We’ve had the “Dumbest” thing you’ve done or seen with a gun and the “Stupid” stories so I thought, how about one on the coolest shot you ever made. One day I was pheasant hunting with some friends when we came to a small patch of trees and tall grass in the middle of the field we were in. The kind that is good cover for the birds. It was small so I just let my dog Kona wonder in while I walked around it. I was carrying a double barreled 12 ga. and just had it hanging at arm’s length in front of me. Suddenly Kona flushed a rooster of course surprising the crap out of me. I swung the shotgun and made a great shot dropping the bird. One of my buddies exclaimed, “Did you just shot that bird from the hip”? Sure enough I had not shouldered the gun, I just dropped it from the hip.
Deer at 75 yards with a hand gun on the run. 357 it was a lucky shot I lead the thing about 20 feet or more. Only reason I took the shot was so my sister would not feel bad missing it with the shot gun.
I was just starting to load my Beretta 390 for an afternoon dove hunt, and had just dropped in the first shell and hit the bolt release to chamber it when 3 tightly packed dove crossed at about 25 yards 10 feet off the ground. I swung from the hip, pressed the safety button at the front of the trigger guard and fired, dropping two of the three birds with one shot using a skeet choke. Funny because there weren't many birds flying the rest of the day...
Another was during my teen years. I had a Crossman 760 pellet gun pumped up when my brother kicked a soccer ball about 30 yards away, crossing in front of me. Just for grins, I fired at the soccer ball, figuring there wasn't a snowball's chance in Hades of hitting it. Wrong. I had to buy him a new soccer ball.
One year goose hunting a flight came into the decoys, dropped one on the water and hit a second one but glided behind some trees. Went looking for the goose and found it dead in the back of my truck.
I shot competitive 3D archery for 15 yrs. I made one shot at 40 yds with a 2315 aluminum arrow through a 4" hole in a tree. Couldnt even see the target until I went to pull my arrow, it was a perfect 10.
I have hunted and killed several pheasants in flight with a recurve. Flu flu's with a zwickey game getter point.
My luckiest shot...... 150lb + doe at 75-100 yrds head on waiting for her to turn broadside, completely unaware. Something felt funny and I hesitated, and she took of like a hell spawn demon. About two minutes later a guy and his kid came walking down the trail she had been, right in my line of fire. Every deer I have shot with my muzzleloader has been a complete pass through. Odd my luckiest shot is the one i didnt take.
Oh, and I shot a crow out of a tree at like 100 yds with an iron sight 22 lr when I was a kid. No skill involved, only pure luck.
I swung on a small flock of mallards just almost out of range & dropped two nice drakes, as I lowerd and broke open my Browning O/U the empty hulls eject the same time a third mallard drake falls dead straight down out of the heavens on to the other two!
I was shooting with a friend who had just purchased a new (used) revolver. He was having a hard time hitting the broadside of a barn with it, and when I shot it, I also had difficulty, but was able to keep them on target. He made the comment he could shoot better blindfolded than with that revolver. So, he held it up, closed his eyes, and hit the bullseye on the first attempt.
Cool shot - but totally lucky. Even in a rest that particular revolver wouldn't provide a group anything more than the size of a dinner plate at 7 yards. It was promptly traded in for a new (used) Ruger Vaquero which he still has.
Well my uncoolest shot I ever made was the Christmas vacation I was ten I was shooting my new Ben Pearson 20# bow at a hay bale in front of dads single story barn (no hayloft). Well my dad had queitly walked up behind me as I nocked up a now feather less arrow and turning the bow crosswise robin hood style I let the arrow fly.
The Kansas wind lifted the shot too high arrow and it sailed over the barn![
My dads voice caught me by surprize as it boomed "by god you've done it son"! You have missed the broad side of a barn"! "Never thought It could be done, but you proved me wrong!"
Never lived that one down. But then again I have never missed the broad side of barn again.
My "coolest" shot was not with a gun, but with a bow and arrow.
I had just gotten off shift and it was a lovely spring day. :dancing2: :240: I decided to try out the new archery range at the Wyandotte County Lake. :bogenschuetze:
I didn't have a fancy compound, but a nice little re curve I got when I was a teen. 45 pound pull.
Each time I shot...it went to the left, because the string kept hitting my arm. Note: One of the firefighters told me later that needed a special arm guard because of the difference between a man and woman's physical structure of the arm.
I got tired of not hitting where I was aiming and the arm was beginning to hurt. :grumpy: I was retrieving my arrows and the last one was really off and in the grass. I picked it up and there was a Water Moccasin Snake opout2: :eek1: shot right in the middle and impaled real good...and appeared angry (go figure).
Not wanting to get too close, but not wanting to lose my arrow I whipped the arrow back and then forward sending the snake on a ride, through the air and into the woods. Then I RAN....not knowing how strong the feeling of "revenge" the snake might have...Jumped in my car and drove away. uttahere:
Like I said....the tip on the arm guard was right. I went many times after, but not to THAT range. How long is a snake's memory???
The UNCOOLEST shot I ever made was at the city dump back in the sixties. Was using a remington Nylon 66 to shoot rats. A rat was about fifty yards away perched on a farm tractor tire. I missed....a bit low....and the bullet hit the tire and flew back to me hitting me on the thigh.
Dang that was painful!
I was working at a bait shop on sanibel an had a customer outside showing him how to use a baitcaster. about 25 yards away was a light pole with a lizard on it, Yep hit it on first cast with rubber plug I sold the reel & rod.
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