Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting Longest perfect shot...what's yours?

Just wanted to see what y'all would say. Mine was probably 300-315.

Longest perfect shot made, or longest shot you would take under perfect conditions?
But let me guess--you live east of the Mississippi?

longest perfect shot made, and no, east of the Pecos.

Just last year (a few months ago) shot this little mulie in the Deschutes canyons at a lasered 600 yards with my 300 wizzum using a 165 hornady spbt interlock over some H4350. One shot where I wanted it and bang flop. I mean bang, back flip off the side of the hill, rolled 70 yards (hoping the damn thing would stop before reaching the bottom of the canyon) . Watched the whole time through the scope and when he finally stopped, not even a twitch.....:

Just about as perfect as one can get except I didn't have anyone to pack the damn thing out for me (good thing it was a dink!!):




The rifle shoots like this almost "all day long"......:

10 shot group....

Whoah....nice

575, with lots between 300 and 400.

But then there is both opportunity to develop the skill of LR shooting around here, as well as the need of it.



My son is standing down in the middle of the photo over a dead antelope, as I take the picture from whence he shot.

thats a good little ways there

Ahh...Reminds me of Nevada where I learned all about taking long pokes at critters...Jack rabbits volunteered for that job quite often...

looks like wyoming to me. lots of short sage with no trees out there.

.223 - 527 yards rock chuck - in the rump out the chest
.220 Extremist - 467 yards - center punch chest
short fat 7mm - 400 elk - top of the heart destroyed arteries

A companions wounded mule deer buck back in the pre LRF days;and by the time I spotted him I had to take what I got,which was him quartering steeply away,and from the image through the 4X scope I figured him at about 500 yards.

I held for that, hit where I wanted to..

We got him.

Another pronghorn at about 400 yards;and a pair of bull elk at about 450-475 or so.

That's as far as it goes for me.

This was a pretty good day. Better to be lucky than good but the best is finding a very unlucky coyote. He must have done something really bad.

John he was an unrepetent sinner and got his just reward.......

Nicely done! I can't even see them that far away!

Bob

He even had mange. Karma is a bitch.

493yd called/lasered head shot on a doe. In just behind the nose, out between the ears. Factory Win 70 270 Fwt barreled action bedded into a "Winlight" McMillan Fwt pattern. I shot her prone using a set of crossed rattling antlers as my front rest.

My most satisfying (not on game) long range shot was made back in 1977 when my then new 7 mag was the only mag in camp and my buddies had been riding me about it.

We were in western Colorado and my buddy said can you hit the top of that dirt pedestal? I said sure, laid across the hood and held near the bottom of cross hair (guessing) and fired. About a full second later a puff of dust kicked up on top of the pedestal and I put the rifle down and continued packing to go home, as if it were intentional rather than lucky.

This is probably my best/luckiest shot on flesh and hide. The shot was 942 yards, and the poor yote didn't know what the heck was going on. One minute he was pouncing for mice, the next he was floating on the clouds.

1031 yards on this Roosevelt Elk

Wow...to everybody, especially the 942 and 1017 yd. coyotes

Not so impressive compared to the others. A caribou at 802. My 4H shooter called the shot as thinking it was a hair low? So next shot I corrected by kentucky elevation and held to hit the spine, which it did. First shot was a hair low... bottom 1/3 of the chest cavity just a bit behind the heart.. either would kill easily of course. 338 Win Mag and 225 Barnes X bullets.

I was close to an exotic sheep around 970 or so IIRC but the wind was more than I wanted to deal with so I took a sighter shot on a cantaloupe sized rock about 150 or 200 yards off to the side, and amazingly enough had doped the wind perfectly.... scraped bottom of that rock. But the sheep took off for some reason and never quit walking until out of sight.