Most awe inspiring shot by someone you care about?

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I was about 9 and living on a small farm out in the country. We had a pond on our property and I had my fishing rod out practicing my casting in the back yard. Had one of those extra large sinkers on it for distance and happened to put too much "flip" in my cast. The line shot up over the power line running from the pole in our back yard to the house and the sinker proceeded to flip around the line several times.

I just knew I was going to get in trouble with my father but of course I had to tell him what happened. I could cut the line but that would have still left 15 feet of line dangling off the power wire. He looked at my fishing pole hanging in the air, went in the house, and came out with our little .22 rifle. It was a semi-auto, probably a Marlin Mod 60, although I can't remember well enough to be sure. It also had a low power scope on it.

I asked him, "what are you going to do with that?"
Dad; "I'm going to cut your fishing line up near the power line"

I figured he was crazy. No way was someone a good enough shot to cut a fishing line with a .22 rifle.

Bang! My fishing pole falls to the ground and the lead sinker falls next to it with 2 feet of line attached. He hadn't shot the sinker, just cut the line.

I just stood there with my mouth hanging open. At that moment if my father had told me he was going to pick up the car with one hand I would have believed him. I realize that today at 15 feet I could probably (I said probably) do the same thing. But at the time it was the most awesome thing I'd ever seen.


What kinds of shooting feats have your friends and loved ones done that just blew you off your feet?
 
When I was 10-11yrs old my father drove log trucks. Every Sat we would go out to the company shop & dad would PM his truck. It was a small company 4-5 drivers but they all would be out there working & BSing. Dad bought us those Daisy single pump bb guns when we were younger. He "Up graded" us to more powerful pellet rifles but that day we brought out our Daisy's so some of the other drivers kids could shoot. Dad was always known for being a "Dead eye" shot. One of the drivers bet dad $5 he couldn't hit a quarter flipped into the air with one of the Daisy bb guns. Next thing you know, that other drivers wanted a piece of the action. I got to flip the quarter & I can remember hearing the "Ping" of the bb hitting that quarter as I type this now. Of course as us men are, once was luck so there was a double or nothing round. "Ping". Dad asked if they wanted to triple or nothing but he got no takers. Dad took all us kids (Drivers kids as well) out for burgers & ice cream for lunch that day.
 
Back when I first started dating my wife, I took her to the shooting range for what must've been our 2nd out together, and while setting up (open, unofficial range BTW), I'd already placed several milk jugs filled with water about 120 yards downrange. I then handed my girlfriend at the time an AK out of the trunk, chamber empty, safety on, but loaded mag. I told her to hold it while I grabbed more stuff out of the trunk, then I would show her how to use it.

As I was digging around in the trunk with my back turned, I heard 4 shots ring out. I looked down range and to my amazement, there were two water jugs laying on their side, shredded and destroyed, with water puddles around them. I then looked behind me at my girlfriend and she stood there smiling at me while she clicked the safety back on. I was speechless. I ended up marrying her and I gave her the AK because she loved it and wanted it much more than I did. I would've sold that AK if it wasn't for her. She's definitely a keeper.
 
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Shortly after my wife and I were engaged, I took her shooting at an indoor range. She had grown up in NYC (Garden City) and guns were certainly not common among her family, so it was a little awkward for her to be around guns. I started her out with a Ruger MKII Target model and she wasn't all that good, hardly keeping all shots on the paper at 10 yards.

The next model, at her request, was with one of my 1911s. The loads were 200gr SWC over a light charge of Bullseye. The very first shot, I kid you not, was dead center square in the bullseye of the target. I would say beginner's luck if she didn't continue to show a natural propensity towards the 1911 (scoring a couple more bullseyes during the session and keeping all the shots on the paper in fairly tight groups).

We've only been married 5 years, but that RIA is still her favorite pistol, more so than the Kimber Classic Custom that's much prettier. It's "her" pistol now. Anything to keep her interested in shooting/firearms is fine with me.


His and Hers 1911... "mine's" the pretty one. Go figure.
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One summer our family visited one of my uncles at his summer piece of property. It had a large pond and a rv trailer. A place to just to hang out for the weekend. My Father was a Korean War Vet and never even talked about the war. A water snake started swimming at the other end of the pond. Without a word my father picked up a Mauser bolt action rifle (iron sights no scope) that was leaning against the rv aimed and shot in the same motion and blew the head of the snake off in one motion. He set the gun back in the same motion. Everybody just looked in amazment. The distance on the swimming snake must have been 150 feet. I never saw my father shoot a gun before the snake or after....Russ
 
Actually it was me who made the shot. I shot a crow in the head at 190 yards. That's pretty good but I have to tell you, the rifle I was using was hard to miss with, so I'm guessing anyone who had that rifle could have made that shot. It's a Ruger Varmint Rifle in 6mm. Lots of people like to throw around the words "tack driver" but this was an actual one...
 
Before we fixed a drainage problem in our backyard, a large stagnant puddle would appear after a heavy rain.
During the warm months, dragonflies and other water-loving critters would visit, hover, etc.
Occasionally my father would loose a few shots from my assorted BB guns at nothing in particular (we had a thicket of woods as a backstop)
One day I came home from school and he pointed to a dead dragonfly floating in the puddle, and explained that after cocking the lever action Daisy, he saw the darting movement, and by pure reflex let off a single shot that took it down instantly.

Since I care about myself I'll also mention:

The time I spied a white worm sticking out of some accumulated sandy soil in the drainage grate at the same house. Without even thinking about it, I threw a thin stick through this grate, and without intending to, speared that worm right in the middle.
The time I saw a big, meaty fly in an office building kitchenette. I grabbed a rubber band, stepped back into the room, and from about six feet away shot the fly dead with one shot. The person next to the now-dead fly said, "did you just do what I think you did?" and spent the next hour or so roaming the halls telling people about the shot I made.
The time I was shooting off a "jet disc" gun in my room. I was all of 11 years old, and loved those, "jet disc" guns, and sometimes liked just to shoot the walls to watch them zing around a room. One of them seemed to vanish into thin air, and it took me a while to realize why. At the time I owned a magnifying eyepiece called a comparator. Incredibly, the disc basically flew at a perfect, shallow angle, going right into the tiny gap between the convex part of the lens and the top bezel of the instrument. The diameter was perhaps a milimeter or two wider than the disc.
 
Several times as a little kid, I watched mom and dad shoot kitchen matches off a fence post to see who would do dishes. Mom lighted the match almost as often as dad. I never have been able to light a match.

Took a good friend to the trap range I worked at in my teens. Goning to show him how to shoot trap. Got to watch him hit seven of ten on his first try,,,,,,,,,,,with a .22 rifle.
 
One just recently.
I taught my friend's boys to shoot when they were young and taught his 16 year old daughter last year.

A while back they were all lined up shooting. The two girls were shooting paper targets with S&W J Frames. The boy was shooting 5 hanging, spinning targets (this is some fast fun shooting).
I was taking pictures.

As I walked up behind the girl to see how she was doing she said, "I shot my brother's targets a couple times but he didn't notice.
I said, "Shoot the string. He will notice that".
So the next shot she shot the string dropping her brother's target to the ground.:)

She and I were laughing because we were the only ones in on the joke.
The boy was telling his Dad, "I don't know what happened. I wasn't even shooting at that target".:D
 
e67- I do not believe it's possible to cut a fishing line with a bullet from a 22 rifle. Not a question of marksmanship (which would be truly fantastic) but of physics. The round nose of the bullet can't sever the thin, rounded fishing line. If hit it would simply slide off.

I suspect that something else happened but after so many years you recall the incident differently than the way it actually occurred.
 
e67- I do not believe it's possible to cut a fishing line with a bullet from a 22 rifle. Not a question of marksmanship (which would be truly fantastic) but of physics. The round nose of the bullet can't sever the thin, rounded fishing line. If hit it would simply slide off.

I suspect that something else happened but after so many years you recall the incident differently than the way it actually occurred.
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Are you serious? You think mono fishing line would "roll" off of a bullet traveling at over 1200fps? There always needs to be a smart guy to ruin a good story.
 
So you're saying that if I wove myself a suit out of fishing line, I could withstand all .22s?
 
We had a few of my ex-wife's crappy sweaters on targets. My girlfriend put eight shots in at 50 meters center-of-mass. With a Hipoint 45. In low-light. With one hand.
 
Mythbusters was unable to sever a rope with a bullet as seen in the western movies. A bullet would not cut the rope but slide around it. Fishing line would be even tougher being smaller.

I still not believe it can be done and simply stating "yes it can" is not good enough. Prove it, Russ.

Hunterdad- Do I think line would roll off a bullet at 1200 FPS? Yes, I do. Doesn't matter how fast the projectile is going, the shape of the bullet would not allow it to "bite" the line and cut it.

I have some fishing line. Next time at the range I'll set it and try it. If I can cut the line I will acknowledge that I was wrong.
 
My son, with a Savage .223 bolt rifle. He shot a groundhog at 450 paces with one shot. I still hear about it from time to time.
 
Grandpa and the match

I was about 6 years old and was watching Dad and Papaw shooting their K frames on the ranch at matches. Papaw had lines of matches setup about 30 yards out. On one cylinder he lit all six matches in a row. I'll never forget that day at the ranch or the many wonderful memories made. Papaw passed away from leukemia a few years later...I never got to shoot next to him as i was a state away from him and just learning to shoot that year. But he sent me my first gun, a Red Ryder, the Christmas just before that year.

Somethings are more precious than gold and diamonds.
 
OK so I hang a bunch of rifle and pistol brass by strings through the primer holes primer side up and tire a knot. At 50 YDS I shoot at them with a .22 sized firearm. After there are 3-4 holes in them I shoot the string/fishing line or whatever and they drop to the ground. Done it hundreds of times. Now a string hanging down with no weight at end I think would not work. A 45 brass with a bullet hole DOES indeed work. When it warms up a little I will try a video for those that say Y'a can't.:neener:

As for this post a couple of friends and I were out shooting .22s one fine summer day. A Canada Jay was bothering us and making a racket My two friends both shot at the same moment almost and the bird fell. 2 Bullet holes a 200' in that bird out of a swaying tree. Not bad.:D
 
Well if they couldn't do it on Mythbusters it MUST be true!!!!!! In your attemp to discredit someone else, you turned out to be the foolish one. I've seen people cut a rope shooting at it. It can & has been done thousand of time.

"They couldn't do it on Mythbusters" Theres a guy at work that says this all the time. It's widely accepted that he's a "****"
 
"Well if they couldn't do it on Mythbusters it MUST be true!!!!!! In your attemp to discredit someone else, you turned out to be the foolish one. I've seen people cut a rope shooting at it. It can & has been done thousand of time.

"They couldn't do it on Mythbusters" Theres a guy at work that says this all the time. It's widely accepted that he's a "****" "

Calling me a fool and apparently a "****." Are you this brave in person?

I realize Mythbusters is a TV show but they take a very scientific approach to their experiments.

Go video yourself doing it. Until then I do not believe you. I deal in demonstrable facts, not hearsay. You, on the other hand, deal in unsubstantiated claims and insults.
 
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