Your longest shot

**hunter63** · 08-24-2009, 11:34 AM

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 with all the rules and insurances they 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.

**COWBOYSURVIVAL** · 08-24-2009, 11:50 AM

100 yds. 150grain corelock .270 is where I draw the line for deer mostly due to ethics and sportsmanship. I would be comfortable out to 200yds. if everything was perfect I suppose, like you already said though I would want to do some work at the range first and it would have to be at least 200yds. preferably 250yds. to get me really comfortable.

**Born2Late** · 08-24-2009, 12:16 PM

Shot a jackal once at 350 metres with my 7x57.I think it was more luck than skill.I am more a hunter than a shooter and prefer to get as close as I can before taking a shot.The trick is to walk and stalk and give the animal a fair chance to get away.In the bush where we usually hunt 150 metres can be considered a long shot,usually along a road or a fence,the rest is pretty thick thorny stuff.

**glockcop** · 08-24-2009, 12:21 PM

For two weeks in Texas many years ago using a 1000 yrd range we shot from 600 yrds and in during SRT Sniper school on paper with a worked over Remington 700 in 308 shooting 168 gr Federal Gold Match HP ammo for scoring purposes. 600 (which we shot at) is far, a 1000yrds(which we did not shoot from) is insane man. Three shots in one minute is pretty hard at 600 on an 8'' steel plate. Might not sound like it but for me anyway it is. Through that 3.5x10x50 Leupold scope 1000 yrds looks rediculously faaaarrrrr and almost intimidating while seeing it in real life. Never had to shoot anything with a pulse that far. Longest hunting shot was about 180yrds with my stainless and synthetic Ruger MK11 30-06 loaded with Hornaday 150gr SP ammo. In the two places where I hunt most of my shots are well under 125 yrds. with the vast majority being around 45-85 yrds so my Marlin 30-30 gets most of my time.

**Pict** · 08-24-2009, 01:13 PM

Alaska 2004

Rifle Rem 760 Carbine, .30-06
3x9 Redfield scope
IIRC 175 grain load.

It was just after sundown on our last hunt of the day (wolf/brown bear). I mistakenly thought that when one of the other hunters went down to the electronic call (squealing rabbit) we were done hunting. When I saw that I got up, folded up my canoe chair, folded down my shooting sticks and packed up ready to hike out. He had actually gone down to flip over the tape as he had two wolves coming in about 400 yards out on his end. Another hunter had motioned for me to get down and I realized that Gene was aiming at something off to our right.

While I was sitting there feeling like an idiot, waiting for his shot, I would slowly turn my head and look over the snowfield to my left. The light was slowly fading and the mist was rising. On one of those looks there was a coyote tearing across the field. I threw up the rifle and realized I had breathed on the scope at some point!

Low (but not unsafe) light, 200 yards of mist, foggy optics, unsupported seated position! All I had in the scope was a dark gray form charging hard across the snow. I had very little time to contemplate or resolve the shot. I lined up my horizontal hair on him and threw the X out in front of him a body length, swung with it for an instant and fired. CRACK, he went down hard, total wipeout.

WHOO HOO! Now I'm pumped. I saw his front end come up and fired another shot. He went down and stayed down. I reloaded the rifle and got to my feet. It was a long walk over frozen muskeg covered with knee deep snow. As I got close I could see he was still alive. I shouldered my rifle and drew my 4 inch .41 magnum. It was then that he raised his head. There were two tufts of hair on top of his ears. I had shot a very large, mature lynx.

Replaying the "tape", when I sat up to aim he looked right at me so I never saw a profile of his head. What I saw as a coyote running in the snow was a lynx running on top of it. We had seen coyote tracks every day so this was all in line with our expectations.

Mac

**crashdive123** · 08-24-2009, 01:17 PM

My longest shot? Just shy of 6,000 miles (Trident D-5 bullet.....OK, missile).

On a serious note a couple of hundred yards. This is a skill that I plan on developing though. Just for the enjoyment and discipline of it.

**2dumb2kwit** · 08-24-2009, 01:57 PM

I haven't hunted in many years, but shooting for fun.....30-06, 3x9 scope, 10" steel plate at 500yards......no problem.

7.5x55 swiss, open sights, 1,000 yards....glockcop is right...holy crap, that's a long ways off! I could hit within 3 or 4 feet of the target. I can't wait for another chance to shoot that far. As crash said, it's a skill that I want to work on.

**doug1980** · 08-24-2009, 02:59 PM

While hunting with my little New England single shot 20 guage I hit a deer at 60 yards, barely hit it though.
While training I shot my M-16 at 200 meters with open sights. Shot 5 rounds and hit the target 4 times. That was a bit difficult.

**COWBOYSURVIVAL** · 08-24-2009, 06:41 PM

We haven't heard from the guy with the 45/70 yet hmmm?

**crashdive123** · 08-24-2009, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by COWBOYSURVIVAL

We haven't heard from the guy with the 45/70 yet hmmm?

I used to have a Ruger No. 1 45-70. Sure was a fun rifle to shoot and make things disappear.

**COWBOYSURVIVAL** · 08-24-2009, 06:57 PM

I shot the H&R Bull Barrell 45/70 and it is a horse for sure!

**Rick** · 08-24-2009, 06:58 PM

My longest shot? I guess asking my wife to marry me.

**crashdive123** · 08-24-2009, 07:01 PM

The guy that I traded with for it (and ultimately had to trade it back because he missed it so much) loaded his own. I was running 500 grain bullets through it. If I remember right (it's been a while) only 305 grain were available without special order.

**Ken** · 08-24-2009, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by Rick

My longest shot? I guess asking my wife to marry me.

Mrs. Rick?

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**COWBOYSURVIVAL** · 08-24-2009, 07:05 PM

Wow! that is alot of bullet...the way I understand it, the old octagon barrel guns would see a buffalo at 400 yds. documented and out 2X that undocumented.

**NightShade** · 08-24-2009, 07:09 PM

My longest shot hunting was approx. 100 yds... but I often take my 30-06 Browning A-bolt with a 3x9 scope out to an old airstrip near my parents vacation home... I can consistently place shots on a paper plate at 300 yds.... and on the same old airstrip i lost a $100 bet to a buddy of mine when he hit 2 out of 3 shots with a 300 win mag at what seemed to be 30 miles... ( closer to 900 yds really )