Re: Most impressive shot?
I have two of which I'm quite fond.
When I was 16 I had a new Marlin 336C.
My family gathered every Sunday at my grandparents place in the country.
The typical Sunday after dinner routine was for the men to gather on the front porch and tell lies while watching the kids.
Across the dirt road from the house lied a 15 acre hay field.
A small flock of crows had settled on the farthest hilltop in the field.
I declared that I was going to shoot one of them from the old oak stump in the front yard. Estimated distance was 300 yards.
After my Uncles were done laughing and yammering about how foolish I was, I settled the Marlin across the old snarled stump, putting about 3 feet of air between the crosshairs of the Bushnell 3-9 and my chosen target. I'd been reading the bullet drop charts from Remington and I had a pretty good idea what to hold over.
The 30-30 cracked and in what seemed like a second, one of the crows exploded while the others took hasty flight.
Looking back at the porch crowd, I can remember that it was the only time I'd ever seen all of them silent at once.
We didn't have Google Earth back then, but we do now.
My second favorite is the old gobbler that I flushed out of a creek bottom in a cutover I was walking for deer. He flew to the top of the next hill and landed in a big oak that was left for seed.
I figured the tree to be a tick over 200 yards, and I was shooting an 870 with slugs.
It took three tries, but the third round connected and left his head dangling by a thread of skin about the thickness of a shoelace.
