Your longest shot in 2016?

[cnelk]

What was your longest shot in 2016 that you harvested an animal?

Post up the weather conditions, yardage, weapon and species!

Mine was a 560yd shot with a 20mph crosswind with my .340 Weatherby, 225gr Hornady bullets on this Wyoming cow elk

 

[JPHuntingAUS]

Mine was waiting at the alter hoping a girl far too good for me would walk down the isle, turned out all right!

On the hunting scene I had a year of close shots really, 250 yards is the longest I think.

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[BigAntlerGetter]

Didn't even get to shoot at anything this year,
Client took a shot 97 yards, archery 60 degrees no wind bull elk. Open meadow. Bull went down within 70 yards. Would have stopped him from taking the shot but I was 40 yards away from him filming. And from my vantage the shot didn't look to be 97 yards, looked to be more like 60-65 but I had a completely different angle than the shooter, afterwards we ranged it was 97 yards. Client admitted afterwards how lucky he was, and would never take that shot again.
Next clients on a drop camp said they took a shot at 1050 with a wildcat round. Guy is a competition long range shooter, if he was with me I wouldn't have allowed the shot but can't stop em if I'm not there.


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[Broz]

Spring Black Bear hunt in Idaho. 1702 yards for a cold bore kill.
Calm with a 2 mph wind recorded also from fog moving out between us and the bear.
DE LRKM in 338 Terminator sending a 300 gr Berger OTM that I HBN coat and clean the tips with a .027" wire drill. Expanded perfectly with an impact velocity of 1650 fps.

Time of flight was 2.26 seconds
impact energy was 1750 ft lbs
SD and Coriolis were employed.

Shot was and is practiced on targets year round and had been shooting my mile target under almost the exact conditions the week before the hunt. I knew it was good at the break of the trigger and watched the bullet trace all the way.

Jeff

 

[Northernpiker]

Woodcock at 15 yards with 8 shot, calm and 55 degrees.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

350yd on an antelope was the farthest for the year. Should have had a 440yd off a nice stable shoot as well but missed oddly, turned out my turret was a revolution off so I shot 12MOA low (I know how it happened in retrospect and won't make that mistake again). 280AI shooting 145LRX. 300 on a mule doe, 240 on an antelope buck, 170 on a bull if I'm recalling correctly.

I would have figured my elk hunt would have presented some different situations but in reality got right in there.

 

[BigAntlerGetter]

Spring bear hunt in Idaho. 1702 yards for a cold bore kill.

Jeff

Holy cow damn near a mile, nice shooting!!! What caliber do you have?


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[Muledeerfanatic]

Shot a chizler at over 200 yds with my 17 hmr this spring

 

[Muledeerfanatic]

Oh and a rockchuck around 300 with the same gun!

 

[Beastmode]

756 yards
35*
300 win mag
215 grain berger

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[Broz]

Holy cow damn near a mile, nice shooting!!! What caliber do you have?


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Thank you, See my edit sorry I posted before I had it all in.

 

[Baby Huey]

Colorado mountain goat at 25yds, with no wind and around 50 degrees. PSE X-Force, 70lb. 506 grain arrow: Black Eagle Rampage shaft, with Firenock: A nock, stainless steel outsert, Aerovane III and Slick Trick 125gr broadhead.

 

[realunlucky]

DE LRKM in 338 Terminator sending a 300 gr Berger OTM that I HBN coat and clean the tips with a .027" wire drill. Expanded perfectly with an impact velocity of 1650 fps.

Time of flight was 2.26 seconds
impact energy was 1750 ft lbs

Impressive engery at distance


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[TurkeyBowMaster]

33 yard spot an stalk on a turkey facing straight away, through a tunnel of brush in high winds...spine shot him tight between the shoulder blades... ever think of the line in Lethal Weapon, "only 2 people in the world that could have made that shot?."


That's just a good line when you pull off a good shot like that.

 

[ReddingArcher]

Mine was 400 yards, 7mm08 with a 150 grain Barnes tsx. Probably 45* and no wind.

 

[hodgeman]

360 yds on a moose.

Nosler 48 in 300WSM with 180AB bullet. Beautiful day- partly cloudy and 50F, no wind.

 

[missjordan]

922 yards shooting a .338 Lapua Mag. 300 gr Berger bullets. Shot was taken across a canyon, conditions were sunny and 40 degrees but no wind. The round performed flawlessly and he was down in one shot. Girls can do it to!


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[maninthemaze]

Wyoming antelope at 482 yards with a 35mph wind blowing straight at me. 7wsm shooting 180 Bergers at 2900fps. He was bedded down quartering to me. Shot entered the neck/left shoulder and exited right hind quarter. He never stood up!!

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[Matt Cashell]

Spring Black Bear hunt in Idaho. 1702 yards for a cold bore kill.
Calm with a 2 mph wind recorded also from fog moving out between us and the bear.
DE LRKM in 338 Terminator sending a 300 gr Berger OTM that I HBN coat and clean the tips with a .027" wire drill. Expanded perfectly with an impact velocity of 1650 fps.

Time of flight was 2.26 seconds
impact energy was 1750 ft lbs
SD and Coriolis were employed.

Shot was and is practiced on targets year round and had been shooting my mile target under almost the exact conditions the week before the hunt. I knew it was good at the break of the trigger and watched the bullet trace all the way.

Jeff

Helluva shot, Jeff.

Nice bear, congrats!

 

[Bubblehide]

Just before 8am, California Mule deer buck bedded at 374 yards, at a steep angle across a bowl (with several fingers), below me. Lite wind, inconsistent but to 5 MPH. The buck was bedded down quartering away. One shot, entered through the right shoulder, and exited through the left neck, literally taking the heart out on it's way through the animal. That slope was so steep that I had to take him down the slope to de-bone him, and then hike him back up and out. I had a friends son with me, a newbie to hunting. I offered him the buck/shot, but not only was he not comfortable with the distance, but he couldn't even find the buck, despite detailed info and pointing... I gave the kid 1/2 the meat so that he gets a taste for the reward of an arduous hunt. He's already chomping at the bit for next season. Tika T-3 Lite, 300 WSM, 150 gr E-Tip @ 3200fps. The buck never knew we were there.