Your longest shot

**COWBOYSURVIVAL** · 08-25-2009, 09:15 PM

I can assure you there aren't any Newts around here anymore! Wait whats my attack beagle got there?? I see it orange,, be right back...............

**Pict** · 08-25-2009, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by 2dumb2kwit

LOL....it's a lot to ask, of a shooter!

I've shot at bowling pins, at 500 yds. It sounds easy enough! LOL

Good shootin'!

What's cool is at that range you can settle in after the shot and spot your own rounds. I don't want to leave the impression that we hit clays every shot at that range, but they certainly aren't safe. Mac

**Huntinfool** · 08-26-2009, 12:38 PM

Talk about OT you guys are having more fun than the law allows pokin' jokes at each other!

Now to try and get back on topic.

My longest shot was on a man silhouette target at 1000 yards with my .308. Put four into the target three were in the kill one in the gut.

Shot a deer at 553 yards with a .338 LM from a bench ranged with a wild artillery range finder. Seemed like a chip shot for that rifle it weighed in at 38 pounds with the Night Force scope and all.

It has a Batt action, Lilja Barrel, and a McMillan stock! Made several bowling pin shots at 750 yards with it!

Longest shot on varmints:.... groundhog at 610 yards with a .270.

Longest shot on deer with a light weight hunting rifle (not off a bench) 450 yards with same .270!

Oh I almost forgot about the newt I shot just the other day was approx. 3,724 yards with a hard 32.5 MPH left to right wind gave him a third eyeball!
No problem!!

~HF~

**Rick** · 08-26-2009, 02:13 PM

Ken? Are you all right? Do you have a third eye?

**Ken** · 08-26-2009, 02:22 PM

Uhhhh, I think he was talking about you, Rick.

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**finallyME** · 08-26-2009, 04:34 PM

Sorry, I am not as exciting as a lot of yous...

My longest is 300m at pop-up targets with an M16.

**Huntinfool** · 08-26-2009, 04:59 PM

LOL!

You guys are a riot!

~HF~

**lucznik** · 08-26-2009, 05:02 PM

My longest ever shot on big game was a mule deer I killed at 426 yards.

Close to it was a 420 yard shot on an elk.

In both instances I was shooting a Win M70 in .264 Win Mag.

**glockcop** · 08-28-2009, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by lucznik

My longest ever shot on big game was a mule deer I killed at 426 yards.

Close to it was a 420 yard shot on an elk.

In both instances I was shooting a Win M70 in .264 Win Mag.

That .264 win mag is one of the most great long range game getters a man could ask for. Can't figure out why it isn't more popular. It simply performs w/o alot of fuss. Good choice. I can't justify to myself to buy another rifle any time soon cause my 30-30 and 30-06 do everything I need them to do. In fact I have a brand new scoped 7mm mag that I have never fired in the 8 plus years I've owned it. I sold my other 7 mag. I am interested in that .264 mag for some unknown reason. Maybe one day I'll talk myself into it

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**huntermj** · 08-28-2009, 09:31 PM

No real long shots here, But i have a 22lr thats a real Tack driver

**notlost** · 08-28-2009, 09:54 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7EuIs8ECpk
Long range and a beautiful old rifle
and of course:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRKUMUPcR7k

**Ole WV Coot** · 08-29-2009, 06:50 PM

I really should skip this but I was on the back porch looking around with a pair of 10X50s and spotted a deer on another hillside and had the old 30-30 inside the back door, took rest on the porch rail, allowed for drop & wind and dropped it in it's tracks. Started walking and since it was about 1pm I took a snack with me, walked til dark, didn't bring a flashlight so I just stayed in a cozy spot til daylight. I walked on for an hour or so, got the deer and a nice guy gave me and the deer a ride home on his ATV. After telling the wife where I had been all night I dug the rangefinder out and checked the approx. distance. It was about 200yds from the back porch to the other hilltop, but we have deep valleys in parts of WV so does that count?

**lucznik** · 08-30-2009, 01:14 AM

Originally Posted by glockcop

That .264 win mag is one of the most great long range game getters a man could ask for. Can't figure out why it isn't more popular. It simply performs w/o alot of fuss. Good choice. I can't justify to myself to buy another rifle any time soon cause my 30-30 and 30-06 do everything I need them to do. In fact I have a brand new scoped 7mm mag that I have never fired in the 8 plus years I've owned it. I sold my other 7 mag. I am interested in that .264 mag for some unknown reason. Maybe one day I'll talk myself into it

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Mine was a gift from my Grampy. He bought it in the late 1960's and hunted with it extensively until he couldn't hunt anymore. It is a great rifle. If I do my part, it will shoot right at 1/2 MOA - which is pretty great from a 40-or-so year old rifle with its original factory barrel. I don't know what all my Grampy took with this rifle, but it has taken antelope, mule deer, and elk for me and I've never had cause to question its abilities.

My dad has been shooting his .264 Win Mag since the late 1950's. He has used his to take most every big game animal in North America, including a few large bull moose and even a couple of brown bears when he was stationed in Alaska while serving in the Air Force.

My uncle owns a .264 Win Mag as well. It too was his primary hunting rifle for many decades. He and my dad both flirted with the 7mm Rem Mag for a short time, but they could never get their 7mm's to shoot as well as the old .264s. Only recently he started shooting a .260 Rem, mostly because it is lighter and he has trouble getting around as well as he once could. My dad can't get around worth a dang anymore either, but he won't hear about switching rifles. As far as cartridges are conserned, he's found his one and only real love.

So, to say we are fans of the .264 Win Mag cartridge would be something of an understatement.

**mccaw69** · 08-30-2009, 02:21 AM

shot a groundhog at 275 yrds with my 22-250 once.6x24x40 scope.I was a little bit better shot back then.gettn' old sucks.

**mortars101** · 09-12-2009, 04:42 PM

500 meters in iraq i would say luck was some of it

**sthrnstrong** · 03-09-2010, 12:31 AM

M16-A2 500yards prone. Currently building a Remington 700 SPS Tatical .308. Hoping to hit 1000+yrds when done. Alot of work and good bit of money going into the project. Trying to decide on a scope. Any information or insight from experienced shooters more than welcome (especially from a HOG).

**Alaskan Survivalist** · 03-09-2010, 01:51 PM

I learned all I could about long range shooting over a span of several decades at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars. I'm sure you guys have seen old military rifles with the sights marked out to 2000 meters. This was for a tactic they used called volley fire. One large group would all aim at another large group over a mile away and all fire at the same time. The bullets would get there before the report of the rifle and they would not hear a thing, the sky would just rain bullets. I have not just shot at maximum zero or even just to the limits of the optics but to the full lenght of the bullets trajectory. As a fisherman I think I can teach you guys a thing or two about the art of braging. You have to give enough substance to the story to leave them scratching thier head wondering if it is possible? I enjoyed the story about the rifle that only had a bullet drop of 6' at a mile and half and the computer generated drop compensated scope. My brag is going to go far beyond that with a challenge. Not only do I know how to use all the technologly advanced tools for long range shooting but I know how to do it without them. Tell me how you make your long shots and I will tell you how to make any shot under any condition at any distance to the full lenght of your bullets travel with any gun. Bull****? There is one way to find out. Tell me how you make your long shots.

**Rick** · 03-09-2010, 04:43 PM

The longest shot I've made was a great big spider in the far corner of the outhouse. Nailed him on the first try. Of course, then he started running at me and I nailed myself a couple of times before I got out of there.

**crashdive123** · 03-09-2010, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by Alaskan Survivalist

Tell me how you make your long shots.

Send the latitude, longitude, velocities and accelerations in all axises from the Electrostatically Supported Gyro Navigator which has two - two degree of freedom gyros that contain a beryllium ball rotating real fast directly to the Fire Control System, which in turn feeds that data and the targeting coordinates to the on board guidance system of the D5 missile and then launch it. Six thousand miles later - one shot - a whole lot of kills.

I thought everybody took their long shots this way.