What is the best shot you have ever witnessed at a live target?

Here is mine; About 40 years ago I was with my dad , next door neighbor and his son (my best friend at the time). My friends dad hit a crow at +300 yards shooting out the window of his truck with a pre 64 featherweight mod 70 in 243 Win With a 6X Kohlmorgan (spelling??) scope.
No 20 # varmint rifle, No bench rest, no sand bag, No techno-Gizmo scope, no range finder.

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I have two, hit a running jack rabbit (one shot) at at 330 paces, (I usually take a about a 36 to 39 inch pace step) using a custom Mauser 6mm. Rem., no rest what-so-ever. Jumped a jack at my feet - one shot kill before he finished his second leap using a little Browning in .222 Rem. Mag. Both rifles were scoped and of the hundreds of running rabbit rifle shot kills made in my life time these two are my most memorable. John303.

My son head shooting a grouse on the fly from the hip with his 10-22.

Last year badger running thru plowed field 281yards with 264 win mag off hand and broadside.

A caribou shot by my buddy a few years ago in Alaska. I ranged it for him with a Swarovski range finder. He fired a single shot at a measured 602 meters (658 yards). The caribou, which was about 400 feet higher elevation than we were, dropped instantly. It took us two hours to climb up to it and when we got there I could see it was a nice, clean, head shot. For the record, my friend spent 30 years in the military, first in the marine corps and then in the army. He was a sniper for most of that time. The rifle was a heavy .300 win mag. It was fitted with a bipod. He built the rifle himself on a Dakota action.

Best shot or lucky shots , I have had both, They are very different. I knew I could hit prairie dog pups at over 400 yards with a Winchester Mdl 70 Varmint 243 Win rifle w/ Leo 6.5-20 X AO scope. My 75 Gr handloads, off a bench rest would shoot sub 1/2 inch 100 Yd groups. It was a fine shooting day with no wind , I called the shots on two pups, got in the prone position got each of them. One year when I lived in Wyoming I test fired my 308 Norma Mag with a three shot group at 100 Yds. That fall went out and fired three more shots and dropped a pronghorn, mule deer, and elk, how about that for luck ?

Is it luck or is it skill when one makes a hard or unbelivable shot.

I head shot a turkey on the fly with the rifle barrel of my combo gun. I clearly remember seeing the cross hairs on the head when I pulled the rifle trigger instead of the shotgun barrel.

I killed a running whitetail through the woods at a measured 220 yards after the shot. I clearly remeember the cross hairs and called the shot high left shoulder.

The better you can shoot the harder the shots you can make.

Mine was a PD I shot at 563 yards from the sitting position with the first shot. Held 4 dots high and 1 dot into the wind. Hit the PD perfectly. Liam Yarborough of Bushnell witnessed the shot.

The rangefinder I used would not measure the range to the PD, but I did range a lone tree at 350 some yards. I guess the PD was 200 yards farther. I judged the wind using the mirage. When we go to the PD we ranged the tree to come up with the total range.

As for the guy head shooting the caribou, I would guess he wasn't aiming for the head...why would you at that range?

What have you witnessed. NOT what have you done. You Braggers! LOL

I was witness to a hell of a shot by a cowboy on horseback when I was helping round up cows one fall. He dropped a coyote running with his pistol at close to two hundred yards. It looked like skill.

I've seen some lucky shots. But when a guy makes one shot that's amazing but misses a lot of easier shots it's not skill. Nate

Years ago I was dove hunting with my best friend when he killed 6 doves flushed from a cotton field with two shots from his 16 gauge Model 12 Winchester (equipped with a Cutts Compensator, no less)...4 with the first shot and 2 with the second shot. He's still a lucky sob.

I witnessed my uncle..

running white tail doe at around 250 yards...called head shot...

I jumped the doe at close range in thick brush, I fired a couple shots, misses, she got behind a small hill and ran down a draw. She came out below both of us, I had no shot whatsoever, too far...my uncle fired one time, I heard a big wet "whump" and the doe disappeared over a small rise in a creek bottom.

I never thought he hit her, I thought the "whump" had to be hitting a mud bank or something down in the creek bottom, I heard him say "in the head" as he walked down to field dress. I know this was not luck, he just has great hand eye coordination, and can really shoot.

When I was a high school freshman, a friend of mine fired his .22 from his hip at a quail as it flushed. The shot was maybe 25 to 30 feet and knocked the quail's head off.

Best shot witnessed was my friend shooting a coyote on a dead run at 400+yds measured by gps. There were three of us and one of my other friends took the first shot at it at a little over 100yds. He missed and sent the dog on a dead run quartering away from us. My buddy called the shot and followed him in his scope for what seemed forever before he touched off the round. Coyote hit the ground face first and didn't move after it.
He was using a 220 Swift with 55gr Vmax or ballistic tip don't remember which brand.

Sitting with a good friend 30 years ago looking for elk when a Magpie flew by and he pulls this ancient High Standard .22 pistol from the holster and shoots the bird as it flew by... The next year we are in the same area sitting looking for elk again with his best friend when another Magpie comes flying toward us. I'm gonna shoot him, my friend announces as he pulls his pistol. Awww says his friend, then my friend shoots the bird out of the air. His friend says lucky shot, I say, No, I've seen him do it before.
Same guy same area, a ranch we guided on for several years when we were in our teens and early twenties, no hunters so we went searching for elk again. We find some and as we are trying to ease up on them in the oak brush they break and run. A spike is stampeding away from us, up and down through the brush. My buddy is watching through his scope and about the 5th or 6th bound, at maybe 80 yards, the elk comes up and my friend whacks him in the back of the head with his .243. We are still friends and while he is no long range kind of shooter, he is still the most talented hunting type of shooter I have ever known. Wish I could shoot like that.

My mate while walking threw up his .22 and bopped a running hare all in one smooth motion.
95mtr shot at a goat with a .22 using subsonics went clean thru her rib cage and dropped her, my friend who 'hallaled'her told me abt it later as i was off chasing another goat.
running hare broadside 45-50 mtrs ruger 10/22 3rd shot.
275 mtrs at a running billy lead 3was one and a half body length still hit him in the hip, the ghillie with me thought it was a great shot, i ofcourse made like i do it everyday.( most notably the rifle was a single shot baikal in .308)

My father 30 yrs ago on a P-Dog town in So. Dak. with his hand built .270 and hand loaded 110 Gr HP bullets. Three dogs standing on one mound, he fired at the middle one which exploded and killed the ones standing on either side!
The second story was my best friend in H.S. We were coming back to town from hunting and saw a Fox Squirrel booking across a pasture to a Cottonwood tree at least 120 yds from the road. Steve stopped the car, stuck his .243 out the window and split his head in half about 20 feet up the tree. I still chuckle to this day!

Mine was a coyote in north central Wyoming. I was on an antelope hunt. The gun was a custom 257 Weatherby.
The coyote was not running full speed but was loping about half speed, quartering away. The shot was in the neck and killed hin instantly. After the shot, we lazered it at 510 yards.

My partner and I were hunting deer on the desert in southern Idaho.It was dusk and we spotted a coyote on a ridge a long ways off.Had a good backstop,so my friend let it fly.Head shot ranged at 440 yards,7mm mag.Lucky? probably,but what a memerable shot.Still talk about it in camp to this day.

My daughter, not a hunter, made an offhand shot with an open sighted Winchester 94/22 mag on a running francolin. She brained it at 25 yards.
Unbelieveble.