Your Longest Shot

[Beiruty]

500 yards, 4' steel, Top Gun Range with my 6.5 Creedmoor.

I have to do that, it is my next goal.

[threoh8]

I shot a Palma match once, with an M1 Garand. That's 800, 900, and 1000 yards with iron sights.
It was the only .30 caliber rifle I had at the time with sights that would go out that far.
I did not do well, but I did hit!

[jimlongley]

Longest shot I took was asking out my now wife.

You beat me to it. I thought the same thing when I read the subject line.

Longest shot (apart from that) was with my 1st generation M1 tank shooting sabot rounds at about 1.5 km. I hope this counts!

Well, asking out my first wife wasn't even a long shot, it was a total non-starter, she was way out of my league in looks, sophistication, and brains, and she was 9 years older than me, but she went out with me anyway and we had 24 glorious years together, 23 of them married.

I wasn't counting cannon, but since the subject has been broached: I fired a five shot group, with a 5"/38, from a moving destroyer, at a moving target, at a range of 5000 yards, and was scored with 6 hits (one of the shots skipped and splashed in the hit zone twice.) Of course it was a cooperative effort as all I did was aim in the vertical plane and pull the trigger, another sailor was responsible for the horizontal aim, and another set the sights, and others loaded the gun and such, and not to forget the mount captain who shouted sight settings and changes. Can't give you a group size or such, the target was a virtual area aft of the float and the possible scores were: Hit; 1/2 Hit; and no Hit.

Another time on an afternoon too hot to be trapped inside a gun mount without air conditioning, my "Trainer" (the guy that ran the gun horizontally) and
I conspired to actually hit the target sled and sink it, which was something you were not supposed to do, on the second shot. About 2500 yards.

[CowboyEngineer]

150 yards from a deer blind outside Camp Chaffee in Arkansas, many, many years ago. Given my eyesight today, I would have better luck hitting one with my car.

[Sidro]

Coyote at 647 yards with Winchester mod 70 in .225 caliber 55 gr sp bullet. Prairie dog at 451 yards same setup. I shot quite often several years ago, not so much now. Did drop 7 coyotes this last January over 500 yards with Winchester mod 70 .308 cal 168 gr hpbt match loads.

[MoJo]

1000 Yards, at the TSRA State matches at Camp Bullis. Winchester Model 70 .308 target rifle, Iron sights Sierra 180 grain matchking bullet GI brass AA 2230 powder RP large rifle primers. Came in #6 or #7 in the Marksman Class.

[StewNTexas]

Like 'Distinguished Rick' above, my longest shot was also USMC. Probably the same team he mentions, but a few years before as we were still shooting Garands. Shooting 1,000 yards at 18" bull. Yes, also hitting it.

[Gunner4640]

Asking Kelly Clarkson for a date ...

[G.A. Heath]

My furthest shot was a prairie dog at 420 something yards with a Savage 110 chambered in .22-250. I have a rifle (AR15) that a friend of mine was literally shooting the lids off of corona bottles at 436 yards. I have never been able to replicate this feat, I can easily kill the bottle however taking just the top is beyond me, but I have seen him do it with that rifle several times.

[mewalke]

400m at a 18" steel gong with an AR-15, 20" bbl and A1 style iron sights. It was a hoot to shoot irons at that distance (after walking it in over a few shots) and hearing a delayed...GONG! Actually with 5.56 at that distance it was more of quiet "ping"

[Beiruty]

400m at a 18" steel gong with an AR-15, 20" bbl and A1 style iron sights. It was a hoot to shoot irons at that distance (after walking it in over a few shots) and hearing a delayed...GONG! Actually with 5.56 at that distance it was more of quiet "ping"

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How in the world you can shoot at 400 yrds/m with Iron sight??!!!

First, the drop of the 223 even at 400 yrds is 27" (6 MOA) and the wind drift at moderate 5 MPH is 10" (2.5MOA)
Even if you get the drop perfect, the wind would make you miss at 400-500 yrds.
Did you have an "aiming" target and an "impact" target?
Did you have a spotter?

[mewalke]

400m at a 18" steel gong with an AR-15, 20" bbl and A1 style iron sights. It was a hoot to shoot irons at that distance (after walking it in over a few shots) and hearing a delayed...GONG! Actually with 5.56 at that distance it was more of quiet "ping"

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How in the world you can shoot at 400 yrds/m with Iron sight??!!!

First, the drop of the 223 even at 400 yrds is 27" (6 MOA) and the wind drift at moderate 5 MPH is 10" (2.5MOA)
Even if you get the drop perfect, the wind would make you miss at 400-500 yrds.
Did you have an "aiming" target and an "impact" target?
Did you have a spotter?

Yeah, the hold over was ridiculous, and yes I had a spotter. It was at a range in the NM desert and was snuggled in to a small canyon like area and the wind was usually negligible. 18" steel plate at that distance was tiny and very hard to see.

What made things easier is we had started at the 50m gong and worked our way through the 100, 200, and 300m gongs before trying the 400m. Allowed me to get used to the bullet trajectory over the various distanced before getting to the 400m. I think I hit 4/10 at that distance. Took 4 shots to walk to the target and hit 4 of the remaining 6.

We tried the 600m next, but I couldn't see the gong at all (that one was a 36") so I had no chance of hitting it.

edit: I check with my good friend who is still a member at that range and he corrected my memory (this was a range trip in 2003). He said the 400m gong is 36" not 18" like the 300m and below. He did confirm that both of us were able to hit the 400m that day, but said he hasn't been able to replicate that since.

This was my first time shooting any gun since I was a teenager going through hunter education, and the experience is what got me excited about shooting and made me decide to buy my own AR a year later.

[The Annoyed Man]

My son just went shooting on a private 800 yard range yesterday with his boss. He was 20/20 on a 12" round steel plate at the 800 yard line with an accurized AR10 with a 10X scope, shooting the rifle owner's handloads of unknown specs. That was his longest shot to date.

[Iunnrais]

Shot and hit? ~175yds with a .45-70 on a running hog.

Shot and should have hit *mutters about the evils of 2nd plane scope and large zoom variances* 400yds. Memorizing drop charts for 10x means diddly when the scope is set to 25x. Shot fall is t even within view at that range/mag on my .45-70. Right at 5 mils low x .3 mil right at 10x though ;) give or take a wind variance. Silly rainbow trajectory. Can't wait to finish my 6.8spc AR and take it instead.

[The Annoyed Man]

Shot and hit? ~175yds with a .45-70 on a running hog.

Shot and should have hit *mutters about the evils of 2nd plane scope and large zoom variances* 400yds. Memorizing drop charts for 10x means diddly when the scope is set to 25x. Shot fall is t even within view at that range/mag on my .45-70. Right at 5 mils low x .3 mil right at 10x though ;) give or take a wind variance. Silly rainbow trajectory. Can't wait to finish my 6.8spc AR and take it instead.

My son's boss was shooting an AR10 in .260 Remington at 800. His dope chart goes out to 1,300 yards. The AR10 my son was shooting was in .308.