Most awe inspiring shot by someone you care about?

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Took my nephew trap shooting for the first time this summer, 3rd round he went 17
out of 25, he had a run of 11 in a row. Not to shabby for a kid that had never even
held a shotgun until an hour before.
 
If it was a .25 acp the bullet would have bounced off the fishing line!
 
I've got 2 to share. last June my BIL accompanied me on his first prairie dog trip. He popped one at 276 with a Ruger 10-22!
2nd one happened 3 years ago at deer camp. One of the guys got cold and I saw him drive by my stand, stop, get out, and pop a shot at something. With a 30-30 he hit a small buck at a lasered distance of 379 yards. The bullet entered on the front shoulder and exited on the rear chest - practically a mortar shot!
 
Ok. I'll take that challenge. I'm getting dressed right now. I'll either post a video of me cutting a fishing line with a .22lr or I'll call myself a "****".

Fair enough?
 
this last fall, on her 11th birthday, my sister shot 2 does through the neck with one shot from her .243 from about 75 yards in an orange grove
 
The man who taught me to shoot a revolver

He's sadly gone now, but Bill was the man who taught me how to properly work a double action revolver.

He came to a match I put on once. A four stage 'combat' match. The stage in question was three twelve inch gong targets at about seven yards. One began facing 90 degrees from the targets; upon signal, turn and fire two shots at each of the three targets. Time stops on last shot and penalties for misses.

Everyone was standing around in the background, chatting idly and such as things go. Bill came to the line and loaded his four inch S&W 1950 target model, holstered the revolver in a rather ordinary front break duty holster, assumed the starting position and signaled ready. Desultory talk in the background.

The whistle blew and six shots rang out. Sounded like a submachinegun. The time was less than three seconds, the guy working the stop watch - to give some idea of how long ago this was - admitted his might have missed the last shot due to not being ready to stop the watch. All hits and the gongs were still quietly ringing.

All the background talk stopped. Dead quiet. Then a round of applause broke out. One could hear the unspoken 'What? Do that again!' in the crowd.

Bill looked around, unloading his revolver, looked a little sheepish and said,
"Sear broke".
 
I didn't see the mythbusters episode where they tried to shoot the rope in half so forgive me if this was addressed there. The whole discussion is totally moot without specifying the diameter of the rope and the caliber of the bullet. A .22 is not going to cut a 1 inch rope in half with one shot but I promise a 12 gauge slug will part a piece of 1/4 inch rope no problem.
 
The TV show tried to duplicate the old western theme of shooting the rope to save a hanging victim. I think they used a size of rope deemed appropriate for a hanging and I think they used a 45 Colt revolver or maybe a 44-40 carbine. They hit the rope but the slug just pushed past without damaging it. A 22 would be even worse with its tiny frontal area and so would fishing line given its small diameter.

I really didn't mean to sound like I was questioning the OP's honesty, only his recollection. After a time we all remember things differently from what actually happened... just ask my wife.

I will try it for myself soon as the weather gets a little better. I will take rope and fishing line and numerous guns in different calibers but I don't expect to be able to do it.

A 12 Ga. slug might have enough frontal area to cut a rope.
 
I have cut mono-filament fishing line with a 22lr. We used it strung between two poles with paperclips to hang paper targets. If you shot too high you could sever the line and drop all the targets.

(and yes I have checked the paper clips afterward and they were not hit. so it was the bullet doing the severing)
 
realize Mythbusters is a TV show but they take a very scientific approach to their experiments.
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I happen to love mythbusters, but there are plenty of things that are "proven" to have happened that they can't replicate. They are not that knowledgeable in MANY areas, depending only upon the people that they either have access to, or who volunteer to help them. Their shooting myths are IMHO some of the most poorly done episodes (remember shooting through a silver $$).

BTW the shooting through the rope trick has been done on a couple of shows on history. I myself have shot through mason's string with a .22, and don't imagine it would be that much more difficult. Just because Adam and Jamey can't do it, and you can't do it, doesn't = it can't be done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKdKjbc5aQM
 
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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.
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Saxon, I understand the source of your doubt but I'm quite sure of the event because it stands out so vividly in my memory. I can also appreciate how it would be difficult for a bullet to sever a rope line.

But don't forget that rope is made up of many fibers twisted together while a 4lb test monofilament fishing line is only one thin fiber. Also, a .22 is several times wider than a fishing line. It would be similar to a shotgun slug cutting through a piece if twine.
 
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.
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While I did not see the show to know what they did, I imagine a big difference is the weight hanging on the line in the OP's story.
A line that is either heavy or has a weight on one end is going to resist the bullet much longer and be more likely to snap when struck.
The story mentioned by the OP is one where he was casting a line with lead weight on it aka a sinker that got wrapped around a line. I am picturing a line with a weight dangling from overhead electrical wires.
For such purposes it is essentially a line tied on both ends when it is struck.
Since the line is not able to withstand even half the force of the round it snaps long before the weight dangling can accelerate to reduce the tension.
 
I saw my wife shoot a 38 cal. flintlock at an ax blade, severed the ball and broke a couple of clay birds on each side of the ax. This was in a compatation shoot! The toolman.
 
My wife and I were at the NMLRA National Championship Muzzleloading shoot
at Friendship Indiana about 1993. She was shooting the 100 yd. one hand
un-supported pistol match. Pistol matches are all 10 shot. I was spotting thru
a scope and she was going on her 9th shot. The first eight were all in the
black bull. I told her if she shot a "10" on this 9th shot she would win, and she
didn't even have to shoot the last shot. Well let me tell you I was watching
and I saw it go right into the little 3 inch dia. 10 ring. She did shoot the 10th
shot. Wonderful 100 yd. pistol target. In compentition.
 
I asked around and several folks told me they have seen it done. They said the line must be stretched very tight so it can't wiggle. They also said that except for a couple of professional exhibition shooters it only happened by accident when shooting at targets hung by fishing line. Hitting fishing line by design is marksmanship beyond the ability of the average shooter.

So, I will accept that under ideal conditions if the bullet strikes the line it will cut it. But the one condition that was consistent in the stories is that the line was stretched absolutely taught. Any slack at all and it won't work.

I would still like to try it for myself.
 
Maybe not a really difficult shot, but when I was 15 or 16, I wasn't driving anyway, I went dove hunting with my uncle and some of his buddies. Late in the day I saw my uncle rise up from his hide, shoulder his Parker 20 ga, and bust an incoming dove. Feathers exploded, the birds wings folded, and it started it's death dive. My Uncle, as cool as if he'd practiced over and over, reached out with his right hand and caught the bird in mid-air, and put it in his game pocket and sat back down on his stool.

Now THAT was "cool."
 
when i was about 7-10 i had this old rusty airpellet rifle with crude iron sites on it. i used to shoot flies of this huuuge brick wall during springs when they started coming out from hybernation from about 30-40 yards.

about a month ago i found this gun with my one of my childhood friends(same guy that is in the text below). just the metal parts.since the stock fell out because of loose screws and lost it because of moving and stuff. and i started remembring those shots and was amazed at how good of a shot i was. now 15-16 years later im not even close to the marksmen i was back then...

another story with the same gun was that i sawed of the barrel so it was about 8 inches long, was at my friends place shooting our pellet guns. when this little poor bird lands about 50 yards from us. my friend loaded my "bada**" saw'n of "shotgun" and said check this out and shot in the direction of the bird from the hip.(never actually trying to hit it) well darnit, hit the bird straight in the head.
both in panic getting rid of the evidence before his moms knows what happened.

we still talk today about that freak of nature one in a billion shot and salute that innocent bird shot by those retarded kids...

i got a bunch of other retarded kids getting into trouble with toyguns witch i belive is best to be untold to strangers and only remembered with them who witnessed the shootings. :p

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and yes all kinds of ammo can cut line,be it fishing line or normal rope,be it a 4.5mm pellet gun or a .357 (i dont care what mythbusters say since ive seen it with my own eyes)
 
Tall Tales?

One of the guys who works for me has told me several times of the story about hitting a flying duck with one shot from his Ruger Blackhawk.

Grew up hearing a story about an old timer who hit a running jack rabbit with a single shot .22 handgun that had a bent barrel. Hit it running, from near 100 yards away, with a very fast draw and aim shot.

Kid I went to school with, was said that his grandad could light matches with a Daisy Red Ryder.

I, myself, used to knock pea-gravel off the top rail of the back yard fence with my Daisy.
 
I took my step daughter to the shooting range a few weeks ago. She'd been shooting my AR at 25-50 yards. After a little while of that, I set up a target at 200 yards and had her shoot at that. She did not think she'd be able to hit the target at 200 yards, however, I assured her she would. I explained to her how a bullet travels in an arc, and I have my AR sighted in at 50 and 200 yards.

She proceeded to light up the bad guy on the target with a 30 rd mag at 200 yards.
 
I was deer hunting with a friend when he shot a running deer off-hand with a .284 Winchester lever action at 440 yards. He's an amazing shot.
 
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