For me, 504 yds on a whitetail, last day of the season 2 yrs ago. I was shooting a my 300 Win Mag with 180gr accubonds. 500 is considered "long" here on the coast of Va.
~500 yards on a previousely wounded Mule Deer(not by me) while it was walking. Heart shot. (Lucky.) ~350 yard neck shot on previousley wounded Mule Deer that was trotting. (Me) (Very Lucky.)
The first was with a 30-06/165g combo and the second with a 300 H&H/180g combo.
I don't believe that for a second, Bob! All you gotta do is rig up one of your several accurate rifles with a decent LR turret (like an M1 on that 3.5-10 you were talking about), or just start twisting the turrets on that Summit or yours, and start playing around at distances that push your abilities! Pretty soon it'll be just another day shooting steel at 1000 yards. Then when an animal appears at 800 it will be second nature
Or course, that is assuming you have access to somewhere you can practice at those extended ranges...
~500 yards on a previousely wounded Mule Deer(not by me) while it was walking. Heart shot. (Lucky.) ~350 yard neck shot on previousley wounded Mule Deer that was trotting. (Me) (Very Lucky.)
The first was with a 30-06/165g combo and the second with a 300 H&H/180g combo.
I hear ya on that! I know this thread is about longest shots, but I feel like some of my best/luckiest shots were on animals that were on the move, even though the range was 1/3 or less that of some of my longer shots...
We used to be able to shoot a match that was moving silhouettes at 300 and 600 yards... man did that teach you a few things.. one you need to figure out the lead. two, once you had a good idea of what lead was required, it really was not as difficult as it seemed it might be.
But I won't shoot an unwounded animal thats moving, even at a walk at anything over 100-200 yards depending...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
We used to be able to shoot a match that was moving silhouettes at 300 and 600 yards... man did that teach you a few things.. one you need to figure out the lead. two, once you had a good idea of what lead was required, it really was not as difficult as it seemed it might be.
But I won't shoot an unwounded animal thats moving, even at a walk at anything over 100-200 yards depending...
No reason for that! Increasing ones effective range is a personal progress type of thing. There are plenty of guys who can shoot farther than me, and plenty who can't. That doesn't make much of a difference to me. It's an ongoing process, and you should be happy that you're out there developing and increasing your abilities, regardless of where you are along the journey
437yds. laser ranged after the kill. Grass airplane runway in Delaware County, NY. .284Win., Browning Micro Medallion, 20 inch barrel. 139g Sierra Pro Hunter, 50g IMR 4350, maybe 51. I don't remember. It was in 1995 and I think that the little Micro Medallion was wearing a .... um....cough....well it was a .....well it was a 3-9X40 Simmons.
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437yds. laser ranged after the kill. Grass airplane runway in Delaware County, NY. .284Win., Browning Micro Medallion, 20 inch barrel. 139g Sierra Pro Hunter, 50g IMR 4350, maybe 51. I don't remember. It was in 1995 and I think that the little Micro Medallion was wearing a .... um....cough....well it was a .....well it was a 3-9X40 Simmons.
haha, a Simmmons huh, well at least we know you can hit with it.
Nice shootin 30-30 there. What scope you running on it?
Thanks!
I was using a Bushnell 3200 fixed 10X but it died about 10 shots after that. I replaced it with another exactly the same, but it died in less than 200 shots.
I now use a Williams FP peep on it.
Thanks again!
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