Ok, what is the best shot/shots you have seen or accomplished?

[Cpt Flint]

I can think of a few that I wish I could call back. Like the five that changed a 50-3 to a 45
at 50 yards on the groundhog at the Nationals.

 

[bigstick6017555]

A number of years ago shortly after buying my T/C .36 Seneca, a friend and I were out ground hog hunting, my T/C and his modern rifle. After some observing of the fields we saw a g-hog up a Mulberry tree having a feast. I felt it too far for me or the gun, so he said let me try with your muzzle loader. I explained my sight picture and sighted distance. He had a good rest lying down, when he touched it off, after a short delay I heard "whack" and the hog fell out of the tree dead. The distance using our steps were approx. 175 yds. The shot hit just under his eye and penetrated about 2 inches. The load was 47 gr. black powder and a .350 patched round ball. Truly a lucky shot, and a case of the ground hog being at the wrong place at the right time, or maybe the wrong time

 

[excess650]

A 15 year old kid on horseback shot a mule deer buck through the shoulders on a dead run at 125yards, DRT. 3 witnesses, and must have been a darned good horse because I didn't get bucked off. Bridger National Forest, November 1974, and guide was still telling the story many years later.

 

[sportster73hp]

Most memorable shot was at a rondevous . Playing card on a swinging arm, 25 yards out. Two shooters hit. Moved out to 50 yards and only the winner hits it . Had video of the 25 yard distance

 

[Grenadier1758]

I'll have to tell this story again.

It was a long time ago at a Rendezvous. Skunk and I were on the line to shoot at our targets when a group showed up talking about how these old time guns made a lot of smoke but weren't very accurate. But they couldn't see any targets. "Whatcha shooting?" "Playing Cards." "Don't see any cards?" "Oh, we are shooting at the edge. We have to split them." Great guffaws from the group of spectators. About that time Skunk stepped to the line and fired his shot. Out of the cloud of smoke half a playing card drifted down the range. My turn and another half a card floated to the ground. The big talking spectator made the claim that was a fluke and likely couldn't be repeated. Well after two more cards were split, they just walked away. Sure wish I could still see those cards.

That was a great day.

Actually, I can see those cards. They are part of my trophy collection with my rifles. I just can't see them at the range.

 

[Phil Coffins]

Well, not a great shot but a fun one. Split a ball on a ax blade off hand at a match.
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[Larry (Omaha)]

I'll have to tell this story again.



Actually, I can se those cards. They are part of my trophy collection with my rifles. I just can't see them at the range.

Too bad ya don't have a camera shot of their jaws when they knew they were wrong.

 

[SamTex1949]

shot left to right off hand.

 

[Hatchet-Jack]

OK, since it's already teed up, I'll take the swing; You must be joking!

Haha yea!

 

[flntlokr]

The best I ever witnessed was at a Provincial Games match. One shooter scored a 49XXX offhand at 100yds. with a Fraser River Hawken .54. No spotting scopes allowed. One ragged hole with one ball slightly more than half into the 9-ring. I can't see well enough to even think of doing that!

 

[user 31296]

Hi. The best I've shot O/H at fifty metres is 96 out of a hundred 13 Shots ten counted

 

[Ironoxide]

I was developing a load for my. 54 cal patched round ball flintlock (Pedersoli Frontier) using a new round ball mold at 100m sitting at the bench. Resting the front of the rifle on a wooden rest. I shot five shots with one patching material. Those are the shots all over. Then I changed for my next patching material and shot 5 shot group that resulted in the below one ragged hole (about 0.7~0.8in measured center to center).

That is a sub 1MOA accuracy at 100 meters from a flintlock! I definitely was not expecting that.

Balls came from a Pedersoli mold (very similar to Lyman's). They had a very pronounced sprue that was located forward. Patching material was black denim 230g/sq.m soaked with 1 to 7 mix of ballistol and water (excess squeezed as hard as possible). Patches cut at the muzzle.

Sights are large buckhorn type barrel mounted. Factory crown. The barrel has long patch ball twist if I remember correctly 1:60 in. Shallow 8 land rifling. The load was 50 grains of Czech black powder (Vesuvit LC - like 2f and 3f mixed together).

 

[Stantheman86]

I have one of these, shot it in nra High power against mostly 03-a3 guys. The swiss didn’t have practice ammo it is all match quality

That good RUAG stuff

 

[Stantheman86]

I was developing a load for my. 54 cal patched round ball flintlock (Pedersoli Frontier) using a new round ball mold at 100m sitting at the bench. Resting the front of the rifle on a wooden rest. I shot five shots with one patching material. Those are the shots all over. Then I changed for my next patching material and shot 5 shot group that resulted in the below one ragged hole (about 0.7~0.8in measured center to center).
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That is a sub 1MOA accuracy at 100 meters from a flintlock! I definitely was not expecting that.

Balls came from a Pedersoli mold (very similar to Lyman's). They had a very pronounced sprue that was located forward. Patching material was black denim 230g/sq.m soaked with 1 to 7 mix of ballistol and water (excess squeezed as hard as possible). Patches cut at the muzzle.

Sights are large buckhorn type barrel mounted. Factory crown. The barrel has long patch ball twist if I remember correctly 1:60 in. Shallow 8 land rifling. The load was 50 grains of Czech black powder (Vesuvit LC - like 2f and 3f mixed together).

I need this from my round ball rifle

 

[sheriff john]

Dad and I were trying out his then-new Tingle .40 percussion pistol when this duck came gliding in towards us (small lake behind us). Trap & skeet ranges up the hill were going strong - quite a few people - too many for what happened next. Uh ......

"Get our stuff. We gotta go now, Johnny" Which is why I know that pistol is just darn lucky and one I'll never sell. Made a memory that afternoon. Then there was this owl...

Some years later two friends and I were squirrel hunting over in Callaway County. A squirrel was sitting on a limb when Jim K took a shot and missed. Squirrel moved to a different limb. Jim was flustered, reloaded but forgot to remove his ramrod. Forever etched in my memory is how far you can see a ramrod flying through the air and the bruise on his shoulder.

 

[TexasAndy]

I shot four eggs out of the air thrown at the same time by two different people. I hit one egg after the other with a 12 ga pump. I did it in front of my son's scout troop on a camp out. The same weekend I also shot an old headlight at about 100 feet with a potato canon. Broke the glass on both sides and the plastic housing was still in tack. I was demonstrating expedient siting techniques. I basically bore sited a paper towel tube taped to the top of the PVC tube. Might have been a little luck involved to , lol
Neil

So what you are saying is that you met their "eggspectations"?

 

[Capnball]

So what you are saying is that you met their "eggspectations"?

Ahhhhhh, yer Killin me.

 

[Zutt-man]

15 years ago (or so) my dad and I were at a shoot. They had a bison at 400 yds with a gusty 20 mph breeze. At the time I was shooting a .40 poor boy with a shortened barrel. Everyone was practically walking off to the next target when I pulled the trigger. No one thought some kid could touch a target at that distance with a small caliber. No one missed another shot of mine the rest of the day and I needed up winning the Juniors division (would’ve been top 5 in men’s) by a landslide

 

[Packrat]

Years ago, two very good shooters' fired at a Oxygen cylinder 't sound like that"200 yards. They both claimed a hit, I than fired and missed. My wife, 5'2" raised her new JP Gunstocks 59 caliber and fired, boy did that cylinder ring. .I looked at the other two shooters and said "Yours didn't sound like that"

 

[nkbj]

When we were young, eyes were good, we were in the woods all the time bringing critters home...
we did what was called head hunting. You made head shots to not blow up dinner.
I carried a .44 Kentucky and my brother carried a .54 Renegade. Many an awesome shot was made.