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Closest and farthest shots

Posted By: Chance Weldon

Closest and farthest shots - 10/21/2013 6:23 PM

Just out of curiosity, what are the closest and farthest shots y'all have ever taken while hunting with a handgun?
Posted By: Whitworth

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/21/2013 7:15 PM

I've been close enough to create powder burns, and the longest shot to date has been about 125 yards with a red dot-type sight.

Forgot to add that this is all with revolvers.
Posted By: Ernie

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/21/2013 7:22 PM

All kinds of handguns or just revolvers and semi-autos?
Posted By: rleprechaun

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/21/2013 7:43 PM

Farthest shot 250 yards on an antelope. Closest shot about 30 yards on a whitetail deer.
Posted By: Chance Weldon

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/21/2013 8:11 PM

 Originally Posted By: Ernie
All kinds of handguns or just revolvers and semi-autos?


Any handgun.
Posted By: Gregg Richter

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/21/2013 9:06 PM

Ernie is probably sure to have the longest; probably on both big and small game!

;\)


My son Joe has a good story on a short shot on a big muley buck. I will see if I can get him to post it.

I killed a mule deer buck at 356 yards with my 30-06 JDJ Encore. I revolvered a mule deer buck at 19 yards with my .454.
Posted By: Gregg Richter

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/21/2013 9:09 PM

 Originally Posted By: Whitworth
I've been close enough to create powder burns, and the longest shot to date has been about 125 yards with a red dot-type sight.

Forgot to add that this is all with revolvers.


Cool Whit; I would like to hear the powder burns story!

;\)
Posted By: 45colttc

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/21/2013 9:09 PM

83 yards with a 44 mag contender.
Posted By: reflex264

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/21/2013 10:12 PM

15' with a .44 special target bulldog, 200 yards with my 30-06 Encore. Longest shot with a revolver was with a .44 special Taurus 441T target model with a 4x scope. 112 yards. reflex264
Posted By: Bullelk Hunter

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/21/2013 10:55 PM

Closest singed hair on a WhiteTail doe with my .44, longest is my 6x6 Bull in 1996 with my TC SSK Contender 375JDJ...175yards. I also have a big fat doe at 145 yards with my contender; 10" 30 Herrett and a 125 Nosler Balistic Tip...trust me, this one wasn't devastating but it did put her down within 40 yards.
Posted By: billa

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/22/2013 12:28 AM

Closest - whitetail doe 20 yards - S&W 629 44 mag with 2x scope right in the eye. No blood shot steaks, no blood trail to follow

Longest big game - pronghorn buck 350 yards - TC Contender 358JDJ with 4x scope. Side lung shot.

Longest varmint - 410 yds groundhog - with Contender .223 Rem with 12x scope.
Posted By: rlb

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/22/2013 1:41 AM

68 yds, closest and furthest since I've only killed one deer. Other targets like rocks and such have varied ranges.
Posted By: wheeler45

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/22/2013 4:02 AM

The closest was a 5 yard squirrel with a Freedom Arms Mini-Revolver .22, and the farthest was a 170 yard pronhorn with an XP-100 .308.
Posted By: dhom

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/22/2013 9:49 AM

My close shot was 21yds with a 44 mag on a 250lb hog and my longest 127 lasered yds with a 30-30 contender on a whitetail doe.
Posted By: tyler.woodard04

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/22/2013 12:27 PM

around 3 yards with a 22/45 on a chuck and 630 yards with the 6BRX striker on a chuck. deer both does 100 yards with 7WSM striker and 496 with 6BRX striker
Posted By: Danie

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/22/2013 2:07 PM

My closest was this hunting season on a Blue Wildebeest cow at just under 20 paces and the farthest was at a Blue Wildebeest bull well over 200 yards. Both was hunted with my 12 inch 357 Herrett TC.
Posted By: TOBY458

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/22/2013 2:21 PM

Closest was an 8pt whitetail buck directly under my tree stand. So I'd say 16'.
Farthest was maybe 80 yds on a doe.
Posted By: wtroper

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/22/2013 2:43 PM

326 yards on a blackbuck with a 7-30 Waters contender was my longest. Shortest revolver shot would be 87 yards on an Axis buck.
Posted By: nuclearweasel

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/22/2013 3:19 PM

Whitetail doe13 steps from the back of my blind with a 10'' contender in .41 mag and 165 yards whitetail spike with a 14'' 30-30 contender.
Posted By: bearskinner

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/22/2013 4:24 PM

Using my 375JDJ contender super 14, on a caribou hunt in Alaska, out on the tundra barrens. I crawled as close as possible to 4 Bull Caribou. When they spotted movement, I stopped, laying prone took a (later measured with a laser rangefinder)318 yard shot, thru the heart. I've also had to step OFF the trail to shoot several hogs running towards me on the same trail. I could have pistol whipped them on the way by, but much more effective to take a close revolver shot. so Ill say a 1 foot shot
Posted By: Okie Hunter

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/22/2013 6:59 PM

The longest that sticks in my mind was a trotting coyote. I rested my 14 inch 223 Contender off the top of a t-post and dropped it in its tracks at about 200 yards. As for the shortest I've shot rats with 22 shot shells. (Not sure that counts.)
Posted By: racksmasher1

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/22/2013 11:33 PM

Farthest was 90 yards on 2 different deer, one was a little 8 pt. with a 308 Encore, the other was a Ohio 10 pt. with my 460 Encore. My closest was a little 3 pt. shot at 20 yards with my Glock 20.
Posted By: cottonstalk

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/23/2013 9:29 AM

farthest 125 yards give or take a yard 45 colt
closest barrel touching, first time 357 mag
Posted By: Chance Weldon

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/23/2013 10:27 PM

So I averaged everyone's responses, and I came up with an average longest shot of 216 yards and an average closest shot of 22 yards. Interesting.

Thanks for the responses everyone.
Posted By: tradmark

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/24/2013 4:15 AM

Revolvers only for me. Furthest was a fallow doe at 158 yards laser ranged with my 10" 454 offhand with iron sights. Closest was a hog with my srh 454 at 10 yards this does not count "stopper" shots at my friends ranch on clients wounded oryx or aoudad
Posted By: wapitirod

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/24/2013 5:33 AM

revolvers would be 115yds on a running coyote and shortest would be about 10yds on a deer. Single shots would be 110 on a deer and 253 on a bull elk.
Posted By: Recoil

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/24/2013 9:32 AM

Closest shot-cow elk 15 feet. Longest shot-5 point bull elk 250 yards.
Posted By: Ernie

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/24/2013 12:50 PM

Closest was a whitetail buck under 25 yards.
Furthest big game: Buck antelope 1037 yards.
Furthest varmint: PD past a mile.
Posted By: campbellkids

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/25/2013 2:20 AM

Longest, 223 contender with 4 power scope, a fat chuck sitting on a slash pile at 150 yards. Lots of close shots on rabbits, pine hen, etc closer than 10 feet.
Posted By: s4s4u

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/25/2013 3:13 AM

I haven't killed anything far off enough to brag sbout. But there was a black bear and a 5x5 Whitetail buck that got within 15 yards.
Posted By: Tuner

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/25/2013 3:41 AM

Closest shot was a cockroach with a Crossman M600 co2 semi auto .22 cal. pellet pistol about 55 years ago. Longest shot was a WT deer at about 100 yards with a Super 14" Contender chambered for the 308 Bellm.
Posted By: Bisley45

Re: Closest and farthest shots - 10/27/2013 2:54 PM

Longest and shortest for my fourteen year old son was a two hundred yard shot at an antelope with my Bisley 45 Colt. He hit that antelope square between the eyes. It was the first living thing he had ever aimed a firearm at. I get more of a thrill out of watching my kids harvest an animal than shooting one myself.
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