded 150-grain Nosler Ballistic-Tip (IMR 4350 powder) cartridges I drew into the removed magazine resting on the gun sleeve to my right, but rest assured, I drew them in there, because I don't have a lot of time to be out in the field, when I spend so much time telling lies at the keyboard.

Oh, and by the way, this was an approximately 145-yard shot, ANOTHER ridge-to-ridge one, but I might as well have said the shot was 2500 yards, for all it would be believed.

You guys need to get a life.

DocSoos

[Mr.B]

With a rifle M16a2, 300 meters iron sights.

Longest? Id say 2000 meters? But that was with a M242 Bushmaster on the Bradley APC.


-B

[Kilroy]

DocSoos...love ya brother!

You're welcome on my range any day.

[hunter63]

I was hoping that this forum (firearms) would not be permeated by the same brand of BS that seems to be so prevalent in the political/current events and freedom/rights forums, but I see it didn't take long for the naysayers to pop up here, making wisecracks about how anybody's long shots are total internet BS.

Just because a poster does not feel they are capable of making an extreme long shot, does not mean that nobody else is. The original poster asked how long someone's longest shot was, and after a few people posted, the "you internet posters' long shots crack me up" comments came out. And, the original poster agreed with them, 100%, to boot. Why ask the question, when you feel anyone making a claim to achieving such a shot is a liar?

You guys need to get a life.

DocSoos

Actually, when I first posted the question, my goal was to see how many people actually did the work with their firearm and home work at the range before shooting long range. Especially at game, and what they considered a reasonable range for success.

So, Doc, I sorry you feel this way, but I still agree, that a lot of posting are BS.

You have done you homework, did the work on your firearms and practiced, and the results show. You are to be congratulated.

Unfortunately, I sure you agree that there is a lot of people that don't really know where their firearm shoots, what the ballistics are, what the range really is, but that doesn't stop them from taking a "well maybe" shot.
I sure that is where the negative comments are aimed.
Up to you ...............

My life is just fine, thank you.

[docsoos]

Hunter63:

Apparently, I misconstrued your intentions when you agreed with the other poster who was "cracking up". My apologies.

However, most reasonable, intelligent people would have construed it in that way. If one asks a question, then agrees with somebody else that is ridculing the answerer, with no proof one way or the other whether they are "telling the truth" or not, common courtesy would demand that, unless what that person is claiming is absolutely ludicrous, or until they are disproven, what they are claiming is indeed factual. The two long shots I posted were VERY believeable, for a trained marksman. Ask any real ex-military sniper, police sniper, or proven game hunter if they are indeed makeable shots. Guess I need to "clarify and quantitate" my answers better in the future.

And I agree, I have run across my share of "Internet Rambos", and there are a few here at BHM, also. Maybe I do have "thin skin" when some clown posts that he does not believe that somebody is indeed telling the truth. But, such is the nature of the world, and the Internet, today. I can't believe that I let some idiot posting on this forum get to me with his snide comments, especially when he probably doesn't know which end of a weapon is the dangerous end, but modern weaponry is one of the few things that I take deadly serious in my life.

Let's leave the bickering for the political forums, eh?;)

DocSoos

[DM]

Hunter63:

Apparently, I misconstrued your intentions when you agreed with the other poster who was "cracking up". My apologies.

However, most reasonable, intelligent people would have construed it in that way. If one asks a question, then agrees with somebody else that is ridculing the answerer, with no proof one way or the other whether they are "telling the truth" or not, common courtesy would demand that, unless what that person is claiming is absolutely ludicrous, or until they are disproven, what they are claiming is indeed factual. The two long shots I posted were VERY believeable, for a trained marksman. Ask any real ex-military sniper, police sniper, or proven game hunter if they are indeed makeable shots. Guess I need to "clarify and quantitate" my answers better in the future.

And I agree, I have run across my share of "Internet Rambos", and there are a few here at BHM, also. Maybe I do have "thin skin" when some clown posts that he does not believe that somebody is indeed telling the truth. But, such is the nature of the world, and the Internet, today. I can't believe that I let some idiot posting on this forum get to me with his snide comments, especially when he probably doesn't know which end of a weapon is the dangerous end, but modern weaponry is one of the few things that I take deadly serious in my life.

Let's leave the bickering for the political forums, eh?;)

DocSoos

Heck, i'm still trying to figure out if your "last" post (not your quote here) was aimed at me? I didn't laugh at anyone, nor did i call anyone a lier. And the only ridicule i saw, was YOU at hunter...and i haven't seen any bickering, where did that happen??

Anyway, i stated my opinion that i don't believe in some of the long shots, as i believe our big game animals deserve more respect than that. Thats how i feel, and i stand by it.

It's amazing you got so upset over the whole thread in the first place, and if you reread it, you will see YOU are the only one that did! Heck in your last post, you even resorted to name calling!

DM

[docsoos]

You folks and your 1000 yard shots crack me up.

I really don't believe in some of the long shots taken at game animals by folks on the net.

I've seen all to many times how the general public shoots, and most can't hit a pie plate every shot at 100 yards, yet they will shoot at game animals at any range they see one!

I'd say for the average shooter 100 "honest" yards is long range!

DM

10-4 on that I agree 100%

Not to beat the proverbial dead horse here, but the timing after 4 or 5 people posted their long shots, these posts came up, as stated above. The inference was clearly there.

DocSoos

[hunter63]

Well, boys, hopefully we can get past this, what ever you call it, as I am still interested in hearing about y'all longest shots.
I interested me because of the thread about the "Longest shot in Afghanistan", so I was curious.

Weapon, used, load, (factory/hand load),as near as you can estimate, range, target hold, etc, would be good start.
It always intrested me in what was aimmed at, at long distance.

Target,--Paper, gong, bowling pins, 55 gal drums, or what ever for practice @ what range.
Game shooting, when you have a good feeling about hitting what your shooting at@what range.

Personally, I won't attempt a game shot unless I have a good expectation of making it.
Don't like wounding animals, or walking all the way down a mountain, back up the other side to check if I hit something or not.
Passed up some elk shots in Colorado, for this reason.

Pull the trigger, take the responsibility.
Kinda like posting something here...........
What do y'all say?

[rice paddy daddy]

DocSoos...love ya brother!

You're welcome on my range any day.
I'll second that.
And you're right, the internet is full of gunstore commandos and chairborne rangers.

[Teg]

Weapon, used, load, (factory/hand load),as near as you can estimate, range, target hold, etc, would be good start.
It always intrested me in what was aimmed at, at long distance.

Target,--Paper, gong, bowling pins, 55 gal drums, or what ever for practice @ what range.

Pull the trigger, take the responsibility.
Kinda like posting something here...........
What do y'all say?

I once hit an old tank at close to a mile with a M-2 .50 Cal while training at Ft Dix. ;)

I agree with ya on taking responsibility for what you post, but we all probably know folks that will exaggerate right to your face as well, I had a kid that worked for me claim he once caught an arrow out of mid-air, never could get him to attempt a repeat of that trick though. ;):)

[jim]

Most of my big game shots have been around 100-125 yards, as it's pretty easy around here to get that close. I've hit tin cans at 100 yds with a pistol, and rabbits ar 50 with same.

Best shot: 10 ft with a .22 LR. A bass jumped for a bug and I centered him. I was 16, shot witnessed by cousin and was pretty fast in those days. Repeatable? Not by me.
Best rabbit: 200 yds with a .22 rifle, standing shot.
Best silhouett; 1200 meters and a head shot. over 200 witnesses plus Battalion Commander. However, I was using an M68 105MM tank main gun.{;^) Still, that was a good shot at that range.
Best bird: Pheasant at 8 yrd using an issue M1911a1 .45.
Misses: full military silhouett at 5 yds (pistol), wild dog at 15yds rifle, deer at 10yds (pistol), deer at 10 yds rifle.

So, I've done some great shooting and some poor shooting. {:^)

jim

[hunter63]

LOL, I hear ya, I think we all have had both the open butt shots, and the "what just happened?" shots.

Won a Remington 7400 auto-loader 30-06 in a raffle.
New, came with scope, case sling etc.

Well, worked with the scope till I was satisfied with where it shot, took it hunting.
Small fork buck walked in behind me, dragging a almost shot off front foot.
So I though I would take him, as he probably wouldn't make the winter.

Eased around, made the shot at about 20 ft, right in the shoulder, and he just took off.
Didn't take a second shot as I was so surprised that he didn't drop, I mean, come on, 180 gr cor-loc at 20 ft?
By the time I got my wits back, also realized I was pulling on the fore arm, felt so much like my 870's, hadn't shot too many auto-loaders, was trying to chamber by pumping, so never got another shot.
Watched him run, full tilt boogie up hill, tail up, and no indication he had been hit.( and away from the truck)

Walked to the spot, no blood, no cut hair, nothing.
Started after him, walked about 2-300 hundred yds, still no blood.
Could not believe I had missed?
Was gonna shoot at a pine snag just to check the scope, but didn't.

Started walking in circles, finally found a speck of blood, started following, more blood, then over the crest of the hill, found him deader than snot.

Shot had perfed thru, clipped the wind pipe, so not much outside blood, but still put it down.
Total distance he ran was about 7-800 yds.

Makes me wonder how many " misses" weren't really misses?

[OzarkMtnDaredevil]

I am truely sorry if my dry sense of humor in any way upset any member(s) of this forum.
It's gotten me in trouble many times before in the 'real world'. I'm not changing!

The story of the snake was true in its entirety. If you want to hear about a prairie dog dropped at 400 yrd with a 22-250, forget it.

Here's hoping that your Catfish Bait doesn't loose its stench. :-)

[jim]

A bit off topic, but I once shot a six pointer at under 20 yds with a .44 Mag Marlin. Not a drop of blood anywhere that I could find where he dissappeared in the thick brush near Buda Texas. After waiting the obligatory 15 mins, my uncle and myself started looking for him. Found the carcass about 125 yards away near a creek bank. I found by back tracking the heavy blood trail that he had started pouring blood like a garden hose just a few feet past where I could penetrate the brush. The 240 gr. JHP had exploded and pulversiced the lings and part of the heart. The thorasic cavity was full of blood. Slug impact was 1/2" off my aiming point.

jim

[Rick]

I once hit a target at 10 miles with a 5"/54. 75 lb projectile - AAC.

Of course, I had a tad bit of help from the Fire Control people.

[Teg]

I once hit a target at 10 miles with a 5"/54. 75 lb projectile - AAC.

Of course, I had a tad bit of help from the Fire Control people.

Just think of Fire Control as your scope. :lol:

[jim]

I once hit a target at 10 miles with a 5"/54. 75 lb projectile - AAC.

Of course, I had a tad bit of help from the Fire Control people.

that's a really great gun isn't it? Naval gunfire rocks!

jim

[rice paddy daddy]

that's a really great gun isn't it? Naval gunfire rocks!

jim
You got that right! The New Jersey left station just before I got to Injun Country, but the boys told me the rounds sounded like a freight train going over. Those 5 inchers on a destroyer were enough, I couldn't even imagine a 16 incher.:D

[huckelberry]

500 yards on a whitetail,ruger #1 7MM 140 grain nosler ....leopold 3x9....crosshairs 48 inches over his back.bout 24 inches windage,double lung shot....oh yea i had a broke arm and was useing the cast as a rest,prone of course....would never shoot at that range....except...my idiot hunting partner shot and the buck kicked his heels like he was hit.i dont recemend most folks doin that tho....oh yea the normal marine stuff...m 16 a2 500 meters...10 shots prone 10 bulls eyes....every time...3rd bttn high shooter...long ago and far away....

[Pitdog]

320 yards on a whitetail doe, .280 Remington in a Ruger set in a hand made thumbhole stock 140 gr Sierra with 4350 behind it, don't know how much. Simmons Whitetail II scope on 12 power. Laser range finder and witness certified, shot once, she arched forward, fell, got up made it twenty yards and fell again for good.
788, 22 250 3 to 9 Swify scope, groundhog, 259 yards, waxed with a heart shot, standing up facing me watching the gate to the field. Witness certified, laser range found.
Tennis Ball on top of 4 ft tall pvc, 600 meters, killed 2 out of 7. 24'' 6.5 Grendel, factory 123 Lapua, Swarovski scope, witnessed on a 600 meter range,

[Dslayer66]

385 yds with .270 700BDL on whitetail doe with 4 witnesses. At BIL farm, had sighted in two weeks prior at very same location at 100, 200, and 400 yds. This deer stood 15 yds shy of our 400 yd target. I had grouped at around 5 inches during practice, holding 18" high. I believe I used 130 grain factory Winchester ammo. I saw the deer flinch and was sure she was hit. When I went to the spot, she was no where to be found and searched for 1 1/2 hours before going back to the spot, stood up on the 4-wheeler and ther she lay. About 10yds from the very spot.

Would have never have tried this shot had I not sighted in at that very location just two weeks prior, had a very good rest, and plenty of time. The scope, btw, was Bushnell Elite 3x9, set at 5.

Have another 700 SPS in .204 Ruger. Both are 1 1/2 moa guns. Both have 3 lb triggers.