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I once made an incredibly lucky snapshot on a rail with a shotgun but never anything like it with a .22
I have an uncle who would sometimes get rabbits in the brush with a 10-22.

Anyone have any stories to share?

I shot a dragonfly in flight with my Nylon 66 then went through ½ brick of ammo trying to do it again...

I'm still trying.

Lighting a self striking match at 25 yards with a BSA Martini model 12. It was a fun shoot... I was the only one to do it.

I once shot at a bird sitting on the edge of the ice on the Colorado river with a Marlin Mountie and Wildcat ammunition. By the time the bullet got there it had jumped into the water and the bullet landed in the snow close to where he had been sitting. This was repeated a few times and each time he returned to the ice after the bullet had landed. My brother in law suggested shooting while he was in the process of jumping back onto the edge. I fired when he could not be seen at the spot where I thought he would be. We were both surprised when the bird jumped onto the exact spot my bullet landed and killed himself. I recall counting seventeen 39 foot rail lengths on a long sweeping turn to where he expired. Somewhat over 200 yards I'd guess.

Me and boy used to shoot .22 LR at dirt clumps in the tilled field below the house.......sitting with a lean on the apple tree or prone over a sandbag.....at 300+ yards. Remington Model Five (Zastington) with a 3-9 ....... amazing how you could hit a coffee can sized clump with boring regularity. Boy was better at it than me.

Shot a chuck (and not a big one) at a lasered 280 yards first shot with a 592M a few years back. I'm certain the rifle is quite capable of farther. I just need to take the time and do it this summer.

Shot a bat once....not a baseball bat.

We like blasting eggs at 300 yds.

Threw our sleeping bags out on the ground after a rabbit hunt in the desert one evening. Woke up in the morning and a jackrabbit was making his way across a trail about 150 yards away so I picked up my Marlin 60 with open sights and let one fly. Dropped him with one shot right in the head..... nobody else would believe me because they were still sleeping.....

My buddy tried to shoot a hole in my shovel; the bullet ricocheted and hit him in the knee. He bounced around for 20 minutes. Looked like he wanted to piss himself

I once shot a bird out of the sky while it was in flight.

I once shot one out of the air that was not in flight.

So have I.

My late uncle once shot a flying pigeon out of a flock at 100 yards. He aimed at the lead one and killed one back in the pack. When they retrieved it, it was hit in the neck. "Aw, I was aiming for his eye", said my uncle.

My favorite shot was a starling I picked off a dried cornstalk at about 75 or 80 yards. Nothing magical about the shot, but the terminal effect from the Stinger was very satisfying. It turned that bird into an empty, feathered-covered skin.

Snake swimming in my pond, it was about 60 yards from the back porch. They swim like an S and the only thing that doesn't seem to wiggle is their head. Thought I would try a shot before it hit the bank on the other side. Head shot did it in. Then while it was tossing and trashing around we seen the water boil underneath it and something came up and grabbed it and pulled it under. Snake was about 3 feet long and we didnt even know we had a fish big enough to eat something like that.

There is a game called mini Palma y'all might want to look into.

Dropped a crow out of the air once. Distance? I don't know, 50 yards maybe. Proof to my skeptical buddies was the trail of blood drops in the pristine snow for 50 feet that culminated in the dead crow laying there.

Shot a crow off a fence post from 220 yards with a Ruger MK II target. Factory iron sights. Have killed many running rabbits and several flying birds with a .22 rifle.

Almost forgot about, arguably, the best (horseshoe up the arse) shot of my life...……….

Shot a groundhog at 75-80 yards with a CCI Stinger outta my $49 chrome plated Jennings J-22. Probably the equivalent of shooting a groundhog at 3 miles with your deer rifle.

Certainly you blew away the smoke from the end of barrel?

I head shot a running rabbit once. Tried several other times and I'm not sure my shots were in the same county.