Tominator Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 OK, it's been done before, and could apply to numerous rooms here at RT, so I'll put it here in the lounge. What's the best shot you ever put on an animal? Break it down if you want: bow, varmint, small game, etc. Maybe this will soothe the down time between the hunting seasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? Off-hand, 125 yards, 308, broke the neck on a 140 class buck! He never heard the bang! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dedicatedmarine Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? for bow, i'd rather take out both lungs than take a heart shot, they don't run nearly as far, My best shot was when i dropped my biggest buck at 18 yards with the bow, man was I shakin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? My best shot without a doubt had to be this one .... 30+ yards with the bow on this Grouse,, when me and my father were outback practicing ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beagleboy Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? My best shot was at a rabbit being chased by my beagles at approx 50 yrds with a #7 1/2 shellin my Browning sweet sixteen. I just rolled him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DU_man_84 Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? id have to say my best shot would be one day i was out target practicing with my bow and i was shooting good and seen a black bird on the ground and just for fun i tried to see if i could hit it, well i put an arrow right through it, and stepped it off at 26 yds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? I threw a rock at a running rabbit as a kid...and killed it. We were walking down a path and the rabbit spooked and took off running. Couldn't do it again if I lived to be 1,000,000 years old. It was witnessed by my brother and 2 of my cousins. Not proud of it at all though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimPic Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? My brother and I were at the archery range shooting our recurves at the 20yd line when I saw a groundhog out of the corner of my eye at about 40yds,right when i was getting ready to shoot at the target.I swung over on it,drew,anchored and released and as soon as that arrow went off-I knew I was going to hit it.The chuck turned a little bit and I caught him right in front of his back leg and quartered it into him.The hog flipped up in the air then laid there for about 5 seconds before getting up and running to his hole--with my arrow still in him.I went after the hog to get my arow back and there he was at this hole-dead.I got a good 8" into him with just a field point and the shot was paced off at 42yds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogdoc Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? goose hunting---2 shots 3 geese. BTW--missed with my first shot but limited out with the next two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? Probably my 300+ yard shot on a doe with my 30-06. It was late doe season when I was 15 years old. My uncle and I were hunting together and right at dark about 25 deer stepped out into the picked corn field. You could just make out their shilouettes with the foot or so of snow we had. Where the deer came out nobody had ever attempted a shot it was so far away. But I decided to take a crack at it. I found one big doe offering a perfect broadside shot so I told my uncle I was going to try the shot. He says " go for it" with a smirk on his face doubting my abilities. I settled the crosshairs right where they needed to be and squeezed the shot off. All the deer took off except one which lay dead in its tracks. This deer didnt fall one way or the other...it went right straight down on its belly and a perfectly placed shot right behind the shoulder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dartonman Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? 300 yard shot, red fox...old Winchester Model 88 in .243 caliber...........probably never make that shot again.....al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan1990 Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? With a gun it was on a 6 point buck at 235 yards at dusk. On the way back to the truck and I decided to check one more spot. I walked down into a valley and he was standing up ontop of a ridge facing me. I dropped to one knee and hit him right in the neck with my 30-06 and he dropped and didnt get back up. With a bow it would be this: http://www.realtree.com/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1204648/an/0/page/0#Post1204648 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? So many awesome shots I can't even begin to tell them all to you. None of mine even compare to one I watched my dad make about 10 years ago. He was shooting at a whitetail buck standing broadside. Dad had just made 350 yards through the woods in 8 inches of wet snow as fast as he could go. Laying in the snow, with his Ruger .300 Mag over a piece of oak firewood he shot inches low of the brisket on the first shot. I called it for him. He worked the bolt and put the 2nd shot through the front shoulders. It was a measured & verified 665 yards!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiobuckhunter Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? man those are some pretty impresive and looooong shoots i will never shoot over 150 yards their is just to much that can go wrong and to much ground to cover i'd rather be safe than sorry every year people get shot up here because of crazy deer fever people. jmo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? LOL................when I was 12 I blew the head off a grasshopper with a pellet gun at about 20 yards. No joke. But for big game it would have to be shooting a doe thru the neck at 75 yards while she was running. Dropped her in her tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig mack Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? I was in a enclosed blind on top of a ridge. I heard something behind me at the bottom of the ridge. It was a 9 point, so I stuck my head and rifle out the side window and made a 75 yard shot on him. Half my body was hanging out and I was surprised I didnt fall out on my face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? That would be a doe I killed in Texas. Approximately 100 yards with my friend's 30-30 TC pistol. After he had missed one a lot closer (and me ragging him about it) he bet I couldn't kill that doe with his pistol. He shouldn't have bet me. He was speachless afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dg Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? My best shot ended up (after 15 years so far) being my 1st bow-kill deer in 1992. It was a velvet spike at 28 yards quartering away. The heart had been pinwheeled by a Muzzy 100 grain 3-blade. The buck ran 40 yards and nose-dived into the ground dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? Not sure Chris, situations are different. Could have been the shot that the wife never believed could have been made on a deer between a couple trees in 2003. Was only about a 75 yard shot with the rifle, but there was just a few inches between the trees that were leaning towards each other to squeeze the shot through. Or maybe this years shot at 220 yards. Or maybe a shot standing shooting freehand on a deer at just short of 100 yards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? Other than my pistol shot, probably my best rifle shot would be the 300 yard shot I pulled off with my 30-378 Wby Mag. I was walking out around 11:00 with a couple of buddies in Louisiana when we jumped 5 bucks including a nice 11 point. The deer stopped out at a distance and the other 2 guys fired but both missed him. After they shot, I steadied my aim against a tree and dropped him with one shot. Best bow shot is a mulie I killed in Wyoming on a spot and stalk hunt. I shot him for being 60 yards hitting him right in the heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? Shotgun deer season couple years back. Climbed into my stand. Stupid neighbors started their world war II in the fields (they chase deer all over and take running shots at them). Few minutes pass and I see a deer through the trees making his towards me. He's just meandering along and I watch him through the scope. He veers to the right out in front of me on a trail. I've got one opening at the distance he's at for a shot. I've got maybe a foot between two trees to aim through. Buck stops, I think heh ad a scrape there, I put the cross hairs on him and BOOM! He drops in his tracks. One shot, through a small space between trees - a 60-70 yard shot. He ended up also having a shot wound in his neck, I think from the neighbors..looked a day old or so. He was a 6 point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted April 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? Waiting to hear my buddy Tom's exploits. Where are you Thomas. I know you're not one to brag, but give a brotha a story, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohiobucks Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? [ QUOTE ] Waiting to hear my buddy Tom's exploits. Where are you Thomas. I know you're not one to brag, but give a brotha a story, eh? [/ QUOTE ] Wow, there have been sooo many great shots, where to start? Maybe that doe in Illinois a few years back? Or my buck this year? Those are in the top 5, no question. I would have to say it would have been my first muzzleloader deer, back 10 years ago. I was using my grandpas Traditions Pennsylvania rifle that was more like a solid steel spud bar, about 12 lbs and 6 feet long. I was walking though the woods, there was some wet snow on the ground, which made it very quiet. I was walking along a river and rounded a small knoll, and there stood a small 8 pointer. We saw each other at the same time and he bolted as I shouldered the gun. I swung through him and touched off the shot. I never saw the deer after I shot because of the huge plume of smoke. I reloaded as fast as I could and walked in the direction the deer was running when I shot. I got to the small bank going down to the river and there laid a big DOE! A DOE?? No way did I just shoot a doe! I looked down and almost between my boots was the bucks antlers, planted in the ground. You could see from the tracks in the snow that the deer did a somersault when I hit it in the neck, he did a face plant and lost it's antlers, and was stone dead before it slid to a stop. The buck was about 40 yards from me, running at a pretty good clip. I think that I was more lucky than good that day..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? The 8 pointer I have hanging on my wall was not running too fast and about a 125 yards in the mountain. He was below the second bench of the mountain. I had him in my scope, and all I said was, a head shot. I fired one shot from my 270 just before he ran behind a group of trees. He just disappeared! Call my father on the radio and said I shot. He was coming up to my tree while I went down to see if I hit him. I was certain that at the range in the mountain all I hit was a tree! Just as I got down to about where I thought he was, I saw a deer with its legs up in the air. Then they relaxed, as I walked over I realized I shot him in the left eye! He never went any farther than three feet! Once my father got to my tree, he agreed that it was over 100 yards, but under 150 yards! Ill probably never make that kind of shot again in my life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Re: Your Best Shot? Tom's muzzleloader story reminded me of my muzzleloader hunt in New Mexico back in the fall of 2001. I shared that hunt here on RT back in 2002. I'll be brief this time though. There were 5 bulls in the meadow below us. I picked out the NT that had 3 main beams. Guide called out the range at 167 yards on the 1st shot but my bull didn't go down with that one but he sure was moving real slow from the hit. I quickly reloaded and hit him the 2nd time at 174 yards. Still not down but he's moving a little faster now toward the tree line. Quickly reload again...next shot 224 yards. He hits the dirt. The guide with my buddy calls my guide on the radio wanting to know what the heck is going on. I reload again just in case. We didn't move till the other guide made the 1/2 mile hike to us while we sat and watched my bull. He gets there and low and behold my bull gets up again. I shoot but looked like a high shot. My bull, real sick now, just stands there while I reload and fire again at 225 yards...neck shot hit now and he's down for good. Good thing too...I was down to only 2 loaders left in my pocket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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