What's the best shot you've ever made?

[Steve]

I am not talking about lucky shots, but the ones where everything came together perfectly. Mine was a 300 yard shot on a deer with wind, uphill and I called it exactly right. It felt like a movie. What's your best shooting moment?

 

[Cpt Jon]

My best shot was a long-range target in tough wind, I dialed everything in and nailed it clean. It felt unreal.

 

[rshrumva]

Mine was a 504yd shot on a whitetail in Wyoming. I wasn’t able to see if I connected due to the recoil. What gave it away was a couple of does intently looking where the buck had been standing .

 

[ButchA]

Back in Nov of 2010 at my oldest sister & brother-in-law's farm in upstate NY....
125 acres all to myself. Free use of an ATV. It was awesome, except for NY State's crazy laws.

Getting to the point: I was up in the upper pasture near the barn, and used my grunt tube and a 6 pointer came rumbling down the treelined hilltop. Actually he was a 5 pointer, with a busted tine because he got his a$$ kicked by a bigger buck, who snapped part of his tine off in the fight. He was roughly 125 yards away, looking around wondering what buck was on his turf. He was used to farm tractors, barns, ATV's, so he wasn't spooked. I raised up my Savage .308 rifle and put him in the crosshairs. I said a silent prayer and gently squeezed the trigger.

BANG... FLOP... DOA right there.

Buck had no idea what hit him. Upon field dressing, my brother-in-law and I quickly realized that I not only dropped the buck with one shot, but I actually blew the Aorta right off his heart with a 165gr Nosler Ballistic Tip!

 

[Surrywoodman]

I had two, one was about 40 yards at a running doe in the woods. I have shot running game but before it was in a clearing or a field. Nailed her in the upper shoulders with a Savage Model 110 in 30-06 with my hand loads, down she went for the count. Second shot a couple of years later but in the same place (facing in a slightly different direction) with the same gun and bullets I shot a 6 pointer at 125 yds (measured) who was walking slowly through, when he stopped I shot and piled him up.

 

[Dauntless]

 My best shot ever was a running coyote at 150 yards. The lead was spot on, the drop just right, and he went down mid-stride. Everything came together perfectly that time.

 

[Short Bus]

Wrong thread...

 

[Alan]

Back in Nov of 2010 at my oldest sister & brother-in-law's farm in upstate NY....
125 acres all to myself. Free use of an ATV. It was awesome, except for NY State's crazy laws.

Getting to the point: I was up in the upper pasture near the barn, and used my grunt tube and a 6 pointer came rumbling down the treelined hilltop. Actually he was a 5 pointer, with a busted tine because he got his a$$ kicked by a bigger buck, who snapped part of his tine off in the fight. He was roughly 125 yards away, looking around wondering what buck was on his turf. He was used to farm tractors, barns, ATV's, so he wasn't spooked. I raised up my Savage .308 rifle and put him in the crosshairs. I said a silent prayer and gently squeezed the trigger.

BANG... FLOP... DOA right there.

Buck had no idea what hit him. Upon field dressing, my brother-in-law and I quickly realized that I not only dropped the buck with one shot, but I actually blew the Aorta right off his heart with a 165gr Nosler Ballistic Tip!

Nice shot placement! everything lined up that day and the result speaks for itself

 

[Alan]

I had two, one was about 40 yards at a running doe in the woods. I have shot running game but before it was in a clearing or a field. Nailed her in the upper shoulders with a Savage Model 110 in 30-06 with my hand loads, down she went for the count. Second shot a couple of years later but in the same place (facing in a slightly different direction) with the same gun and bullets I shot a 6 pointer at 125 yds (measured) who was walking slowly through, when he stopped I shot and piled him up.

You’ve clearly put in time behind that rifle...field experience like that builds real confidence in your shot placement.