I was hunting Montana for Mule Deer and had a doe tag left .We saw one up the valley and the guide ranged it at 505 yards.I got down on my bipod. Just as I started to pulled the trigger the leg on the bipod slipped as the gun went off.Knowing I missed I stood up .The guide slapped me on the back and said good shot.I looked up on the hill and there laid my doe.My friend and I walking up to the the doe and my friend said he saw dirt fly when I shot.Sure enough ten feet in front of the deer was a mark on a rock.It had hit the rock and caught the deer in the neck and dropped her.The guide said how was going to explain this one .I said every one can hit one straight on how many can bank one in
Have you ever had a what the h--l shots?
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jjmp
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Nice story well said!!! Thks
HARPERC
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Very similar. I shot an antelope from the front of my ATV. Just before the trigger broke the ATV "settled". 475 yards if I remember. Lots of daylight between crosshairs, and the buck. Partner says you got him. Someplace along the way the rear scope base had sheared off in my favor.
Varmint Hunter
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When I picked up my buddy at his treestand he told me that he got a shot at a nice buck just inside the treeline but missed. When asked if he was certain that he missed he said yeah because he actually saw the bullet hit a tree trunk.
I decided to look for myself and sure enough you could see where the bullet impacted the trunk and skipped off with a chunk of bark. We were just standing around talking when I noticed an antler up in the air about 50yds away. I walked over and found a fresh killed 8 point buck. The only wound on the buck was a slash through the leg which bled him out as he laid up.
Yup - another bank shot. If I wasn't there myself I would never believe this story.
I decided to look for myself and sure enough you could see where the bullet impacted the trunk and skipped off with a chunk of bark. We were just standing around talking when I noticed an antler up in the air about 50yds away. I walked over and found a fresh killed 8 point buck. The only wound on the buck was a slash through the leg which bled him out as he laid up.
Yup - another bank shot. If I wasn't there myself I would never believe this story.
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Hahahaha!!! That's one way to do it!!!
Leslie Sapp
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My sister shot a 10 pt buck with a marlin 45/70 guide gun. She hit a 6" cedar tree instead. The bullet went through the tree, hit the deer right behind the ear and lodged in the skull!
How slow do you suppose a 45/70 has to be going before it won't exit a deer skull?
How slow do you suppose a 45/70 has to be going before it won't exit a deer skull?
lancetkenyon
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1201 yard......squirrel.
We were out doing some final long range verification before elk season. Squirrel season has just opened the week before. Shooting from 545 to 1600+.
.300RUM pushing a 230 Hybrid @ 3068. I was just settling in to shoot at 1181, when a squirrel popped up on a rock behind my target. I reranged him, and adjusted POA. He was on top of a rock angled at 45° up. My spotter (thank goodness he was there to witness it) freaked out. Bullet hit about 2" below him, and shrapnel blew him about 10' in the air off the rock. Needless to say, he did not move after he landed. I figured if I could kill a squirrel @ 1201 yards, should be able to hit an elk that far too.
We were out doing some final long range verification before elk season. Squirrel season has just opened the week before. Shooting from 545 to 1600+.
.300RUM pushing a 230 Hybrid @ 3068. I was just settling in to shoot at 1181, when a squirrel popped up on a rock behind my target. I reranged him, and adjusted POA. He was on top of a rock angled at 45° up. My spotter (thank goodness he was there to witness it) freaked out. Bullet hit about 2" below him, and shrapnel blew him about 10' in the air off the rock. Needless to say, he did not move after he landed. I figured if I could kill a squirrel @ 1201 yards, should be able to hit an elk that far too.
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In my mind this visual is hilarious .
Squirrel season was open!
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MagMan
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Older friend of mine shot a whitetail at a steep downhill angle roughly 80 yards away. Just brushed the brisket. Knocked the hair off but never went through the skin. Died in seven steps. I'm still perplexed....
ruby76
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My earliest hunting memory as a kid was grouse hunting with a .22, killing two with one shot. I remember my uncle giggling saying you got two!
codyadams
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Lol so my sister was on a meat hunt, it was open for any deer including doe/fawn. She was hunting with an iron sighted winchester 1895 in 30-06. She was walking through timber when up a draw she saw what she thought was a doe deer standing in the open. She thought it was within the 200-250 yard point blank range of the rifle, but was wrong. She lined up on the shoulder and sent it....a puff of dust way in front of the deer then it dropped in its tracks. She was by herself, my father and I a couple hundred yards away. We walked over to her as she was getting to the deer.....a fawn, that still had spots!! (Completely legal kill, however hillarious) And when I ranged the tree she fired from....347 yards ha ha, her bullet skipped right into the shoulder of this fawn. We gutted it, and I carried it out over my shoulder, it weighed about the same as our german shorthair retriever ha ha she never lives that one dowm at hunting camp.....after shooting anything, when she glasses one on a ridge, or spots one out hunting, we ask if she checked it's lips for milk ha ha. She smacks me every time
