What's Your Longest Shot With A MLer?
#11
Fork horn buck
110 yards
Cascade Magnum, .45 caliber
Bushnell 3 x 9 rifle scope
100 grains T7
.40 cal, 200 grain XTP
Double lung hit, complete pass-thru, deer was DRT
I also made one at 108 yards offhand with the same rifle and load on a doe- neck shot, also DRT
110 yards
Cascade Magnum, .45 caliber
Bushnell 3 x 9 rifle scope
100 grains T7
.40 cal, 200 grain XTP
Double lung hit, complete pass-thru, deer was DRT
I also made one at 108 yards offhand with the same rifle and load on a doe- neck shot, also DRT
#13
Well to be quite honest, my longest shot was about 55 yds open sighted T/C Hawken Green Mtn LRH .50 cal. But although the shot wasn't far, the challenge was that the whitetail doe was on a flat out run left to right. After the shot she ran less than 40 yds and piled up after my 300 gr XTP ruptured her heart. Shot was probably more luck than skill. But I'll take it. Every other animal I shot was well within the 50 yd mark.
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Rapid City, South Dakota
Posts: 3,732
Well, i don't really know. When i made the longest shot, i had no range finder. It couldn't be paced, because it was on the other side of a semi-deep drainage. The gps say it was 230 yard. However, them gps are never 100% accurate.
The deer was sleeping, and never was able to get up. When i arrived at the deer, it was still alive, and when i moved it to better cut it's throat, i discovered it wasn't paralyzed. Opening the deer, revealed somehow, the bullet passed between the top of the lungs, and the bottom of the spine. The bullet didn't really hit anything. The deer seemed paralyzed, and i think it was because of the bullet passing near the spine. The bullet was the 270g Deep Curl.
This year i carried a range finder, and hit a deer at a measured 173 yard. It was a bad shot that broke it's back. I was too shaky standing on my hind legs, and shooting off the tall bipod.
The deer was sleeping, and never was able to get up. When i arrived at the deer, it was still alive, and when i moved it to better cut it's throat, i discovered it wasn't paralyzed. Opening the deer, revealed somehow, the bullet passed between the top of the lungs, and the bottom of the spine. The bullet didn't really hit anything. The deer seemed paralyzed, and i think it was because of the bullet passing near the spine. The bullet was the 270g Deep Curl.
This year i carried a range finder, and hit a deer at a measured 173 yard. It was a bad shot that broke it's back. I was too shaky standing on my hind legs, and shooting off the tall bipod.
#17
I've had two stepped off at approximately 75-80y. Both were with my Optima Elite using 100gr of 777 pellets under 250gr SSTs with the low drag sabots. The first was off the rail of a tree stand while my rifle was scoped. Broadside, double lung, didn't run far. The second was the same setup but with open sights. I was sitting against the base of the biggest tree I could find to block the wind because when I washed my coat the night before it didn't get dry. The shot was off of a monopod. Same story. double lung short run.
Good thread and some great shots!
rw
Good thread and some great shots!
rw
#19
You guy's need to get better watches. My longest is 15 yds with a ML'er and about 70 with a CF.
To the original poster. If my 4th shot was a long way away from the other 3, I wouldn't be taking that shot at that range. 25% chance of wounding a deer is not fair to the animal IMO.
HA
To the original poster. If my 4th shot was a long way away from the other 3, I wouldn't be taking that shot at that range. 25% chance of wounding a deer is not fair to the animal IMO.
HA
#20
It was 100 yards for me (paced off after the shot).
Knight BK92
Leupold 1.75x6 VX3 set at 3x
100 grains of T7
Hornady .430 300 grain in MMP green sabot
Whitetail doe top of heart and both lungs
Left a 5 foot wide blood trail
ran 40 yards (paced off)
Knight BK92
Leupold 1.75x6 VX3 set at 3x
100 grains of T7
Hornady .430 300 grain in MMP green sabot
Whitetail doe top of heart and both lungs
Left a 5 foot wide blood trail
ran 40 yards (paced off)