Shooters and Hunters: What's Your Best Ever Distance / Accuracy Personal Record?

[krizzose]

I’m a casual rifle shooter, but I do practice a few times a year with my deer rifle (Ruger Mk II .270 Win) to maintain the feel and to check the zero. I hunt in the northern part of Michigan’s lower peninsula: cedar swamps, pine plantations, and some mature maple/beech forests. My longest deer kill was only 165 yds, so not even close to the effective range of my equipment. I practice at 200 sometimes, and would feel comfortable at that distance on a deer, but that’s exceedingly unlikely to happen in the tight cover I hunt in. 80% of my deer I’ve shot within 75 yds, and most of those within 50.

I did take the best score in the accuracy qualifications in my CPL class of about a hundred people, but I was using a Ruger Mk II .22LR with a long target barrel. Others were using all manners of pistols, including snub nosed .38s and large frame 44 mags. And it wasn’t a strict competition, just a basic accuracy qualification. In other words, not exactly a true test of anything

 

[Buffalo]

At the gun club I belonged to in Omaha, we had a Swiss rifle league. Mil-surp, iron sight, bolt action rifles out to 600 yards. I wasn't the best shot of the group, but I wasn't the worst also. I was shooting a Mosin Nagant that I bought for a whopping $97. When I bought it, it wouldn't shoot minute of man, but after recrowning the barrel, it was better, 3" groups at 100 yards, which was decent for that gun.

A couple years later in that league, I was able to buy a k98 from another club member and it was night and day difference between Ivan's old gun.

When I was shooting Cowboy Action, there was a long range side match where we would shoot Sharps and Rolling Blocks out to 1000 yards. Got into that, shot quite a few side matches, but then covid hit and basically put the shooting sports on hold, been too busy with other things to devout much time back into it.

 

[Sobrbiker]

I shot long range precision rifle comps for years, NRA Highpower, and Rifle and Smallbore Silhouette for years.
I took up big game hunting a while back after the crash of 08-10, since my line of work was affected and I got a city job (no more flying to matches shooting thousands of rounds a year).
I can still make 70-80% cold bore shots on steel at half a mile, but I’d never chance that with an animal-that’s shooting, not hunting in my book.
Ballistics are science, especially elevation, but the most important value in a ballistics chart to me when hunting is time of flight. Too much can happen once you start passing 3/4 of a second flight time.

That said, my best long distance kill was a a solo archery Coues deer hunt-heart shot at 94yds. Conditions were perfect and I don’t expect the stars to line up like that again.
I have taken coyotes at just under 900yds though, but they’re different. They kill what I try to put in the freezer.

 

[btp79]

Couple of years back I shot a limit of white wing with less than 5 boxes of shells. I was pretty excited about that!