Ok, what is the best shot/shots you have seen or accomplished?

Larry (Omaha) · Aug 9, 2021

My witness was a relative shooting 60 yards off hand at a regulation ML pistol target with his 50 cal Lyman GP caplock.
He won the match with a 50xx or 50xxx
Don't have to be targets, critters count too.

Larry

Hatchet-Jack · Aug 9, 2021

On the woods walk at the NMLRA Spring Shoot this year I split this card with my Kibler SMR.

Sidney Smith · Aug 9, 2021

I once watched a man shooting a silhouette target offhand and hitting it each time at 100 yards with a Brown Bess. And to those who say it can't be done, they're wrong. I saw it with my own eyes.

david58 · Aug 9, 2021

Popped a tater hanging at 100 yards, off hand. Using my wife's smoothbore. That's my best (luckiest) one, it warn't a big tater. Best part was taking Mark Baker's money (he and his buddy John picked several of us as being marks to earn their travel money back home from Montana).

deermanok · Aug 9, 2021

You shot a tater?

ohio ramrod · Aug 9, 2021

My shot most worth remembering was in a stake shoot. Earlier in the day I was stung by a wasp on my wrist and had a bad reaction ,my wrist was swelled about twice normal size. We had three person teams and there were two us that had our stakes leaning and held up by a thin splinter.I loaded slowly and carefully and cut the stake. One of the members of the other team asked how I could hit that thin sliver with my wrist so swelled up. I told him that after the shoot was completed (The other teams were still shooting for second and third place). He could go up and inspect our stake. After the shoot he went up and brought back the top of the stake. It had a 45 caliber ball stuck in it. I told him, you don't have to hit the splinter just break it! I had shot 10 grain powder charge and aimed for the top of the stake. The slow ball embeded in the stake and the energy broke the thin sliver. I did not out shoot them, I out thought them!.

Davey Boy · Aug 9, 2021

Beaver Lodge Range in Hope Maine

The muzzleloader guys were shooting paper targets

One shot after the other in the same hole, they all did it

deerstalkert · Aug 9, 2021

my best was wing shooting a flying duck from a moving car. stuck my barrel out the back window and popped that mudhen out of the air!
my father in law talked about it to his dying day.
i didn't have the honesty to tell him it was a nothing shot. we were going the same speed as the mudhen was flying. a stationary shot essentially . dang near 70 years ago. sheesh!.

Stantheman86 · Aug 9, 2021

My best shot with a muzzleloader has yet to happen because I'm at the point where I'm still just happy to see holes in the paper after firing any of my Muzzleloaders. Even at 300, I was ecstatic to see a basketball sized "group" with a Perdersoli Hawken with a tang sight on a target the size of a kitchen table.

dragnetbill · Aug 10, 2021

Hatchet-Jack said:
On the woods walk at the NMLRA Spring Shoot this year I split this card with my Kibler SMR.
View attachment 89040

OK, since it's already teed up, I'll take the swing; You must be joking! :thumb:

Critter Getter · Aug 10, 2021

While still hunting with my buddy I stopped him and asked him to stay still
while i made a shot on a squirrel 75 yards away with my .50 caliber Hatfield. That
has been my most memorable Muzzleloader shot. Greg

fleener · Aug 10, 2021

I once shot a clay bird out of the air at about 70 yards with my .54 cal hawken. It was not planned. The guys to my left where throwing birds, I had just shouldered my rifle to shoot a steel target at 75 yards. A bird that they missed popped into my view so without thinking I shot it out of the air.

In AU a few years ago at the World long range ML match's one of our team mates shot a magpie out of the air. He was shooting at I think the 900 yard target and at around 400 yards the bullet hit the bird as it was flying by. The guy scoring saw it happen. He did get to shoot another shot for score.

Fleener

tenngun · Aug 10, 2021

My small club was demonstrating shooting to the public, and letting folks take a shot.
We were all dressed in our best ‘voo clothes.
We did most of the shooting and ML were still rare to be seen. Much of the public was afraid of them.
So I and another fellow had just shot off a round. And some old boy from the crowd yells’ Injuns is coming, now what you going to do. This other guy and me both had pistols in our me belt. We both drew and shot. We had balloons as targets and in the quick draw we both took out the same ballon.
This was all unplanned but we couldn’t have been more in unison if we tried. Shots were an inch apart his a half inch higher then mine
We just pretended it was normal for us to shoot that well

rafterob · Aug 10, 2021

Ham on a rope at 35 yards. One of our area's premier shooters steps up (first shot taken at the rope) and cuts the rope with one shot. We lost our fund raising butts on that one.

Loyalist Dave · Aug 10, 2021

200 yards 8" steel target, flintlock from a bench
Independence Range at Peacemaker National Training Center
Did not hit it first try...,
300 yards did not hit at all..., but I did scare it quite a bit, as I came close.....

LD

smo · Aug 10, 2021

I didn’t witness the shots, but here’s the target.

Smoothbore,50 yards off hand, 5 shots

RIP Mr. Tip

Josephg · Aug 10, 2021

I was having trouble getting on paper at 200 yards. Mike suggested I shoot at a gong on the 300 yard berm and everyone would watch. Well I was shooting a 700 grain bullet and 100 grains of Swiss 1 1/2. Hit the gong dead center but knocked it clean off the berm. That was fun and got a good laugh from everyone.

Omahkapi'si · Aug 10, 2021

My best so far. 50 yds off hand. That was a good day.

Jakeytoo · Aug 10, 2021

ohio ramrod said:
My shot most worth remembering was in a stake shoot. Earlier in the day I was stung by a wasp on my wrist and had a bad reaction ,my wrist was swelled about twice normal size. We had three person teams and there were two us that had our stakes leaning and held up by a thin splinter.I loaded slowly and carefully and cut the stake. One of the members of the other team asked how I could hit that thin sliver with my wrist so swelled up. I told him that after the shoot was completed (The other teams were still shooting for second and third place). He could go up and inspect our stake. After the shoot he went up and brought back the top of the stake. It had a 45 caliber ball stuck in it. I told him, you don't have to hit the splinter just break it! I had shot 10 grain powder charge and aimed for the top of the stake. The slow ball embeded in the stake and the energy broke the thin sliver. I did not out shoot them, I out thought them!.

I witnessed something similar. The team I was shooting against knocked a big section out of the 2x4 then someone called out, “aim for the top”.

Jakeytoo · Aug 10, 2021

One of my favorites was taken at 200 yards at a ram steel silhouette. Smoothbore.62 cal, rb with 60 grain charge.

Took aim with hold over, squeezed the trigger, gun went off. I was in the process of lowering my gun went we saw the ram go over with a slight delay of the “ting” of ball hitting steel.

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