Your best shot with a handgun intentional or not

[Buckeye63]

Bout 20 years ago .. at my Brother in laws farm .. hanging out with a couple of nephews .. we spotted a ground hog out in the pasture.. my brother in law had been watching for it for a few days .. he started to go get his rifle .. when I told him let me try with my handgun .. I had a Taurus 22mag revolver with a 4 inch barrel in my truck .... I tried to get as close as I could, without sending it back i to its hole ..
I got what I thought was 80 yds , turned out 125yds
I steadied my hand on a fence post .. cocked it , aimed at the top of the GH head and squeezed the shot .. dirt flew .. my shot hit at its feet .. it went in the hole .. I missed .. but .. if I would had known it was at 125yds .. Id done a bit more hold over ... Id got it .. After that ..I did some long distance shooting with the little revolver.. and was surprised ... a buddy of mine did some excellent shooting at the range with it .. enough for him to aggressively trade me out of it ... I came out way ahead in the trade .. but he still has the Taurus.. and its on his side when he is on his farm .. and he has collected several coyotes , foxes .. ground hogs and such with it

My best shot was a near miss ...

 

[Don_P]

Very intentional. 15 yards, off hand. Done it quite a few times. Usually takes 2 or 3 shots before I hit it.

 

[Johnm1]

I'm sure I've told this story before. Probably someplace on this forum but apparently not in this thread. Gotta be somewhere close to 1983 and I'm hunting dove in Central Texas with a pair of brothers who's family had some property in really good dove hunting habitat (that by the way is about all of Texas). Anyway these guys compete at skeet and are real good. Me, I plod along hoping to get a couple of birds before run out of the 4 boxes of ammo a brought. The morning ends and I have a couple and the rest of the group limited out a couple of hours ago. But, I brought my Series 70 Gold Cup. My pride and joy. I can't shoot it much better than my shotgun at that point, but it is nice and near pristine. The younger brother wants to try it and I hand him an empty gun and a full 7 round magazine. I toss my soda can out around 10-15' on the ground and he takes 4 shots and misses the can with all of them. Dejected, he drops the magazine and ejects the round in the chamber and hands it back to me with the slide locked back and a sigh. I proceed to slap in the magazine with two rounds in it, drop the slide and in the same motion point shoot hitting the can, popping it up in the air about a foot or so and with the second shot hit it while it is still in the air and push the can back to the ground.

I dropped the magazine, released the slide and holstered the gun and with a straight face said "That's how you do it". To this day he thinks I'm that good and if I tried that 10 times every day in the 30 years since I couldn't do that again.

 

[Ranger99]

Some years back I was with a friend
leaving his house and I can't remember
where we were going, but down the
dirt county road from his house was
a decent sized ranch, and as we passed
he noticed a coyote sneaking up to
where there was a bunch of young
cattle and a calf or two. The coyote
would sneak a few steps and lay down.
All I had was a J22 (or some cheap
similar something) and with a little
kentucky windage and much guess
work a 22 stinger kicked dirt up not
a foot from the coyotes nose. It
turned and ran away and the pistol
got emptied in the direction of the
booger. I don't know if any connected
or not, at least it got redirected
from the cattle.

 

[MFInc]

Golf ball about 50 meters with my model 23 glock two shots in a row after I got the drop right.

 

[3Crows]

Years ago I had just gotten a Glock Mod. 22. I took it to the range to run it in. There was an old feller there who was the range keeper and he had a fancy Colt 1911. He kept going on about plastic and junk and not accurate and the usual I hear to this day. Out at 100 yards was a steel plate no bigger than a dinner plate. I took a quick one handed aim and center punched it with my last six rounds. He shut up at that point. I have never been able to hit anything much with that pistol since, beats me. Karma I guess.

Same place, years later, Ruger Blackhawk .45 Colt, another old crotchety range keeper bet me I could not hit a bullseye with that old Ruger because it was not a Colt and only Colts are real etc. Again, a one handed shot, blam, center punched it at 100 yards with my last round. I made a hasty retreat at that before they could find more .45 Colt ammo, .

 

[memtb]

50 years ago, Model 28 S&W, 38 Special 148 grain wadcutter, night time, running (slowly) Nutria Rat. I still remember hearing the impact.....almost as load as the shot! memtb