Your most memorable shot

[lenweber2]

So far on a belding ground squirrel at 125 yards with a FX Crown in .22 with a 500mm barrel and NightForce scope at 14x with JSB 18.13 at 870 fps. What made it special was, just topped a rise and spotted the squirrel. Did a WAG for wind and hold over rested for the shot bang flop legs up kicking. WOW that is cool as I was patting my self on the back not 10 seconds after the shot a red tail hawk lands and has breakfast. Now a little sweeter is this hawk kept watch on me for the next two weeks ,must have been a male, as it wood pickup a couple and take them to it's mate then wait for me to have his warm meal. I feed him and his mate for the next two weeks befor we headed home.

Now tell me your turn, love to hear these stories.

 

[sonny]

I was at a friends property in north Florida shooting my then new .25 FX Bobcat. and at an estimated 80 yards I shot a banana spider. It just disappeared from sight. I walked over and found its 8 legs around the perimeter of its web. 

 

[TNT19]

102 yards using a kral puncher breaker in 22 cal using jsb 18.1 gr at 920 fps. Antelope ground squirrel about 3.5 inches tall. 

 

[Ranchibi]

Ground squirrel, 62yds off my knee, downhill 17 degree decline and I could only see his forehead eyes and ears looking str8 at me with a Brocock Compatto .22....hit him in the forehead and saw the helicopter tail dance. That and a friend and I shot the same starling at the same time..pop, pop! LOL!

 

[cahil_2]

Crow at a lasered 138 yards. Impact mk1 500 mm barrel and 18.1 jsb at about 880 fps. There was no wind and I guessed 10 mil dot holdover, pulled the trigger and he dropped like a rock. Pure luck!

 

[mercado]

.22 cricket compact - arken optics 4x14x44 shooting NSA 17.5 g slugs 3 shot on a dove . 210y first 2 missed holding for wind I realized that the wind wasn't that much 3 shoot hold straight on top of the bird place the bird on the top of the arrow on the bottom of the reticle..no more bird.

 

[Gerry52]

Not the longest I ever made but one of the most gratifying. Trying Hades .25 for the 1st time in my Royale 500. Saw a ground squirrel scurry in its hole but 1 ear & the top 1/2" of its skull showed. NAILED it @ 92 yards threading the shot through small openings in many layers of shrubbery. Luckily Nick (Socaloldman) was with me to witness it. VERY gratifying! 

 

[FelixS]

Bird at 102 yards, offhand on third shot with a .30 cal Impact MKII; this was a couple of months ago. Previous to that, about 45 years ago, a shiny tin can about 100 yards with a Benjamin pump .177. Yes, both lucky shots, but memorable.

 

[cea1960]

Last fall I introduced a hunting buddy to airguns by letting him use my PCP while I used my Benji Trail NP2. He took 3 squirrels from the same tree with 3 consecutive shots in the first half hour. Several hours went by and I was struggling to even spot a squirrel, when he pointed one out high up in a tree 56 yards away, and said it was all mine with a bit of a snicker. I raised the gun up, took a deep breath and a guess as to the holdover, (no mildots) before squeezing the mushy trigger and watching as the squirrel recoiled and dropped drt. My buddy looked at me with a WTF expression as I slung the rifle over my shoulder and said, let's go collect that squirrel.

 

[SDellinger]

Five with one shot at 76 yards.

 

[lenweber2]

OMG that is so cool, I've gotten 4 ground squirrel babies but the video proof "YAH".

 

[DanielL]

So far on a belding ground squirrel at 125 yards with a FX Crown in .22 with a 500mm barrel and NightForce scope at 14x with JSB 18.13 at 870 fps. What made it special was, just topped a rise and spotted the squirrel. Did a WAG for wind and hold over rested for the shot bang flop legs up kicking. WOW that is cool as I was patting my self on the back not 10 seconds after the shot a red tail hawk lands and has breakfast. Now a little sweeter is this hawk kept watch on me for the next two weeks ,must have been a male, as it wood pickup a couple and take them to it's mate then wait for me to have his warm meal. I feed him and his mate for the next two weeks befor we headed home.

Now tell me your turn, love to hear these stories.

126 yards on a pest bird for me...ranged with the onboard laser on the ATN 4K Pro scope. The scope also automatically calculated the POI change. He flew from my feeder and to a tree branch. Shot with .25 FX Impact and 44 gr. JSB's.

BTW. I've got a hawk coming around to the sound of my pellet rifle and picking up birds. We have developed a relationship. One thing you need to be careful about is leaving lead in the animal. Raptors have very strong stomach acids which is why they eat the whole thing...bones and all...and any lead pellets that are in there. Those strong stomach acids makes them very susceptible to lead poisoning. It isn't an issue with the birds I shoot because the pellets blow right through...but at further ranges or if one uses expanding projectiles it can be an issue...especially with squirrels and their tough hides that can stop pellet exits. I take out chipmunks with a low powered airgun and the pellet often is just under the skin on the other side. If I don't see an exit wound I will open it up and remove the pellet before leaving it for a meal. They are usually easy to find, just under the skin on the opposite side.

 

[JimNM]

I wiped out a nest of young ground squirrels over about 10 mins. There was a heavey branch sticking up nearly vertical from a pile of brush. I had set up with the bipod about 35 yards away and let the scene settle for a few minutes before I started the angry squirrel call on my phone app. Almost instantly, a juvie GS raced across the junk pile to climb out on the "look out" tower branch. He was met with a 28.5g domed greeting to the neck/shoulder joint. On his way down to Terra firma, another GS passed the original target on the way up to the look out perch. This scene repeated 6 times. Hardly had the perch been cleared off before another eager young GS was racing up the branch to checkout the commotion. I laughed to myself about the pile of bodies at the base of the tower. The new comers had to crawl over and around the increasing barricade, but they never seemed to notice. It was like watching a bad horror movie. 

 

[douger]

I had just got my 22 wildcat, 50 yards on the money then I seen a black bird on the power wires behind my house they are 92 yards away. I thought I wonder if I could nail him got a good rest against my deck post and gave it hell. fell like a stone my wife said there's no wat you'll hit that bird. I shot it looked over at her she smiled and said holly poop that little thing really is accurate I said yeah that's why we buy good guns lol

 

[Hunter129]

Yeah 

I didn’t take the shot with an airgun, but with my grandfathers fifty cal muzzleloader I shot a deer from 168 yards on the run and he dropped like a sack. By far my best shot

 

[steve123]

I hit a golf ball offhand at 381Y, lol. JK

When I was 14 years old, with a scoped Diana springer, I shot a tweety in the head/DRT, in offhand position, on the tip top of a dead tree at a estimated 125Y. I was almost at the bottom of the FOV of the scope while I held over. Total luck but this is a """true""" story.

My favorite shot of all time, which I witnessed my bud do a few years later, was a hit with a AG on a woodpecker. It was on the ground, it started flying up, up, and away, with each wing flap gaining altitude. Friend plugs it, then with each wing flap it loses altitude and crash lands, lol. Coolest shot ever, the event is burned into my memory like a video! And I've hit steel at 2500Y with my 375CT but my buds woodpecker shot was much more memorable!

I hit a potgut at 150-ish with my FX Royale 30 fpe 22 cal but shot quite a few past 100Y that day.

I hit a coyote in the face, high up on a hill looking down on us, bullet went up through the nostril and into the brain, this was at 400Y, with a AR-15 HBAR in 223. Darndest thing, bullet did not exit so it took us a while to figure this situation out??!!

Farthest PD so far was at 700Y-ish with a 6-284. 

 

[fatboy58]

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