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Luckiest shot

wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
We've had the longest, the shortest. Now what is the luckiest shot you've ever made.
Mine was a sparrow about 25-30 yards with a Ruger Single six old model with a 9" barrel. Me and a friend where out shooting gar of a bluff down into the creek. I said hey watch this and did my best Matt Dillon impersonation drew and fired at this bird in a tree down and across the creek from us. I dropped without even fluttering. I knew it was pure luck and could never do it again.I put it away and didn't even try to shoot again. But a school the next day my buddy was bragging me up and down as a gunslinger.I didn't correct him.

Remember here at DeeDee"s If we can't kill it, it's immortal
D.D.Snavely
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ...all my shots involved skill, luck had nothing to do with it...(that's my story, and I'm sticking to it)
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was at the gun club, a guy had a modified Norinco .45acp, and had probably gone thru two magazines shooting at a 4" metal plate ou at 50yds from the bench. As he was reloading his clips, being the only two people on the line, I walked over to him and started a conversation. Showed him my Colt MkIV and my ParaOrd 14-45L I brought. He said, "I bet I could hit the plate if I had a gun like that." I asked him if I could try with his, he said he'd spot me to tell me where I was hitting, and gave me a magazine. I loaded, and from a standing one hand classic NRA shooting position I pointed and squeezed off a round, not really inteneding to hit the plate, but then saw it fall over hearing the plink noise. I put the gun on safe and set it on the shooting table, and told the guy, "It seems to shoot fine to me."

    It was a totally lucky shot, but I was the king for a day, and that guy thought I was a real shooter.

    Its a funny coincidence that he was on the rifle range several weeks later shooting an Enfield No4 Mk1 at some orange clays on the 100yd berm, asked me if I wanted to try, got lucky again, and smoked one on the first shot.

    I see him every once in a while on the range. When he brings a friend, tells them about how great a shooter I am. I don't want to tell the guy that it was just lucky shots and I probably couldn't do it again on the first try.

    I just wish I had a dollar for every gun I wanted, then I'd be a rich man.
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am by no means an expert But I do have this on video since some seem to find it hard to believe.At 25 feet I can double tap my friends 3" Backpacker .44 with magnum rounds and hit within 2 inches of each other sometimes im even closer.Whether this is a big deal or not I dont know but I caught some flack in ask the experts lke I thought I was wild bill or someting because I can do that.I think its pretty good though.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • RickstirRickstir Member Posts: 574 ✭
    edited November -1
    Mine was with a bow. Deck full of family and friends. About 25 yards away a rabbit comes through the fence and starts eating the flowers. Since I had a step ladder set up (it was two weeks before deer season starts and my practice was at a feverish pitch), I got out the bow. "You'll never hit it" was the concensus from the guests. Slow pull.....breath out slowly....line up the sights... BINGO, pinned that sucker to the ground. My brother and I did the high-five, while the uninitiated slowly turned green. Wonderful memory.

    Like in the NFL, defense is the key.
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  • CAndres35CAndres35 Member Posts: 453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    was out on a 28 foot cabin cruiser near catalina island where some realy good shots were trying to hit a wiskey bottle floating in the ocean. as i had hardly ever shot a revolver i didnt say much. finaly the guy that owned the revolver asked me if i wanted to try it. on first shot i sunk the bottle and handed it back to him. i never did confess to how lucky that shot was. carl
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  • RockinURockinU Member Posts: 248 ✭
    edited November -1
    Mr. Williams, Just for the sake of clarity, I think he was flaming you because you spoke of your prowess with this revolver, stated that you didn't think a 9mm was worth your time, stated that you were looking for your first handgun and asked for advice all in the same post...rubbed him a little wrong, but he is a good and knowledgable guy, so don't hold it against him. By the way, if I were you, and could shoot a revolver that effeciently, that's what I would buy.
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  • dobieman0690dobieman0690 Member Posts: 148 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    back in my collage days we were on a rond trip up in the yack we were driving down highwat2 at 70mph passing a couple of ponds a mallard was just getting up i stuck the barrel of my highstandard pistol out the window and shot the duck dropped dead all pure luck or could it have been jack danials
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  • RockinURockinU Member Posts: 248 ✭
    edited November -1
    When I was in High School we went to south Texas on a white wing hunt. Sitting there in the heat we had a single coming in, and he saw us and circled off, passing behind a tree, I squeezed off an impossibly long shot as he came out from behind the tree, hit him and 2 black bird that flew out of the tree at an inopportune time (one of the black birds got up). My Dad just looked at me and shook his head.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The One That Missed Me!

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
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  • BoltactionManBoltactionMan Member Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    About 20 years ago a friend and I were knockin' around in the woods during the fall. At the time I was into my CVA Mountain Rifle in 50 Cal. We bumped up this old fox squirrel and he took off runnin' about 25 yards out. I cocked the gun on the way to my shoulder and as he jumped for the tree I fired. I hit him right in the eye. All my friend could say was, Nice Shot.

    KC
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  • BlktailBlktail Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Took a fall out hunting deer. Later in the day I shot at a deer at about 150 yds. aiming for the heart. When I went down the hill to retrieve the deer I found that my bullet hit him behind his ear emptying his skull of brains. Took the gun to the range and found I was way high and way left due to the fall I had taken. Good thing the deer was leaving to my left! I check my gun now any time I even bump the scope.

    Blktail
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  • steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Running jackrabbit at 300 yds with .22 long rifle. First shot about 3 feet behind and a little low. Adjust and second shot hits behind the ribs angling up to the opposite shoulder. Bullet remained in rabbit.
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Years ago on a deer hunting trip we saw a white duck or snow goose, I forget which, in a stream about 30 feet away.
    I drew a Remington double .41 Derringer, took aim at the center of mass and fired. The duck folded and we got him to shore. The bullet was off by a foot. It had broken his neck and he drowned. For two kids on a shoestring that bird made an unexpected good meal.
    The next day my buddy shot a deer with my 50-70 Springfield using original black powder ammo that had been taken apart, reprimed and reassembled with pliers.
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  • Laredo LeftyLaredo Lefty Member Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Many years ago while out plinking near Crowley lake in Cal. I was shooting my 6" S&W K-38 with reloads. A dove went flying by about 30 yds away so I led him a little and let go, the bird exploded in a puff of feathers.
    On a sailing trip to Catalina with some buddies I took along my 10-22 for some plinking. Since I have been crapped on by seagulls in the past I decided to try to get back even though they are protected. I can tell this now because the statute of limitations is up. As this gull flew by about 100yds away I let loose with some long rifles, leading him by about 5-10 ft. When I hit him it was like a Jap plane in a WWII documentary spiraling into the sea, the only thing missing was the smoke.

    Happy shootin---
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    First deer season after the accident still in recovery with partial use of left side had to walk with crutches and be propped up against a tree when not moving. Dropped an 8 pt whitetail buck with a single shot with my .270 Remington 760 at about 125 yds+ in a full run quartering away up the mountain through trees. Thought I had missed until the buck came sliding down the mountain on the snow. To this day I have no idea why I attempted that shot, maybe it was the morphine.

    Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
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  • NOTPOSTALNOTPOSTAL Member Posts: 311 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    when I was in high school me and a buddy were at the river skipping rocks in a informal competition, both for distance and number of skips. My buddy decided he had found the perfect skipping rock and let it fly, I snatched up my Glenfield m60 and cut loose and hit it on 3rd shot, that pretty well ended the match. On another trip to the river we pulled up on a gravel bar to answer the call of nature, when my buddy spooked a cotton mouth in my direction, without even thinking I did my best John Wayne imitation and quick drew my 22 SA and shot that sucker right thru the head at about 10 feat. Both were lucky shots but I never admitted that too him, hope he don't read this post.

    ...from my cold dead fingers!!
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  • NOTPOSTALNOTPOSTAL Member Posts: 311 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    After I read my post I decided it needed clarifying, I shot the snake thru the head not my buddy.

    ...from my cold dead fingers!!
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Years ago coming home from deer hunting, my dad and I were driving out of the desert in my sandbuggy. A jackrabbit was running alongside about 50 yards out. I lifted my old Colt Frontier Scout and shot left handed and nailed him. I was really proud of that shot until my dad made me stop and clean him for my supper. He reminded me that we don't kill what we don't eat. Damn, that rabbit was tough.

    **I love the smell of Hoppes #9 in the morning**
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  • Rob GreeneRob Greene Member Posts: 102 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One question for everyone...I've made lucky shots, too. Just how many plain old horrible shots have you made before you got that one lucky shot? If you're anything like I am, you've made far more bad shots, improved along the way, and had a few that you still can't believe you made! It's just averages...you eventually will get one good shot if you keep shooting enough. (They still look darn good, though, don't they?

    **It is your right to posess a firearm. In case of questions, please refer to ammendment 2, United States Constitution.**
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was about 7 years old, I was walking down the street with one of those paddles that has a rubber ball connected on it. I ripped the rubber ball off, and I had a few marblesthat I would smack at various targets-never hit anything.
    We came to a house that had just been built, and I decided to smack a marble at the house. There was a window, and I sorta aimed for it, but being that I couldnt hit the broad side of a barn,I never thought I would hit it, so I let it rip.
    SMASHED THE WINDOW!
    I went home, and when my father got home from work, he asked about the window(one of my brothers ratted me out). I told him what happend, and he took that paddle and beat my * with it.


    Happiness is a warm gun
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  • hunter280manhunter280man Member Posts: 705 ✭
    edited November -1
    My luckiest and probably my best shot was in StIgnace Mi, thats in the U.P. for those of you that aren't aware of the geography of this great state.

    We were on a motorcycle trip with my buddy, kinda on the whim type trip. After closing down the bars in Bay City and hitting the road. I was in the parking lot of the local MickeyDees chowing down a big mac when a bunch of dumpster ducks started attacking us for our fries. The situation was sorta under control till a flying white rat * on my new bikes seat! Now you realize that this ment war.

    I picked up a small rock and hit the vengfull creature from hell right in his throat. After a quick laugh we looked around to notice every vacationer in the normally friendly restaraunt was staring at us. Man was I ever glad to see the seagull come too and fly away squawking loudly.

    Though I was born to royalty, I was snatched at birth, so treat me as the noble I am!!!
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