Chucks again

Donald Lehman · Jun 6, 2016

Didn't want to hijack the post below. I did have a witness to the luckiest shot I ever made on a woodchuck, though. My oldest son and I were chuck hunting. One took off running for it's hole and I simply pulled up, touched one off offhand, and drilled that sucker sprang through the shoulders. I paced 196 and my son paced 198. Son was suitably impressed with the old man. I kept cool like it was no big deal. Never admitted to him I was as amazed as he was, and it was the luckiest shot of my life. It isn't often you can impress your teenage son. I just let it lie and didn't say a word. (chuckle)

ditchwitch · Jun 6, 2016

LOL, Thats right. Dont say anything at all that way your still the hero. Good shot by the way lol

4520BW · Jun 6, 2016

we had one digging in our barn long time ago when I was a little feller and dad had a scoped .22 and shot across the truck bed and we heard a loud thud and I thought he hit the gate but later on loading wood I found a hole in the lip of the bed rail were he had shot it. Seems the scope was looking over bed but barrel was not. The truck was only 6 months old.

K Effective · Jun 6, 2016

Had a friend, 80-year-old WWII vet at the time, shot his hunting partner that way. First evening of camp up in the UP, they were out looking for a "camp deer", meat for the two weeks. They saw a doe, Herb laid his rifle across the roof of the car, clean shot, but the curve of the roof caught the bullet, which then drove shrapnel down into the leg of his pal, narrowly missing the artery. State Police at the hospital were not impressed, needless to say.

Mike M · Jun 6, 2016

I got 2 with one shot with my .243 Wasn't real far away 100 yds ? They both lined up as I was trying to figure out which one to go at first and then try for the second one.

Donald Lehman · Jun 6, 2016

Don't know how many chronographs I have seen destroyed like that. You generally chrono your shots at 10 feet from the muzzle. The line of the bullet is a couple of inches below your scopes line of sight at that distance. You HAVE to make sure you are aiming through the screens at the very top with the scope or the bullet will tear into the chronograph. Never done it myself, but have seen it done a quite a few times. It's always funnier when someone else does, by the way..................................

Donald Lehman · Jun 6, 2016

That is very rare. Makes for a good story, doesn't it?

old-9 · Jun 6, 2016

My best shot was at a "paced" 70 yards on a woodchuck with a scoped .357 Ruger single action.Used super vale(?) 110 grain holowpoints. Great gun but I traded it in for a .22/,22mag Ruger . Swaped the scope made a nice pistol. Still have the gun but the scope bit the dust. joe

2x4 · Jun 7, 2016

Luckiest shot I ever saw was by my 9 yr old son with a bow & target arrow. We were walking thru a field & saw a groundhog running for its hole. It ran into high weeds so you could see the grass moving but no 'hog. Son pulled up to shoot & I told'm not to bother as no chance it would hit. He didn't listen to me then any more than he does now & shot the arrow. I saw the arrow land in the weeds & saw the feathers above the weeds. Then the arrow did a slow roll to the left & disappeared. That target point hit the back of its neck & broke the spine! He's been making the durnest shots every since.

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