While we were sitting around the other day .......well one word gave the other and the subject was : How far can you shoot and hit something (on a regular basis !) with a handgun ?? Now all you pistoleros , how far do you reach out and what do you use ??

Well I can use my SRH with 7 1/2" barrel to hit a 9" paper plate at about 65 yds consistently freehand. And the same paper plate can be hit easily at 220 yards with the Encore. That is the longest I have shot with it so far. Need to find a larger gravel pit. Slim

My best shot with a pistol was a Ruger Super Redhawk 44mag 91/2 BBL I got a deer at 90yd with open sights and with a Competitor Single shot in 308 14" BBL I shot a deer at 295yds and with my Conteder in 358 JDJ 14" BBL I shot 2 deer the some day 1st at 251yds and the 2nd at 291yds

IHMSA competitors regularly shoot the 50 meter chickens at 200 meters for tie breakers. The target is about 8-10 inches around. Shooting freestyle, they hit 5 to 10 of them consistently out of 10 shots. My personal best was a 200 yard groundhog with my Ruger SBH.

100yds with my 4 inch Colt Python at a 2'x2'
piece of card board.

My best shot to date is with a savage striker in 308, 150gr 2600fps. The shot was off of a modified field rest/tripod and measured an honest 290yds. It was a neck shot on a small island spike that dropped him in his tracks. We even got it on home video. I'm still surprised !

I have just purchased a new SuperBlackhawk (7 1/2 inch barrell- 44 mag) and have put 300 rounds of handloaded 200 grain xtp's thru it. I can hit a 6"x6" piece of plate steel 7 out of 10 at 100 yards with a freehand butt rest. I will be practicing at 150 yards in the spring just to improve my shooting ability and confidence. I do feel 100 yards will be my personal limit with my SBH (open sights). I almost bought a Hunter model to incorporate a scope but decided I wanted to be an open sight shooter.

When I was still shooting IHMSA silhouette, a group of us shooters from Raleigh got together and went to the annual 500 yard match in Charlottesville, VA.

Metallic silhouettes were set up at:
Chicken - 200 yards
Pig - 300
Turkey - 400
Ram - 500

5 sighter rounds were allowed for each distance.

It was interesting/amusing to see one guy shooting his .44 mag Freedom Arms revolver... Talk about "holdover"!!!

Steve Cole (Charlottesville) had an XP100 for sale that I bought at that match. It was chambered in 7 IHMSA, which is a 300 Savage necked down to 7mm.
He let me try it out, and I hit about three chickens in a row before saying "I'll take it."

I then began using my phenomenal negotiating skills and drove him down from $425 all the way to $422 before agreeing.

Furtunately, my buddy loaned me 3 bills until we got home (He said if I didn't buy it, he was going to). Then when we got home, he called my wife and told her "I tried to talk him out of buying that gun! But I think he got a pretty good deal for only $600."

So, Saeed, you see we all have our "Walter's" to make our lives interesting!!

Sorry for the rambling - what WAS the topic here, anyway?

Rick.

I shot a crow with my Colt Woodsman at 70 yards, once.

Clay bird at 100 yards with my S&W mod 627, off hand. (Not the first try...) Propped the clay against a dirt bank, got a feel for the hold over, and pop.

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Thanks guys , really interesting to hear what you do once in a while !

I used to shoot reduced pistol silhuette and across the range was a full size ram, about 450 yards. After the shoot we would plink at it with handguns. It was across a valley, which made for interesting holdover and windage, and on a large rock hillside, made spotting rounds easy. I shot almost 100 rounds of 357, hit it a couple times, had a pretty stiff wind to hold into. Used a 45 colt, it got a little better. A friend had a 454 casul, he hit it 4 out of 5 times, and I hit it twice out of 5 shots. What a rush. We had to get several sight-in shots, and I think we held at its nose to hit its rear, and a couple feet over.
As far as hunting, I shot a hawk-sized bird out of a tree with my ruger auto 22 at 75 paces. The stupid thing sat there and let me shoot 3 times at it.
Good luck and good shoooting

At 75 yds with a .22, the shot was just background noise to it, and the bullet was subsonic as it went by.

I owned a Contender in 7mm L&L until last year. My wife and eye drew atelope tags in '99. I took an average buck with 120 gr. Balistic tips at 297 paces (over uneven ground). We figured about 270 yards. one shot - behind one shoulder, out through the other.

Turkey silhoutte at 385 meters with SSK Custom Ruger Super Redhawk 44 magnum (off a BR of course). Off-hand, 200 meter ram silhoutte.

Sorry, this was a duplicate post of the one above.

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Come on guys , give me some more ! It`s truly amazing that some of you are doing the (almost ) impossible , at least by rifle shooters standards !I personally shoot : field pistol scoped ( usually hit 28-30 with my Super Redhawk in .44 Magnum)
Small Bore Unlimited (usually hit 33-35 with my Anschuetz ) and for pleasure a Contender in 7-30Waters Imp. at 100 meters , 5 shots in 1-1,5" from a sandbag , of course!

My personal best...

When I was still shooting IHMSA silhouette, using my Contender in 7mm TCU, T/C Silhouette iron sights, from a standing position, I managed to hit 10 out of 10 turkeys at 150 meters.

Shocked me and the guy next to me who was the state champ (standing).

If I had done that well with the 50m chickens and 100m pigs, I would have ended up with a good score that day.

Rick.