What was your most memorable shot?

[ZekeZX10]

I don't know about most impressive but this was my favorite. This rock squirrel was running on a narrow ledge on a rock face for a min while I watched and waited for him to stop. He never paused long so I didn't think I would actually get a shot, looked like he was on a mission to get somewhere. Finally after watching him run about 40-50 yards he took a long breather so I got my chance....and he wound up in my stew

90 yard headshot on Rock Squirrel...another one for the stew!

90 Yard Head Shot Rock Squirrel Vulcan 3 700mm 30 cal 54gn Thor Press slug @ 976 fps

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[daddypaddy]

hip fire my tokyo marui p90 airsoft gun to get a headshot on a carpenter bee. bee was 4-5 yards away lol

 

[Kiang]

I shot a quarter at 100 yards with open sights with a 2240.

 

[Springrrrr]

Lit a strike anywhere match at 40 yards with my Wolverine R and again with the Red Wolf.

 

[Tumblinginflight]

Woods walking as a kid, buddy and I startled a squirrel that decided to run diagonally toward us for some reason. At about 8yds, I hit it on the run with a scoped break barrel pellet rifle. DRT. I cannot imagine I used the glass; must have reaction pointed. Either way I’m sure it was all skill.

 

[dens228]

I'd have to go with four shots, four raccoons in a matter of minutes.
They were in a tree, 35 yards from me and about 30 to 40 feet up, dark of night and I had an attached red predator light on my Maverick.
All head shots, all fell without a peep to within a couple of feet of each other.
My first thought was great! I got all four of the varmits. My second thought was, I wish I had filmed those shots. Now I have a Zulus..........lol

 

[Chief Ten-Beers]

I remember the old saying: "You can beat skill, but you can't beat luck"! lol

 

[WorriedMan]

Crow calling in woods behind house, stalked to under 25 yards but large branch fully obscured. At each call crow's head briefly appeared above branch before dropping back out of view. Timed calls and fired at nothing, head popped up in time for JSB 18.1 grain to connect. Taipan Veteran's sweet trigger much to thank, as anything. WM

 

[Caliber 22]

Woods walking as a kid, buddy and I startled a squirrel that decided to run diagonally toward us for some reason. At about 8yds, I hit it on the run with a scoped break barrel pellet rifle. DRT. I cannot imagine I used the glass; must have reaction pointed. Either way I’m sure it was all skill.

Almost like what happened many moons back. I was driving the bakkie with a few friends with their .22LRs on the back. We saw a hare and they started shooting but every shot was a miss. The hare was for some reason running towards the bakkie. I jumped out with my LR shouting "shoot the damn thing" and just pointed my LR and fired. One dead hare. Everybody laughed, mostly because of embarrassment.

 

[Sawney Bean]

Starling at around 115 yards with an S410E. At the time I had been doing a lot of long range shooting with it and had it's trajectory perfectly plotted and had a laser range finder with me. I remember my dad telling me there was no way I could make that shot, but a little cloud of feathers appeared behind it and it dropped off of the branch it had been sitting on.

 

[dv8eod]

Playing around in the field next to our house when I was about 11 or 12 with my little old Daisy 102 shooting weed heads as fast as I could. Saw a bumblebee about 45 feet away, and when it took off to head to the next flower, I cocked and fired knocking it's wings off in one piece. Did it in the blink of an eye.
A few decades later, I was showing my daughter how to shoot. Was telling her the story of the bumblebee and to demonstrate what I was talking about, I put out the X on the target almost perfectly centered at about 30 feet. She still has that target somewhere.
When we were kids, we came up with our own version of the QuickSkill/QuickKill program. The gun is a lot older now and the spring needs replacing, but it's as reliable now as it ever was. Even with all the abuse it went through. Sure wish they were still made like that today.

 

[KWK]

I forget.........

 

[mr. earl]

I have three most memorable shots. First is when Larry Irby and I were 16 and shooting doves. WE were driving around country roads in his 48 Chysler and I was on the passenger side fender with my model 12 shooting them when they flew off the wires. Two flew off and I got both. Larry hit the brakes and I went off of the fender rolling down the side of the road and my model 12 never hit the ground. The second was when Larry and I went squirrel hunting. We just got into the woods and I saw a bee tree across a holler. I raised my rifle to shoot the tree and Larry told me not to shoot it because the bees would come after us. I told him they would not know where it came from and fired a shot. One bee flew across the holler and stung Larry right between the eyes. My MOST memorable shot was in 1973 when Doc Evans gave me a shot in the a$$ for the clap with a syringe the size of a tire pump!!

 

[Peashooter]

Lately i shot over a nettle at 130 yards in the first shot, that did give goosebumps as i had just been shooting a lot at a 1 inch wide branch and trimmed that down quite a bit but also missing a bit on that, in the following session it also fell after 50 - 80 more shots of the 13 grain Zans.

But cutting the top few inches off a nettle at that distance, i think it must be like splitting a playing card even if a nettle are a few mm thicker.
for a damn .177 i think that was pretty cool.

 

[Iowa Airgunner]

It was my last day shooting with my Friends at the DIFTA group in Damascus Maryland before I had to move away.

I had just come back from the 2015 nationals and was shooting well.

It was a fun shoot and we were shooting eggs and lifesavers and soda cans. Someone walked down and set up a bunch of targets including a shelf with soda cans. I picked up my TX200 off hand loaded it and shot the center can just nicking the cans side. That sent a spray of soda out the side and the can going in the other direction . Clearing the shelf like a strike with a billing ball.

I just put my gun away.

 

[Arzrover]

There are quite a few... since I've been going at it pretty hard since the late 70s.

I have 2 that come to mind first...
I was pretty decent offhand when a lot younger. only shot offhand with open or peep sights. I was plinking with a friend and shooting a RX in 177. A dove landed in a tree about 75 yds away and my friend challenged me to hit it. I held over what I thought might be right and let fly... it seemed like an eternity for the pellet to get there but that guy fell straight down without a flutter... pure luck, I know but still...
The second I was shooting Wally, my 22 Red Wolf from my bench, practicing for a match. A young coyote came down the wash beneath my bench and when he got near me, must have smelled me and turned and trotted straight away. I was checking zero @ 30 and that fella stopped there and turned his head back toward me. I put 1 right behind the eye and he dropped straight down with the most minor of twitch. After about 10 minutes I had moved out to 100 and was drilling the 10 ring when a second and older one came from the other side and same thing, sensed me as he approached the 50 yd target, then turned and ran straight away... where he stopped by the 100 yd and looked back. I was already on him and as soon as he turned, put one right behind the eye. When I went to pick them up, both were right behind the eye and went through the whole skull. Both dropped straight down with little twitch...

Bob

 

[Arkansas_Airgunner]

I was in the back yard zeroing a new scope on my .457 CF Texan one day, and a black bird decided to land on top of my target....well what do you do with a target of opportunity like that? Yep....PEW! Aimed center mass expecting to see an awesome explosion of feathers and such, but much to my dismay, none of that happened......I mean sure it stiffened up and fell off my target, but I thought I just scared the s*** out of it. So I walked my 50 yrds to see it and I couldn't believe what I saw.....I had blown its head clean off! Couldn't help but be mystified and then laugh my skinny a** off. 1 shot I will not forget anytime soon.

 

[delooper]

I suppose it's a variant of the clean "lights out" shot. But if they're way up in a tree when it happens, usually a big tumble follows and it's pretty dramatic. There's the occasional less-interesting one where they just slump over in the tree and you have to wait for another predator to clean up the mess.

 

[cavedweller]

Every now and then a person do a shot or group of shots he will never forget. Sometimes out of pure luck and other times because of practice.

The one I will never forget was when I was a youngster. A pair of doves was siting in a tree about 50 meter from me. I used my Gecado (Diana) mod.27 I had then and held it like a pistol with one hand, shooting the one dove. The other dove flew in a circle and came back to sit in the same tree. By that time the rifle was ready and I aimed the same way with one hand. That dove also fell with the shot and I had two doves with two shots.

Today shooting my TM1000 pistol <12 fpe in .20 cal, knocking down the field targets at 58 yards using sticks and a bucket

 

[Dairyboy]

My most memorable shot was the first time I shot my first PCP. My .22 Mrod. Was so surprised by how quiet it was compared to the pellet hitting the target. All down hill real fast after that lol