d2wing said:
Notice how quickly this turned into a brag board. You just can't make some guys stop with the same unverified claims over and over again.
It's not bragging to tell the truth about an incredible shot that you've made. If you shoot enough rounds you'll get fairly good. If you shoot at enough stuff with slightly better than average skills (which you will gain from shooting fairly often), statistically you're going to eventually make a few remarkable shots. You won't be able to help it.
Would you believe me if I told you I'd hit a bottle cap at 100 yards offhand with a .22LR and open sights? Because I did. It took a lot of rounds - Federal Automatch .22LR from a CZ-452 - to get more than less good enough to get my bullets hitting in the same time zone at that range. Then it took a calm day at the range with no one else around and no wind. The sun was out and that was good, because I needed full sun to even see a tiny little white bottle cap at that distance. Then it took me maybe 25 rounds that day to get settled in.
Then I just flat out nailed a bottle cap shooting offhand at 100 yards.
Would it be better if we lied and said we'd never made shots like that?
No sense in practicing or going out and shooting at small stuff way out there with iron sights. Sorry Timmy, I've never hit anything any smaller than a Chevy at ten feet and you won't either. You might as well give up now. There is no hope. You'll never do anything remarkable with a rifle no matter how much you practice. Go wear out your playstation instead.
That's not exactly encouraging, is it?
I've actually enjoyed hearing some of the remarkable shots others have made in this discussion.
FWIW, I didn't make the best shot I've ever seen made.
A friend hit a clay pigeon rolling on the ground with a compound bow that he hadn't shot in ten years. He just picked it up and shot an arrow through a rolling clay pigeon! It was largely luck, but still, he can say he hit a clay pigeon with a compound bow and half a dozen people saw him do it.