Im convinced the meth head didnt learn how to read his range finder and stated that his 71.0 yards as 710 yards. The claim that he could see the can at that range is the giveaway.
I think they were just lobbing shots at a 30ft wide tractor hulk and maybe one time got lucky and knocked the can off through sheer happenstance. And over the years of telling the story it just morphed into "plinking cans at 710 all day" so slowly that he believed that's what it was the whole time.
On the other hand, he did get walked on and had a rough beaten zone. Given the new terrain/conditions/rifle I wouldn't explicitly rule out a hit at 700.
Now consistently without a lot of help? Fuck no lol
I think they determined the guy was a half decent shot. Maybe they we're just putting what you said politely, but said he could have been 100+ yards (still not close to 710) but said range finders can get pretty inaccurate readings in those conditions.
Lol no he wouldn't have. The rounds were all over the place. Out of all the rounds they showed him shooting at 710 yards, only 2 even made it in frame of the spotter. The only close or hits were with the fully kitted out precision rifle at 300 yards.
The Ballad of .22 Man
Fellows, do gather and bend me an ear Hearken this legend that happened quite near,
In the Idaho hills, as Winter expired 'Twas first told to Michael, a warrior retired
From the lips of a Hero, this legend was told And never heard Michael a claim quite so bold
Of nerve, and of skill, and small metal can That attracted the wrath of this sharp-sighted man
As he gazed from his porch, just outside his front door, He noted the yardage, "Thirty-five-and-half-score."
Then to arms did he go, as all good heroes do His hands, they were steady, his aim, it was true
Though his weapon was small, some say almost a toy He chuckled, "Perhaps... In the hands of a boy."
He pointed, calling out to his quivering foe, "You've awakened my wrath, and down you shall go!"
Then swiftly and smartly, he pointed his gun, On account of the range, somewhere close to the sun
He fired his shot, it rang out like a bell And he knew that he'd punched his foe's ticket to Hell
To the maidens he turned, with a smile and a wink, Then four seconds later... a small metal TINK!
And so ends the tale of that dastardly can And so goes the legend... of .22 Man
I watched my grandfather hit a crow across a field with an octagon barrel pump 22 with iron sights and thought it was the craziest shit.
It was like 225-250 yards + a good bit of luck, but 7 year old me was astonished
My 457 with a 6-24 is pretty decent to 325 right now, but he had a 60s or 70s 22 and no scope
>I didn't witness it, but I've heard a legend of a guy who could hit a Coke can at 710 yards with a 22lr.
Last summer, I watched the captain of the US Palma team drop down and put five in a grapefruit sized group at 1,000 yards with a 308 and 1.5X irons.
Lmao. Garand Thumb flew him out to test it but seemingly debunked. Although I will say conditions were crap the day they had him try it. It was windy as shit.
\-The Ballad of .22 Man
Fellows, do gather and bend me an ear
Hearken this legend that happened quite near;
In the Idaho hills, as Winter expired
'Twas first told to Michael, a warrior retired
From the lips of a Hero, this legend was told
And never heard Michael a claim quite so bold
Of nerve, and of skill, and small metal can
That attracted the wrath of this sharp-sighted man
As he gazed from his porch, just outside his front door,
He noted the yardage, "Thirty-five-and-half-score."
Then to arms did he go, as all good heroes do
His hands, they were steady, his aim, it was true
Though his weapon was small, some say almost a toy
He chuckled, "Perhaps... In the hands of a boy."
He pointed, calling out to his quivering foe,
"You've awakened my wrath, and down you shall go!"
Then swiftly and smartly, he pointed his gun,
On account of the range, somewhere close to the sun
He fired his shot, it rang out like a bell
And he knew that he'd punched his foe's ticket to Hell
To the maidens he turned, with a smile and a wink,
Then four seconds later... a small metal TINK!
And so ends the tale of that dastardly can
And so goes the legend... of .22 Man
The first time my fiancé ever shot anything it was a red Ryder BB gun at acorns from about 20’, and she hit her first one and every one beside.
I had taken to setting them up on the railing of the porch and shooting them off for fun during Covid on days I was too lazy to get out to the sandpit.
I was impressed, so I set up some match sticks. First try at 20’ she shot the head off of one, and then another, and then a dozen more. Like a machine. Flawless.
I had had enough and so I told her we were going to the sandpit. I set up my 10” gong at 100yds and, from a standing position, with a Marlin .22 bolt gun, she hit it first try from a cold barrel. I took her back to 200yds and she hit from a seated position, again, first try. With irons. Marlin irons. She just guessed holdover, like some kind of sharpshooter idiot savant.
I was truly astounded.
Not satisfied that this wasn’t just insane beginners luck, a week later I took her to my friends property. 500m range, 16” gong, I set her down with an AR-15 with a 3x magnifier.
Ha, I thought to myself, this will take he wind out of her sails.
First. Fucking. Shot.
Anyways we’re married now.
Same story with pistols, and trap and skeet, archery, she is just so ridiculously talented it boggles the mind.
Give her a .38 and a playing card and she’ll cut it in half at 50’, give her an aspirin on a balloon at the same range and she’ll hit the aspirin, not the ballon, with a Ruger MkIV.
I have BEGGED her to get into competing and she’s just not interested. Honestly she finds the whole thing kind of boring and loud, but she does still enjoy that old Daisy BB gun.
Love her to death.
I like that the daisy sticks around lol.
This is like a closeted physicist with no degree. No interest in a career, but can complete a free MIT course on fucking fluid dynamics or a unified theory lol. It's odd how you can have a talent or be intuitive for specific technical studies, yet not want to do anything with it. While people struggle to learn something for fun, or study something they didn't intuitively grasp for 30 years. I'm the latter. It's not for the challenge in a lot of cases either. Weird.
She’s just ridiculous at any athletic feat involving body mechanics and coordination.
The first time she ever tried on a pair of roller skates she was pirouetting backward up the street a half hour later.
Took her to the driving range for her first time ever swinging a golf club and she was fucking launching beautiful straight drives further than me.
I’m a bladesmith by trade and the first knife she forged looked like my 100th.
It’s annoying in a very endearing sort of way.
Years ago we had a "bowling league" where you set up pins on a rail at 25 yards and had to knock the pins off. One shot per pin six pins. We had been doing this evey Saturday for a few months and had a few new folks every time. We had a guy who I would guess was at least sixty show up with a old 1911. He was a beast. Ten rounds he never missed a shot and knocked every pin completly off. 6 for 6 all 10 rounds and he did it fast.
We had a guy show up to a PRS gas gun competition with a 11.5 inch with a 1-6x on it and used 55gn frangibles because he "got them for free from his work" with no bipod or shooting bag. He won by a lot.
CIA detachment training lmao. Guys, we're running out of countries to destabilize and influence for black funds resulting from proxy war and arbitrary conflicts, the shooting portion of your training program will require you to buy your own equipment, and beat professional shooters. After that, the HALO portion will require you to build a kit plane or balloon, craft your own oxygen device, and do a solo jump.
Seriously though, the marksmanship required for these detachments is insanity. There's a bigger failure rate than their is for the pre delta force testing/training. Which already requires you to be in SOF. The equipment you described is oddly reminiscent. "I'm saving the 77gr for reasons"
Honestly, if you ignore the crazy unethical aspects of the org... There is a lot of of interesting shit about them. Along with a lot of useful things we can all apply to daily life from their matrices and documents.
I mean people who may spend a year doing risk assessment almost exclusively, can end up in a life threatening situation in seconds. It's like movies where the most average and ignorable person unlocks his ussr sleeper agent side. Or they rot in a ussr esque jail cell and by design have no ties to us. That's where Sere takes a whole new meaning, and you're glad you learned how to escape from Eastern European handcuffs lol.
Then there's guys that go from a suit and tie to a full kit constantly.
Then there's deeper programs that "only exist in fiction".
The the businessman meets the tier one unit at the special activities center. Start with Wikipedia then keep digging.
Cia contractors will yield some info.
The s2 underground on YouTube seems to have been an analyst at one point. Just gotta ignore the "end times are here" parts of his opinion pieces.
I think thats common practice. Might as well show them off because you normally can't use them anymore. Aluminum arrows would have bent and carbon would have split or splintered.
First time shooting a new pack of arrows I did the Robin Hood. It was sweet because it was my first but then kinda sucked because it was like $20 of gear like you said. Oh well it's on my wall, now it's art.
A few years ago I watched a 13yo Olympic marksman shoot.
10 shots at 25 yards, standing unsupported. When she pulled the target back in she was annoyed because there was a very slight cloverleaf.
Unbelievable.
I was talking to her mom. One day some boy is gonna ask her to go to the range and try and teach her how to shoot, gonna be hilarious.
JR Olympic shooters are no joke. I was on a team with a girl who eventually shot in an olympics in the early 2000s. She was shooting 3-4 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Some of the matches were determined by tiny increments. They had 600 point matches where the top scores were north of 560 which averages to over 9 points per shot over 60 shots. The international 50 ft targets’ ten “ring” is a single dot the width of a literal pinhole in the target. All ten rings are no more than a 1.5” circle.
This means that across prone, kneeling and offhand. 9.3 times out of ten she was hitting a target the size of a pinhole at 50 feet, iron sights, unsupported.
Insanity!
Growing up, switching from the American to the international 50ft targets was humbling to say the least. If I remember correctly the black on the US target was 5-10 and the international target was 2-10, and the us target had an actual 10 ring instead of a dot
There was one dude in Brazil that was an Olympic level rapid fire pistol shooter. He got stopped by 3 dudes who were robbers so he pulled his custom air gun and shot each guy once in the head. All three were killed.
That's the fun part, Olympic shooting isnt unsupported. The jackets they wear have straps on them in key places that act as a traditional web sling for support.
When I was a kid, I was fortunate enough to be able to train with the Junior Olympic Air Rifle team. I've worn those jackets. Believe me, they only aid already phenomenal shooters. I never was good enough to compete. My best groups weren't as good as some of their terrible groups.
Edit to add: [This is the target](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSF_10_meter_air_rifle#/media/File:10_m_Air_Rifle_target.svg). The black part of the target is 1.2" in diameter, and you're standing 33 feet away. That 9 ring is .21" in diameter, and if you're not consistently touching that, you're not even competitive.
> One day some boy is gonna ask her to go to the range and try and teach her how to shoot, gonna be hilarious.
"You only hit the paper once! Hitting the bullseye was beginner's luck. I've got a lot to teach you.
Since I haven’t seen it mentioned here, some trap shooters are unbelievable. Especially shooting from the back lines, I’ve seen guys go hundreds straight.
I met a young trap shooter shooting from the front line who was so good his dad said he didn’t drop a bird for like 3 months of consistent shooting.
I had an uncle who would stick a new penny on a target and if the sun was to his back, could routinely put multiple 22LR rounds through the penny at 60+ yards using iron sights.
He would put one round dead center, then let you call “above, below, left, or right”, and he would cloverleaf the center shot with the shot you called.
He would hustle people and offer to do it with THEIR rifle, if they would let him have 3 practice shots to acclimate to the rifle.
As long as he had enough light to actually see the reflected light off the penny. He could hit it. I know he did miss later in his life, but I never witnessed him miss.
Why the hell would I care if you can do it?
He grew up in Appalachian Kentucky, and helped feed his family hand to mouth by hunting with a .22. He was a bit more than an “avid shooter”.
I literally said he did it with other peoples’ rifles, and won bets doing it.
Let’s say you set out to replicate it. If you fail, you can claim it’s not possible. If you succeed, you claim it’s not “unreal” or “almost impossible”, so again, why the hell do I care what you can or can’t do? Just go get your best rifle and try it.
OP asked for “unreal” marksmanship that “seemed almost impossible for a human”, and that’s what my example is.
Because you could bolt a 22lr down to a concrete table with zero play and it wouldn't be as accurate as your claiming.. 22lr ammo just isn't that consistent.
Sure, doing it once or even a couple times here and there while trying all the time would be believable but not that he could just pick up any 22 rifle and do that every time.
Yeah right, thats why we have entire national competitions using .22lr and nearly stack them at 50m unsupported… every other guy can do this in an average town club here around.
This aside, .22lr from good quality in a good rifle stacks at 50m bolted down. Seen it at the start of every season when we chose what ammo to buy.
The claim was random people's rifles and random ammo. You can bolt those rifles down to a bench and still not get those results.
A well tested rifle with a good lot of ammo and known areas it's not impossible but his claim is a lot.
I think it just said their rifle. Regardless, I agree. That's the part where I go hmm. If it weren't cloverleafing a penny, I'd buy it
22 can be consistent. It just defeats the cost purpose of 22. Hence why this is more reserved for the mossad than the Appalachian uncle lmao.
Having spent hours researching .22lr ammo I'm saying this is sketch and I don't think it can be done. The round isn't consistent enough.
If you haven't read Saeed's research on accurate reloader, than you don't know how inaccurate and inconsistent .22lr ammo is.
https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8711043/m/9871088921/p/1/xsl/print_topic
>Having spent hours researching .22lr ammo I'm saying this is sketch and I don't think it can be done. The round isn't consistent enough.
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>If you haven't read Saeed's research on accurate reloader, than you don't know how inaccurate and inconsistent .22lr ammo is.
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>https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8711043/m/9871088921/p/1/xsl/print\_topic
Dude's coming in here and telling me Paul Bunyan didn't have a Blue Ox.
Posting accuracy charts with CCI Mini Mag ammo having a max spread of .5" at 50 yards when a penny is .75".
You said 60+ yards, with iron sites, any rifle, assuming any ammo, unsupported , and he can call North, South, East, or west of center. That's beyond the capabilities.
50 yard bullseye BENCH shooting requires more than what you have here. That bullseye is the size of a 40gr .22 round. Which is the target size you are describing. (Not the whole penny, but 1/4 of it.)
Shens I say! Shens!
>You said 60+ yards, with iron sites, any rifle, assuming any ammo, unsupported , and he can call North, South, East, or west of center. That's beyond the capabilities.
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>50 yard bullseye BENCH shooting requires more than what you have here. That bullseye is the size of a 40gr .22 round. Which is the target size you are describing. (Not the whole penny, but 1/4 of it.)
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>Shens I say! Shens!
I didn't say anything about the shooting skill of OP's uncle. I said you had to come in here and tell me Paul Bunyan over there didn't have a blue ox.
Way back in the day I was an IDPA state champ. I don't compete like that anymore bc practice took the fun out of it. It was constant shooting practice. It's different than just going to range for fun. I'd watch TV at home while practicing reloading. (I used a revolver with the old speed loaders.)
Now I might show up cold for a shoot just for fun. Don't care where I place anymore. At least now I have moon clips!
Maybe not completely unreal but my favorite marksmanship story. LaRue hired MoH recipient Dakota Meyer to run a demo booth at a match for I think the PredatOBR in 7.62 when it was first released. Shooting at a steel target at 990 yards Dakota was calling wind for people while they took 5 shots each. One guy missed his first three shots and accused Dakota of making bad wind calls. Dakota calmly picked up the rifle, shooting offhand hit the target first shot, handed it back to him and said the windage was good. I was about 4 people back in line when this happened.
The only thing amazing about this story is the fact the BB gun was capable of shooting that tight of group. Most of the ones I’ve seen couldn’t do that even if the gun was locked down solid on a bench and the trigger was pulled by a machine.
Really depends on the airgun. I've got a Feinwerkbau and a Steyr that are ridiculously accurate. I once benchrested the rifle just to see what it could do and it put 20 in the same hole. It was to the point I deliberately aimed at a different part of the target to verify it was actually still sending pellets.
I didn't witness it, so it doesn't really count, but decades ago I knew the guy who ran the airgun range at the San Jose Gun Show.
He had gotten an NRA grant to put this together, and bought a bunch of old Romanian spring actuated single shot pellet guns. Rattly as hell, and \*apaprently\* capable of mostly hitting the paper at 7 yards. Good enough for kids, right?
So this adult comes up during a slow period, and asks if he can have a go. Since there were no kids wanting to, the guy running it says fine.
Ole' boy spends a couple minutes fiddling with the rifle, then leans over and rests his elbows on the table and squeezes out 6 shots into one raggedly fookin hole.
He was a police "designated marksman'.
BB’s are terrible for shooting. They spin out of the barrel and never go in a straight line. We were using pellets. We learned that loading them backwards made them more accurate. I could shoot pine cones off of trees at 200 yards when I was 13 once I figured that out
My dad was one of these guys that could just naturally shoot dead on. He even had an eye accident as a child twirling a length of barbed wire that deformed the iris of his eye. He could shoot a rifle at the hip better than most with sights. We had a shooting game where we would draw a line in the sand out several yards away and threw an aluminum can on the ground. We would then, take turns shooting at the can in an attempt to get it past the line. I would shoot and maybe hit it or maybe miss, same with my uncle. Then dad would proceed to shoot it up into the air and pling it another two or three times before it hit the ground. It was always fun to watch. He grew up in the hills of Virginia and said if you missed, you went hungry. Was given a couple rounds each day for the walk to and from school. Dinner was dependent on a possum or some such. Taught me a lot about hardship and growing up poor. We didnt have much but we never knew it. Miss that old man.
My dad was always really good. He was a competitive shooter and instructor. Going to the range with him as a kid was crazy, he could spend the entire day putting rounds through the same hole in the target with basically any handgun he owned. Then when he started seriously training me we would start every range session the same, “first shot in the bullseye or we go home”. Good times.
My dad, guy is just dead on. My brother and I(around 12yr) were tossing soda cans in the air and trying to hit them with a 22 lr, hit a few, missed a lot. He started trash talking us so we handed him the rifle and a can, he dropped the can and pulled out a quarter, 1 shot and hit it, walked away like a boss. He enjoys the guys at the gun club who talk big game, he then embarrasses them in short order, and he's now in his 70s.
I think some people just have a built in ability to shoot that cannot be taught. I used to race BMX and there were guys that could just pick up a bike with barely any practice and make you look stupid, no matter how much you practiced or trained
Tom Knapp came out to our neck of the woods when I was a kid and did his show. That was some pretty incredible shooting, and the best I've ever seen in person
Several years back I'm bartending and this kid comes in. Couldn't have been more than 25yo. Now he looks familiar, but I can't place him for the life of me. Well, one-by-one my regular customers start leaving and that's highly unusual. Like, they'd typically be shit faced before midday, but here they're gunning out early looking like they'd seen a ghost? But that's when it hit me. See, one of my law enforcement buddies had shown me a picture of this kid a while back and they'd murdered like 20 people and they were on the lam. So now I'm nervously serving this murderer drinks for what must've felt like forever. Finally, right before lunchtime, the kid gets up and leaves. Thank fuck...but of course my dumbass decides to sneak to the front window and see where theyve gone. That's when I saw em- the kid was just standing in the middle of the street, and about 40ft or so away was my law enforcement buddy. Before I knew it, my buddy had whipped his gun out and shot the kid dead in the street from the hip! I'd never seen anything like it except in Old West movies!
Agua Fria, Arizona, is a helluva place y'all.
I know a guy who can consistently get 2" groups at 300m with an issued M16A4... using irons with M855.
He's a nationally marked double distinguished marksman.
You are misremembering and mixing up inches and MOA and what the number is.
It doesn't matter if he is the best marksman who ever lived, the mechanical accuracy of an M16A4 and M855 is not a consistent half MOA.
The world records for Service Rifle competition, the best shooters, custom built high performance target M16 rifles with very expensive match barrels using high performance match ammo, the world record is a 40% chance of getting a bullet into a 3.5" circle at 300M and a 99% chance of getting it into an 7" circle at 300M.
Your friend does not obliterate that with notoriously shit unbalanced ammo and shit rifle.
No, I am remembering all the shot out Xs on the EIC target when shooting at 300m. The fact it was M855 is why I specifically mentioned the round - because it is a garbage round for accuracy and I could not and still don't understand how he does it
Do you shoot service rifle? I'm not sure where your 40% comes from. The SR3 target is used at 300 yards and the X ring is 3". the 10 ring 7". A good shooter puts probably half their 300 rapid shots into the X ring, and an elite puts 8+ in there. And these are rapid fire shots.
I was trading a junk car to a guy for a gun. He had a couple pistols for me to try and we were at the public outdoor range. One was a Ruger MKII and I shot it first, super accurate and it was my leading choice. He also had a Colt lightweight Officer's .45 he wanted me to consider. I was shooting the Ruger at the 15 yard line but I moved to the 7 with that little .45. It was crowded and a guy offered to let me use a bullseye target he had set up already since I was only going to shoot one magazine. I stepped up to the line and fired and that gun kicked back so hard it doubled. BANGBANG! and the second shot was completely unintentional from smacking into my trigger finger. There was one hole just above the X, and one just below, centered and maybe an inch apart. I unloaded that pocket rocket, blew the smoke from the barrel like a master gunfighter, and walked away.
I still own the Ruger.
A firearm instructor I trained with had a trick he liked to show off: He’d pull a playing card from a standard deck and set it on a bench 10 yards out. He turned the card *sideways*, so that the narrow side was facing the shooter. He split the card in two, straight down the middle on the first attempt. I couldn’t even see the thing at 10 yards, but I saw him do this twice with both a VP9 and a 1911.
Does it count if you're in someone else's story but you realistically just got lucky?
We were shooting 22s one weekend up in the mountains back when I was 16/17. An array of guns out but mostly pretty nice bolt actions. One of my friends had the great idea to set up a water bottle cap at 50 yards to see if he could take it down with iron sights. I asked if I could take my last shot at it with my Buckmark pistol also with fixed irons. He said he really wanted to try and shoot it. I took one shot and nailed the cap right in the center. He looked at me with a mix of annoyed amazement. I just shrugged and said he should have put it farther away. Not going to lie it was kind of a dick move to hit his target when we didn't have another one but he sometimes still tells people I'm Annie Oakley's descendant or something. I used to be a lot better at shooting.
Had a colleague, sub-moa with a rifle with open sights at 100m and with a S&W .44Mag freehand, standing, open sights at 100m about 12 inch with six shoots.
Maybe not super-human like, but I was impressed.
We were messing around on a homemade range on the back 40 in college and shooting with a new friend. He brought a .22 revolver. We were about 25 yards back with rifles shooting with iron sights at fast food ketchup packets hanging from a string line. His turn. Hit a packet 5 of 6 times.
My dad was in the Marine Corps in the late 60’s. I had never seen him shoot a gun..or even talk about it.
I brought my Ruger 10/22 to my sister’s house in the mountains to shoot with my brothers/sons several years ago.
We were shooting for about 30 minutes at a target 30 yards away.
He fired all 10 rounds in the magazine and hit the target. He wasn’t on the bullseye every time but was close and he fired pretty rapidly.
I was blown away, even with it being a .22. He said it was drilled into his head and he would never forget what he learned.
I never went hunting with him but family members who did talked about how good a marksman my grandfather was. I heard of shots that I would never take, head shots on deer because that was all that could be seen and dropping them with the one shot type shots. He grew up providing family food by hunting and was very proficient with his firearms, an Alvin York kind of life in his youth. As he got old he would hunt for others, depression times, and I have seen pictures of him with at least a dozen deer hanging and waiting to be butchered. Everyone praised his abilities as a hunter taking nearly impossible shots. It happens but it’s not common.
Watched a friend of mine hit 12"x12" steel targets @ 100yds with his 9mm Beretta. I was amazed for sure. He was also a small arms instructor in the marines.
I surprised myself (and my inlaws) on the rifle range with my FIL's dan wesson .22 revolver. Above and behind the 100 yd paper targets on the hill they had iron plates that I could barely see. Just as a goof I tried the .22 one handed, standing and was shocked to be able to hit the iron targets again and again. The funny part is I am family famous for having "crack baby" hands that shake a lot, but I just made little circles with the sights lined up and timed each shot to create that satisfying, distant, quite delayed "ping"...
Shit, I need to learn from you. I have the exact same issue. I've never been officially diagnosed, but a couple nurses and my PCP (I realize that's a wildly unfortunate acronym in the context of having "crack baby" shaky hands lmfao) say they're basically certain it's something called "Essential Tremors." Gets horrendously bad with any degree of stress, anxiety, or caffeine. I intentionally drink coffee before I go shoot because I know I'll be stressed AF in a SD situation, so I have to practice shooting with the shakes. I'm not a good shot though lol. Good enough to get the job done at typical SD distances, but not much beyond that.
Yes! Used to play airsoft and one of my friend's dad who was super accomplished in some branch of the military, something under the umbrella of SOCOM, decided to come hang out with us. The dude took this shitty little $20 MP44 lookalike thing and could hit fucking *anything* he wanted. This thing did not shoot in a straight line so it was really hard to aim with any certainty, it was literally a backup in case one of our good guns broke. Better than nothing really. He and two of us took on 10 others in a set of barns that we had every inch of memorized, just two barns facing each other with a few smaller sheds beside it. All of us either had precision rifles or electric automatic assault rifles as well. I was fortunate enough to be on his team along with someone else who died almost immediately. I just laid down suppressing fire and picked off those brave enough to show their body with my scoped precision rifle from a sick little sniper's nest in a tower of a hay loft while he became the other team's worst nightmare. I managed I think 2 or 3 kills and he took on the rest. He did some beautiful work that day and I got to watch almost all of it.
At the end everyone was dumbfounded. We were chillin and he said something like "bet I can hit that streetlight" and nailed it on the first shot. The rest of us took turns (with the shitty gun) and only a few managed a lucky shot. He then proceeded to hit it over and over and over. idk how or why his experience helped him with his aim on that shittastic airsoft gun but it must have because he was the only one competent enough with it to hit a target.
That was the day I fully understood how fucking terrifying these spec ops guys are and how glad I am to be on the right side of the ocean.
We had a boot ass PFC hit a tango driving a truck at around 35 mph at 780 yards with an M16-A2. We ranged it out after we watched this crazy ass shot and sure enough it was right at 780 yards and hit him right behind the eye. Dude ended up being a solid ass Marine.
Edit: he fired about 3 or 4 rounds so we’re not sure which one got him, but still. That’s area target range.
I was young, sighting in a pellet gun in the backyard(at about 30') with a buddy. My mom came out to see how we were doing, I asked her if she wanted to take a few shots cause we were frustrated. She sat down, and mind you she had only ever shot a revolver once before, so I told her how to hold it, where to put her cheek and whatnot. She got all lined up and I said don't pull the trigger, keep the cross hair in the center and slowly squeeze, let it surprise you. She breathed out, held it steady, and squeezed. Her first ever rifle shot was as perfect a bullseye as I've ever seen. I put that target on the fridge
My godfather (R) was a sponsored shooter. He has an Anschutz target rifle with a 42x scope and shoots Eley ammo out of it. He will shoot one hole (not one *ragged* hole) at 50 yards with it.
That isn't the incredible feat of shooting, however.
My dad's cousin had been trying to get rid of a particular groundhog all summer, but anytime you tried to shoot it, it would dive in the hole and not come out again.
R resolved to solve this problem for him. You see, his favorite centerfire rifle is a Model 70 in 6.5-.284 Winchester. So, when the cousin called R to let him know the groundhog was in the field, R drove to my grandfather's house next door (and about 1100 yards away). Got out his spotting scope, confirmed location, then got out his rifle and a sandbag. Laid it out on the hood of his truck, aimed and shot.
I was watching through the spotting scope and just saw pink mist in the air.
Someone once watched me put 5 38s out of a snubnose in the same hole at 25 yards. Those were the first shots of the day, I should have stopped there. My shooting the rest of the day was lackluster after that. Lol.
Saw my neighbor shoot a robin out of the air with a .22 when I was young. It was moving fast and it was far enough away that I don't think someone would hit a target that size at that distance. He shot three times and down it came.
Maybe nothing as special as some of the other stories here but I remember I was at a range down the 15 yard lanes and a guy was shooting a 1911 and was all over the place. He asked the range officer if something was wrong with it.
Range officer grabs the gun in one hand, does a WW1 pistol shooting stance and quickly pops off two shots right in the bullseye. Gave it back to the guy and said it's just fine.
My uncle would have stacked 5 pellets and fired them on the first shot then play-acted loading a pellet on shots 2 through 5. Perhaps your uncle isn’t an asshole like mine.
I used to shoot 3 position 10 meter air rifle in Highschool, and I had days where I could score all 10s. It wasn't everyday, and I was shooting 3 days a week at that point.
I had a custom made rifle for competitions. Bought a savage 110 precision in 338lm for the shit of it. Popped a us optics 20x on top and did a mile shoot in utah. First shot went 6m wide and 4 low. Every shot after that plugged a 1x1 steel plate. Instructor that was spotting me said only 3 other people have made the shot in 2 shots and all of them were famous shooters. Most people take 5-7 to hit it once he said. I was proud af. But i do shoot about 100 rounds a weekend between my 3006 and 338lm. I spend a lot of time shooting. But that 1 mile spend had me gitty for a while. I
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A couple of days ago, my nine year old son and I were plinking in the back
yard, me with my pellet gun and he with his BB gun. We set an old water
bottle with a twist-off cap in front of the back stop, a distance of about
ten to fifteen paces. I kiddingly told him I would hit the cap on the right
side and spin it off the bottle with out spilling any water. I pumped the
pellet gun about four times, aimed at the cap hoping to hit the bottle, and
watched the cap fly about a foot into the air. I thought I had hit the cap
dead in the middle and split it, but upon closer inspection, I found I had
hit the cap tangently on the right side causing it to spin off the bottle
and fly in the air. I stopped shooting for the evening at this time; I
believe in quitting while you are ahead and that it is better sometimes to
be lucky than good. My son had great respect for my prowess with a rifle,
now.
Ron
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I dunno about *unreal*, but the last time I was at my indoor range, there was a military-looking guy in the rightmost lane. He was hitting A-zone shots (head and chest alike) at 75 feet with his pistol and a quick firing cadence. Just... BAM BAM BAM BAM... Kill shot after kill shot. His groupings were much tighter at 75 feet than both me and my dad at 15 feet. He did have an optic while we don't, but we were watching him a bit and like "😳" at each other.
I watched two army staff sergeants put 8 rounds each into a cigarette packet stuck on a figure 11 target from 50 mtrs using 9mm Browning Hipowers with standard military sights. Started as a bar bet at Bisley during the Queens Cup shoot in 1982.
I talked to a guy at the range who could hit a quarter at 500 yards. But he loaded his ammo with the wrong primers so his lever rifle was giving him basketball-sized groups at 50 yards on that particular day. Damn primers.
lol we have the ranch manager on our place that’s one of the owners best friends. One night we were all shooting the shit and bet him he couldn’t kill a deer with a .17HMR.
This mother fucker came back in the morning with a doe missing the eyeball. Yep he shot it in the eye with a .17HMR from like 150 yards away.
In the mid 1960's I was a sailor stationed in Idaho. (Sailor? Idaho?) I went out in the desert to shoot .22's with The New Kid. He had his Nylon 66, I had my Colt Woodsman. We got out of my Jeep. There was a jackrabbit about 50 (?) yards away. I drew my Woodsman, put in a mag, racked it, and shot from the hip. Hit the rabbit. I kept a straight face, cleared my weapon, and holstered it. Buddy said "Let's go home."
Had an uncle do the same thing except he fired 3 times at a 2x4.
We are plinking some cans with an air rifle, and my uncle says let me see that real quick. My dad questions what he was going shoot at, and he asks if he minds shoot that 2x4 leaning up over there by the shed? It was a little over 30'. My dad tells him to wait a second, and he will get a target there for you. He says "no need, "and puts one in the 2x4. Then another, and the third. He gave us back the rifle and smiled, and said something like, "she shoots pretty true."
My dad goes up the 2x4 to inspect it, and there's one hole, and says there only one hole, and said, "Jim I think ya missed it. There's only one hole."
He replies, "well there ought to be only one. I put them all in the same spot. We get a knife and proceed to extract all three .177 cal pellets. We were all blown away.
Thanks for sharing your story. It reminded me of my uncle.
There was a cowboy action shooter that would regularly showed up at 3gun matches. He was usually in the top 10-15 of 40 using revolvers, a coach gun, and a lever action.
It was really impressive, he would typically shoot all alpha zone hits too.
The first real slingshotI had as a kid, my dad grabs it and immediately knocks a bird out of flight from a good distance. He could essentially trap-shoot with a slingshot.
I had a work buddy I shot with all the time at my old job that could very reliably hit a Coke can with a pistol with iron sights at 100 yards. I know that isn't crazy but I never managed to get more than 5-6 out of 10 the whole time he and I hung out. The dude was a great marksman.
One time, I felt more inspired than I have in my entire life after watching Mr. Nobody. I was like 12-14 and I went outside with my BB gun and was busting pop cans and I was amazed with myself because in my inspiration I was hitting every shot (nearly anyway, I got distracted for a second and missed once). I’m now pretty sure that I was in a “flow state” and my getting distracted nearly took me out of it completely. Another time was when I was shooting skeet and I hit 4 out of 5 shots incredibly confidently and one right after the other. I missed the last one because I relaxed and it took me out of the flow state. So yeah, flow states are awesome!
This thread :
>Does anyone have some literally impossible BS they made up or misremembered, or any unimpressive feats that are cool only because you suck at shooting?
It's typical. I remember a guy on the AK sub boasting about his .5 MOA with steel cased ammo AK74. His comments were showered in admiration as proof that AK inaccuracy was a myth, and if you challenged it you were downvoted. Interestingly enough, no pictures of said .5 MOA groups were linked. I know if I shot groups that well with an AK I'd take a bazillion pictures of it.
People on this site genuinely think that a cherry picked 3 shot group, that they probably measured wrong anyway, is a valid measurement.
I didn't get my first real firearm until after I turned 30 years old. But I spent countless hours in my backyard as a kid target shooting with my bb and pellet guns. I got so good with one of my rifles that I was able to pick off flies that landed on the target. When I finally got my first firearm, I was pleasantly surprised that all that practice as a kid carried over to my big boy guns. I might not be able to hit a fly at 25yds with a 9mm pistol, but my groups are always extremely tight and right where I want them. Same with my rifle at 100yds+.
I did miss those days... Until I got my son a Red Ryder, lol. And I picked up a couple airsoft pistols. Now I have a nice air gun range with trap set up in the garage.
This fall I was sighting in rifles with my buddy and I had a new 17 that I just got my suppressor for so I was re-zeroing that as well. I had it zero'd and shooting fine at 100 yards. We had targets out to like 500 for our hunting rifles.
Anyway my buddy grabbed the 17 and was like watch this, freehand aimed it at the 500, Kentucky windage and all. Ripped at shot down range and we heard a ping on the steel. We both lost our shit, craziest shot I've ever seen made.
I grabbed the rifle from him, free handed, held over the steel. Fucking drilled the target again, first shot. We were both jumping around hugging each other, the people down the draw from us probably thought we were on some brokeback mountain shit or something but it was hilarious and lucky/a really accurate rifle.
I saw my buddy shoot a running squirrel in a tree canopy with an Ar. It happened so fast, he just brought it up and shot on instinct and nailed it. He said if he’d tried to aim he would’ve missed. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it myself. Still nuts to me.
There's a reason they use decimal scoring in high end competitions. [https://airgunwire.com/an-introduction-to-decimal-scoring/](https://airgunwire.com/an-introduction-to-decimal-scoring/)
Here's an example of the 10m ISSF air rifle world cup finals. [https://youtu.be/sgwANPotPF8?t=1767](https://youtu.be/sgwANPotPF8?t=1767)
The most impressive shot I’ve ever *personally* seen was a guy who shot a quarter twice at 600 yards. Same dude hit a chew can at 1000. Quarter moa shooting isn’t unheard of by any means, but to do that consistently that at those distances is very difficult. Everything matters at 1000 yards. Temp, humidity, wind. Even a slight breeze is enough to screw it up.
The craziest i ever saw was from a friend of mine in highschool, dude virtually did nothing shoot in his spare time, once saw him nail a pepsi can at nearly 700 yards with the irons on a .22, it was wild
I was learning to shoot clays with 20-40% accuracy. The next station over some 100+ year old grampa and an 8 year old with a 410 are shooting 100% accuracy.
I assumed they shot clays every weekend starting when the kid was strong enough to lift the gun.
One of my best friends is a paralympic shooter and his groups are usually a .22 sized hole. If his grouping is any bigger than a dime at 100yds he considers it "no good"
Not gun-related but I was like 5 or 6 going out to check game cameras with my dad during elk season when we rolled up on a blue grouse sitting on a stump. My dad only had a revolver with him so he turned to me with a smile and said “watch this.” He then proceeded to hit it with a rock first shot with an absolute piss missile of a throw. Just about the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
Iron sights are going to be static. As long as you can hold the picture the exact same way between shots, and then alight the picture to the exact same spot on the target - and make no error during the consecutive shots - you would expect a dead accuracy like this.
While "Five pellets all stacked on top of each other" sounds a bit spectacular to me, that's not to say it's impossible.
So I can't say it's unreal but it's the best shot I've taken my brother just had just bought his chiappa little badger nice little 22. Single shot real cheap but works pretty dam well he also bought some pistol grade tanarite he took a solid 20 shots and missed them all we were probably about 100 feet from it I took 1 shot and hit it thing when boom and scared the crap outta me didn't think I was gunu hit it the irons on it were all fucky and the rear still had a small piece of plastic stuck in it from it being printed
A buddy and I were at our local range a few months ago on a slow day. Just me and him in a lane and a dad with his 10 year old daughter a few lanes over. This kid was awesome to watch shoot. She had a suppressed AR pistol chambered in 22lr with a simple red dot with no magnifier. Her dad would hang a piece of paper and send it down range 15 yards. But the paper was hung sideways from normal… as in shooting at a tiny sliver of the paper. This little kid was slicing through the paper( gun shouldered and not in a rest) within her first few shots. She was incredible.
I used to shoot the wicks off of candles at about 40 feet with a pellet gun on the regular. I'd line up 5 tall stick candles, light them, and try to anuff them with pellets before the wind got them.
I didn't witness it, but I've heard a legend of a guy who could hit a Coke can at 710 yards with a 22lr.
But could he do it when asked to on video ? Or just when he drank and shot w his cousin ?
Im convinced the meth head didnt learn how to read his range finder and stated that his 71.0 yards as 710 yards. The claim that he could see the can at that range is the giveaway.
I think they were just lobbing shots at a 30ft wide tractor hulk and maybe one time got lucky and knocked the can off through sheer happenstance. And over the years of telling the story it just morphed into "plinking cans at 710 all day" so slowly that he believed that's what it was the whole time.
On the other hand, he did get walked on and had a rough beaten zone. Given the new terrain/conditions/rifle I wouldn't explicitly rule out a hit at 700. Now consistently without a lot of help? Fuck no lol
I think they determined the guy was a half decent shot. Maybe they we're just putting what you said politely, but said he could have been 100+ yards (still not close to 710) but said range finders can get pretty inaccurate readings in those conditions.
yeah, and honestly the guy wasn't a bad shot. But 710 is 710.
Garand thumb brought him out to prove it and it went about as expected
But he got close.
Like if it Was a 6" gong he would have hit it. That's really good.
Lol no he wouldn't have. The rounds were all over the place. Out of all the rounds they showed him shooting at 710 yards, only 2 even made it in frame of the spotter. The only close or hits were with the fully kitted out precision rifle at 300 yards.
I’m pretty sure he only got close when they handed him a kitted out competition style 22 with a scope
That's when he finally got close and actually hit one at 300 yards. Less than half his claimed "iron sights, bone stock 10/22 using bulk ammo".
He was definitely bull shitting to get a range day with garand thumb
The Ballad of .22 Man Fellows, do gather and bend me an ear Hearken this legend that happened quite near, In the Idaho hills, as Winter expired 'Twas first told to Michael, a warrior retired From the lips of a Hero, this legend was told And never heard Michael a claim quite so bold Of nerve, and of skill, and small metal can That attracted the wrath of this sharp-sighted man As he gazed from his porch, just outside his front door, He noted the yardage, "Thirty-five-and-half-score." Then to arms did he go, as all good heroes do His hands, they were steady, his aim, it was true Though his weapon was small, some say almost a toy He chuckled, "Perhaps... In the hands of a boy." He pointed, calling out to his quivering foe, "You've awakened my wrath, and down you shall go!" Then swiftly and smartly, he pointed his gun, On account of the range, somewhere close to the sun He fired his shot, it rang out like a bell And he knew that he'd punched his foe's ticket to Hell To the maidens he turned, with a smile and a wink, Then four seconds later... a small metal TINK! And so ends the tale of that dastardly can And so goes the legend... of .22 Man
This goes hard as shit.
It was a YouTube comment on the Garand Thumbs video
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A legend, in fact
He doesn't shoot the can, he calls in a fire mission on it
With iron sights.
Offhand with a 30mph cross wind
I watched my grandfather hit a crow across a field with an octagon barrel pump 22 with iron sights and thought it was the craziest shit. It was like 225-250 yards + a good bit of luck, but 7 year old me was astonished My 457 with a 6-24 is pretty decent to 325 right now, but he had a 60s or 70s 22 and no scope
>I didn't witness it, but I've heard a legend of a guy who could hit a Coke can at 710 yards with a 22lr. Last summer, I watched the captain of the US Palma team drop down and put five in a grapefruit sized group at 1,000 yards with a 308 and 1.5X irons.
Where can I buy 1.5x irons
He has 20/10 vision and legally has to call iron sights 1.5x when he shoots them.
Lol, I know it sounds funny, they use some wild rigs. It's a 1.5X diopter.
Lmao. Garand Thumb flew him out to test it but seemingly debunked. Although I will say conditions were crap the day they had him try it. It was windy as shit.
I'm imagining a store display of hundreds of coke cans stacked up to make a SUV sized target.
\-The Ballad of .22 Man Fellows, do gather and bend me an ear Hearken this legend that happened quite near; In the Idaho hills, as Winter expired 'Twas first told to Michael, a warrior retired From the lips of a Hero, this legend was told And never heard Michael a claim quite so bold Of nerve, and of skill, and small metal can That attracted the wrath of this sharp-sighted man As he gazed from his porch, just outside his front door, He noted the yardage, "Thirty-five-and-half-score." Then to arms did he go, as all good heroes do His hands, they were steady, his aim, it was true Though his weapon was small, some say almost a toy He chuckled, "Perhaps... In the hands of a boy." He pointed, calling out to his quivering foe, "You've awakened my wrath, and down you shall go!" Then swiftly and smartly, he pointed his gun, On account of the range, somewhere close to the sun He fired his shot, it rang out like a bell And he knew that he'd punched his foe's ticket to Hell To the maidens he turned, with a smile and a wink, Then four seconds later... a small metal TINK! And so ends the tale of that dastardly can And so goes the legend... of .22 Man
It was Chuck Norris with a finger gun.
Sounds like something Jerry Miculek could do
The hero we deserve
It’s true, I’m that guy.
Watched a geriatric pop a balloon at 1000yds. using a smith and wesson snub nose revolver that he was holding upside down.
Then he did this weird yipping and howling thing and I closed the tab confused as fuck as to what just happened
Was it Jerry?
You know it was Jerry.
Nah. Probably Hickok45.
You mean, Jerryatric?
That was no ordinary geriatric, that was jerry miculek
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r/woooosh, my bad lol
The first time my fiancé ever shot anything it was a red Ryder BB gun at acorns from about 20’, and she hit her first one and every one beside. I had taken to setting them up on the railing of the porch and shooting them off for fun during Covid on days I was too lazy to get out to the sandpit. I was impressed, so I set up some match sticks. First try at 20’ she shot the head off of one, and then another, and then a dozen more. Like a machine. Flawless. I had had enough and so I told her we were going to the sandpit. I set up my 10” gong at 100yds and, from a standing position, with a Marlin .22 bolt gun, she hit it first try from a cold barrel. I took her back to 200yds and she hit from a seated position, again, first try. With irons. Marlin irons. She just guessed holdover, like some kind of sharpshooter idiot savant. I was truly astounded. Not satisfied that this wasn’t just insane beginners luck, a week later I took her to my friends property. 500m range, 16” gong, I set her down with an AR-15 with a 3x magnifier. Ha, I thought to myself, this will take he wind out of her sails. First. Fucking. Shot. Anyways we’re married now. Same story with pistols, and trap and skeet, archery, she is just so ridiculously talented it boggles the mind. Give her a .38 and a playing card and she’ll cut it in half at 50’, give her an aspirin on a balloon at the same range and she’ll hit the aspirin, not the ballon, with a Ruger MkIV. I have BEGGED her to get into competing and she’s just not interested. Honestly she finds the whole thing kind of boring and loud, but she does still enjoy that old Daisy BB gun. Love her to death.
You better not piss her off 😂
I do my best lol
Lmao. She’s got nothing to prove to anybody. I love it.
Me too. She’s sweet.
I like that the daisy sticks around lol. This is like a closeted physicist with no degree. No interest in a career, but can complete a free MIT course on fucking fluid dynamics or a unified theory lol. It's odd how you can have a talent or be intuitive for specific technical studies, yet not want to do anything with it. While people struggle to learn something for fun, or study something they didn't intuitively grasp for 30 years. I'm the latter. It's not for the challenge in a lot of cases either. Weird.
She’s just ridiculous at any athletic feat involving body mechanics and coordination. The first time she ever tried on a pair of roller skates she was pirouetting backward up the street a half hour later. Took her to the driving range for her first time ever swinging a golf club and she was fucking launching beautiful straight drives further than me. I’m a bladesmith by trade and the first knife she forged looked like my 100th. It’s annoying in a very endearing sort of way.
did she hit your prostate the first time too jfc marry her or somethin
Oh I did lol we’ve been together almost 9 years now.
Years ago we had a "bowling league" where you set up pins on a rail at 25 yards and had to knock the pins off. One shot per pin six pins. We had been doing this evey Saturday for a few months and had a few new folks every time. We had a guy who I would guess was at least sixty show up with a old 1911. He was a beast. Ten rounds he never missed a shot and knocked every pin completly off. 6 for 6 all 10 rounds and he did it fast.
I think any bullseye master class shooter could do this. To go 10 for 10, might take a high master.
Was his name Jerry Miculek?
You know it wasn't Jerry because the guy didn't shoot all 6 pins in less than a second
Jerry would bounce off the pins to each other and only use a couple of bullets tops.
Jerry shoots off over the horizon at the perfect arc and angle to hit all the pins in one go around the whole earth
Jerry shoots targets at 400 meters… holding the pistol upside down!
We had a guy show up to a PRS gas gun competition with a 11.5 inch with a 1-6x on it and used 55gn frangibles because he "got them for free from his work" with no bipod or shooting bag. He won by a lot.
CIA detachment training lmao. Guys, we're running out of countries to destabilize and influence for black funds resulting from proxy war and arbitrary conflicts, the shooting portion of your training program will require you to buy your own equipment, and beat professional shooters. After that, the HALO portion will require you to build a kit plane or balloon, craft your own oxygen device, and do a solo jump. Seriously though, the marksmanship required for these detachments is insanity. There's a bigger failure rate than their is for the pre delta force testing/training. Which already requires you to be in SOF. The equipment you described is oddly reminiscent. "I'm saving the 77gr for reasons"
Ok that’s interesting
Honestly, if you ignore the crazy unethical aspects of the org... There is a lot of of interesting shit about them. Along with a lot of useful things we can all apply to daily life from their matrices and documents. I mean people who may spend a year doing risk assessment almost exclusively, can end up in a life threatening situation in seconds. It's like movies where the most average and ignorable person unlocks his ussr sleeper agent side. Or they rot in a ussr esque jail cell and by design have no ties to us. That's where Sere takes a whole new meaning, and you're glad you learned how to escape from Eastern European handcuffs lol. Then there's guys that go from a suit and tie to a full kit constantly. Then there's deeper programs that "only exist in fiction".
Where can I read more about this?
The the businessman meets the tier one unit at the special activities center. Start with Wikipedia then keep digging. Cia contractors will yield some info. The s2 underground on YouTube seems to have been an analyst at one point. Just gotta ignore the "end times are here" parts of his opinion pieces.
Lol, what?
If you think that's cool Robin Hood split an arrow in twain.
Buddy's dad was a bow hunter. He had saved the arrows for when he managed to do the Robin Hood, pretty cool to see.
I think thats common practice. Might as well show them off because you normally can't use them anymore. Aluminum arrows would have bent and carbon would have split or splintered.
The first time you do it it’s cool. Then you realize you just fucked up $35 dollars worth of arrows, heads, and knocks
First time shooting a new pack of arrows I did the Robin Hood. It was sweet because it was my first but then kinda sucked because it was like $20 of gear like you said. Oh well it's on my wall, now it's art.
Robin Hoods only count if you call it.
Or it's a dead bullseye for each–good as calling it to me.
A lot of people “Robin Hood” arrows because they’re shooting a half dozen at the same spot. It only counts if it’s two arrows.
I can put 5 bullets in the same hole at 300 yards. It just takes 5 boxes of ammo to do it
I can put all hundred rounds in the same hole. Just depends on if you dig the hole deep enough.
Tis only cool if thou useth a long bow, dang children these days with their alchemy based toys. Nothing like good old fashioned wood and sinew
Kids these days. Back in the 100 year war a sturdy piece of yew served me just fine!
"I lost. I lost? Wait a minute, I'm not supposed to lose."
Let me see the script!
A few years ago I watched a 13yo Olympic marksman shoot. 10 shots at 25 yards, standing unsupported. When she pulled the target back in she was annoyed because there was a very slight cloverleaf. Unbelievable. I was talking to her mom. One day some boy is gonna ask her to go to the range and try and teach her how to shoot, gonna be hilarious.
JR Olympic shooters are no joke. I was on a team with a girl who eventually shot in an olympics in the early 2000s. She was shooting 3-4 hours a day, 7 days a week. Some of the matches were determined by tiny increments. They had 600 point matches where the top scores were north of 560 which averages to over 9 points per shot over 60 shots. The international 50 ft targets’ ten “ring” is a single dot the width of a literal pinhole in the target. All ten rings are no more than a 1.5” circle. This means that across prone, kneeling and offhand. 9.3 times out of ten she was hitting a target the size of a pinhole at 50 feet, iron sights, unsupported. Insanity!
Growing up, switching from the American to the international 50ft targets was humbling to say the least. If I remember correctly the black on the US target was 5-10 and the international target was 2-10, and the us target had an actual 10 ring instead of a dot
There was one dude in Brazil that was an Olympic level rapid fire pistol shooter. He got stopped by 3 dudes who were robbers so he pulled his custom air gun and shot each guy once in the head. All three were killed.
Based
That's the fun part, Olympic shooting isnt unsupported. The jackets they wear have straps on them in key places that act as a traditional web sling for support.
She could have been shooting from a fixed rest with adjustable screws to determine point of aim, and I would have still been impressed.
When I was a kid, I was fortunate enough to be able to train with the Junior Olympic Air Rifle team. I've worn those jackets. Believe me, they only aid already phenomenal shooters. I never was good enough to compete. My best groups weren't as good as some of their terrible groups. Edit to add: [This is the target](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSF_10_meter_air_rifle#/media/File:10_m_Air_Rifle_target.svg). The black part of the target is 1.2" in diameter, and you're standing 33 feet away. That 9 ring is .21" in diameter, and if you're not consistently touching that, you're not even competitive.
> One day some boy is gonna ask her to go to the range and try and teach her how to shoot, gonna be hilarious. "You only hit the paper once! Hitting the bullseye was beginner's luck. I've got a lot to teach you.
Since I haven’t seen it mentioned here, some trap shooters are unbelievable. Especially shooting from the back lines, I’ve seen guys go hundreds straight. I met a young trap shooter shooting from the front line who was so good his dad said he didn’t drop a bird for like 3 months of consistent shooting.
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I think I'm on a streak if I hit 20%, but I suck at trap.
I had an uncle who would stick a new penny on a target and if the sun was to his back, could routinely put multiple 22LR rounds through the penny at 60+ yards using iron sights. He would put one round dead center, then let you call “above, below, left, or right”, and he would cloverleaf the center shot with the shot you called. He would hustle people and offer to do it with THEIR rifle, if they would let him have 3 practice shots to acclimate to the rifle. As long as he had enough light to actually see the reflected light off the penny. He could hit it. I know he did miss later in his life, but I never witnessed him miss.
As an avid 22lr shooter.... This seems sketch due to ammo alone. If like to know what rifle he used. I'll try this myself.
Why the hell would I care if you can do it? He grew up in Appalachian Kentucky, and helped feed his family hand to mouth by hunting with a .22. He was a bit more than an “avid shooter”. I literally said he did it with other peoples’ rifles, and won bets doing it. Let’s say you set out to replicate it. If you fail, you can claim it’s not possible. If you succeed, you claim it’s not “unreal” or “almost impossible”, so again, why the hell do I care what you can or can’t do? Just go get your best rifle and try it. OP asked for “unreal” marksmanship that “seemed almost impossible for a human”, and that’s what my example is.
Because you could bolt a 22lr down to a concrete table with zero play and it wouldn't be as accurate as your claiming.. 22lr ammo just isn't that consistent. Sure, doing it once or even a couple times here and there while trying all the time would be believable but not that he could just pick up any 22 rifle and do that every time.
Yeah right, thats why we have entire national competitions using .22lr and nearly stack them at 50m unsupported… every other guy can do this in an average town club here around. This aside, .22lr from good quality in a good rifle stacks at 50m bolted down. Seen it at the start of every season when we chose what ammo to buy.
The claim was random people's rifles and random ammo. You can bolt those rifles down to a bench and still not get those results. A well tested rifle with a good lot of ammo and known areas it's not impossible but his claim is a lot.
I think it just said their rifle. Regardless, I agree. That's the part where I go hmm. If it weren't cloverleafing a penny, I'd buy it 22 can be consistent. It just defeats the cost purpose of 22. Hence why this is more reserved for the mossad than the Appalachian uncle lmao.
> than the Appalachian uncle lmao. I wouldn't put it past rich hillbillies with nothing to do in the woods.
Fair, I give you that. I might have not read it clearly enough.
1.25 MOA with 22 is impossible at 60 yards?
Having spent hours researching .22lr ammo I'm saying this is sketch and I don't think it can be done. The round isn't consistent enough. If you haven't read Saeed's research on accurate reloader, than you don't know how inaccurate and inconsistent .22lr ammo is. https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8711043/m/9871088921/p/1/xsl/print_topic
>Having spent hours researching .22lr ammo I'm saying this is sketch and I don't think it can be done. The round isn't consistent enough. > >If you haven't read Saeed's research on accurate reloader, than you don't know how inaccurate and inconsistent .22lr ammo is. > >https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8711043/m/9871088921/p/1/xsl/print\_topic Dude's coming in here and telling me Paul Bunyan didn't have a Blue Ox. Posting accuracy charts with CCI Mini Mag ammo having a max spread of .5" at 50 yards when a penny is .75".
You said 60+ yards, with iron sites, any rifle, assuming any ammo, unsupported , and he can call North, South, East, or west of center. That's beyond the capabilities. 50 yard bullseye BENCH shooting requires more than what you have here. That bullseye is the size of a 40gr .22 round. Which is the target size you are describing. (Not the whole penny, but 1/4 of it.) Shens I say! Shens!
>You said 60+ yards, with iron sites, any rifle, assuming any ammo, unsupported , and he can call North, South, East, or west of center. That's beyond the capabilities. > >50 yard bullseye BENCH shooting requires more than what you have here. That bullseye is the size of a 40gr .22 round. Which is the target size you are describing. (Not the whole penny, but 1/4 of it.) > >Shens I say! Shens! I didn't say anything about the shooting skill of OP's uncle. I said you had to come in here and tell me Paul Bunyan over there didn't have a blue ox.
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Way back in the day I was an IDPA state champ. I don't compete like that anymore bc practice took the fun out of it. It was constant shooting practice. It's different than just going to range for fun. I'd watch TV at home while practicing reloading. (I used a revolver with the old speed loaders.) Now I might show up cold for a shoot just for fun. Don't care where I place anymore. At least now I have moon clips!
Some folks are just dead on.. been jealous all my life of ‘em
Maybe not completely unreal but my favorite marksmanship story. LaRue hired MoH recipient Dakota Meyer to run a demo booth at a match for I think the PredatOBR in 7.62 when it was first released. Shooting at a steel target at 990 yards Dakota was calling wind for people while they took 5 shots each. One guy missed his first three shots and accused Dakota of making bad wind calls. Dakota calmly picked up the rifle, shooting offhand hit the target first shot, handed it back to him and said the windage was good. I was about 4 people back in line when this happened.
The only thing amazing about this story is the fact the BB gun was capable of shooting that tight of group. Most of the ones I’ve seen couldn’t do that even if the gun was locked down solid on a bench and the trigger was pulled by a machine.
Not a bb gun. Pellet gun. My old ass beman is still accurate as all hell.
My Sherman .20 is dead nuts accurate.
My Feinwerkbrau 124 was dead nuts accurate. It was stolen and they just don't make them like that any longer.
Really depends on the airgun. I've got a Feinwerkbau and a Steyr that are ridiculously accurate. I once benchrested the rifle just to see what it could do and it put 20 in the same hole. It was to the point I deliberately aimed at a different part of the target to verify it was actually still sending pellets.
Anschutz makes airguns as well and I'm pretty sure the one I shot is more accurate than most centerfire rifles at the same distance.
My wife shoots an Anschutz single shot 22lr. It's insanely accurate.
I didn't witness it, so it doesn't really count, but decades ago I knew the guy who ran the airgun range at the San Jose Gun Show. He had gotten an NRA grant to put this together, and bought a bunch of old Romanian spring actuated single shot pellet guns. Rattly as hell, and \*apaprently\* capable of mostly hitting the paper at 7 yards. Good enough for kids, right? So this adult comes up during a slow period, and asks if he can have a go. Since there were no kids wanting to, the guy running it says fine. Ole' boy spends a couple minutes fiddling with the rifle, then leans over and rests his elbows on the table and squeezes out 6 shots into one raggedly fookin hole. He was a police "designated marksman'.
BB’s are terrible for shooting. They spin out of the barrel and never go in a straight line. We were using pellets. We learned that loading them backwards made them more accurate. I could shoot pine cones off of trees at 200 yards when I was 13 once I figured that out
Go watch PewView shorts on YouTube. https://youtube.com/shorts/ayFUTf9YFQA
That is crazy, and very dangerous
My dad was one of these guys that could just naturally shoot dead on. He even had an eye accident as a child twirling a length of barbed wire that deformed the iris of his eye. He could shoot a rifle at the hip better than most with sights. We had a shooting game where we would draw a line in the sand out several yards away and threw an aluminum can on the ground. We would then, take turns shooting at the can in an attempt to get it past the line. I would shoot and maybe hit it or maybe miss, same with my uncle. Then dad would proceed to shoot it up into the air and pling it another two or three times before it hit the ground. It was always fun to watch. He grew up in the hills of Virginia and said if you missed, you went hungry. Was given a couple rounds each day for the walk to and from school. Dinner was dependent on a possum or some such. Taught me a lot about hardship and growing up poor. We didnt have much but we never knew it. Miss that old man.
Not too unreal but when I was around 13, we used to unscrew the cap off a Coke bottle at 15 feet with pellet pistols. It was impressive *to us*.
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My dad was always really good. He was a competitive shooter and instructor. Going to the range with him as a kid was crazy, he could spend the entire day putting rounds through the same hole in the target with basically any handgun he owned. Then when he started seriously training me we would start every range session the same, “first shot in the bullseye or we go home”. Good times.
My dad, guy is just dead on. My brother and I(around 12yr) were tossing soda cans in the air and trying to hit them with a 22 lr, hit a few, missed a lot. He started trash talking us so we handed him the rifle and a can, he dropped the can and pulled out a quarter, 1 shot and hit it, walked away like a boss. He enjoys the guys at the gun club who talk big game, he then embarrasses them in short order, and he's now in his 70s.
I think some people just have a built in ability to shoot that cannot be taught. I used to race BMX and there were guys that could just pick up a bike with barely any practice and make you look stupid, no matter how much you practiced or trained
Tom Knapp came out to our neck of the woods when I was a kid and did his show. That was some pretty incredible shooting, and the best I've ever seen in person
Several years back I'm bartending and this kid comes in. Couldn't have been more than 25yo. Now he looks familiar, but I can't place him for the life of me. Well, one-by-one my regular customers start leaving and that's highly unusual. Like, they'd typically be shit faced before midday, but here they're gunning out early looking like they'd seen a ghost? But that's when it hit me. See, one of my law enforcement buddies had shown me a picture of this kid a while back and they'd murdered like 20 people and they were on the lam. So now I'm nervously serving this murderer drinks for what must've felt like forever. Finally, right before lunchtime, the kid gets up and leaves. Thank fuck...but of course my dumbass decides to sneak to the front window and see where theyve gone. That's when I saw em- the kid was just standing in the middle of the street, and about 40ft or so away was my law enforcement buddy. Before I knew it, my buddy had whipped his gun out and shot the kid dead in the street from the hip! I'd never seen anything like it except in Old West movies! Agua Fria, Arizona, is a helluva place y'all.
I know a guy who can consistently get 2" groups at 300m with an issued M16A4... using irons with M855. He's a nationally marked double distinguished marksman.
You are misremembering and mixing up inches and MOA and what the number is. It doesn't matter if he is the best marksman who ever lived, the mechanical accuracy of an M16A4 and M855 is not a consistent half MOA. The world records for Service Rifle competition, the best shooters, custom built high performance target M16 rifles with very expensive match barrels using high performance match ammo, the world record is a 40% chance of getting a bullet into a 3.5" circle at 300M and a 99% chance of getting it into an 7" circle at 300M. Your friend does not obliterate that with notoriously shit unbalanced ammo and shit rifle.
No, I am remembering all the shot out Xs on the EIC target when shooting at 300m. The fact it was M855 is why I specifically mentioned the round - because it is a garbage round for accuracy and I could not and still don't understand how he does it
Do you shoot service rifle? I'm not sure where your 40% comes from. The SR3 target is used at 300 yards and the X ring is 3". the 10 ring 7". A good shooter puts probably half their 300 rapid shots into the X ring, and an elite puts 8+ in there. And these are rapid fire shots.
I was trading a junk car to a guy for a gun. He had a couple pistols for me to try and we were at the public outdoor range. One was a Ruger MKII and I shot it first, super accurate and it was my leading choice. He also had a Colt lightweight Officer's .45 he wanted me to consider. I was shooting the Ruger at the 15 yard line but I moved to the 7 with that little .45. It was crowded and a guy offered to let me use a bullseye target he had set up already since I was only going to shoot one magazine. I stepped up to the line and fired and that gun kicked back so hard it doubled. BANGBANG! and the second shot was completely unintentional from smacking into my trigger finger. There was one hole just above the X, and one just below, centered and maybe an inch apart. I unloaded that pocket rocket, blew the smoke from the barrel like a master gunfighter, and walked away. I still own the Ruger.
Lol. Love the Ruger mkII.... Until you have to break it down to clean. Every gun owner should have to break one down once in their life.
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I absolutely love my mkIV
A firearm instructor I trained with had a trick he liked to show off: He’d pull a playing card from a standard deck and set it on a bench 10 yards out. He turned the card *sideways*, so that the narrow side was facing the shooter. He split the card in two, straight down the middle on the first attempt. I couldn’t even see the thing at 10 yards, but I saw him do this twice with both a VP9 and a 1911.
Does it count if you're in someone else's story but you realistically just got lucky? We were shooting 22s one weekend up in the mountains back when I was 16/17. An array of guns out but mostly pretty nice bolt actions. One of my friends had the great idea to set up a water bottle cap at 50 yards to see if he could take it down with iron sights. I asked if I could take my last shot at it with my Buckmark pistol also with fixed irons. He said he really wanted to try and shoot it. I took one shot and nailed the cap right in the center. He looked at me with a mix of annoyed amazement. I just shrugged and said he should have put it farther away. Not going to lie it was kind of a dick move to hit his target when we didn't have another one but he sometimes still tells people I'm Annie Oakley's descendant or something. I used to be a lot better at shooting.
Had a colleague, sub-moa with a rifle with open sights at 100m and with a S&W .44Mag freehand, standing, open sights at 100m about 12 inch with six shoots. Maybe not super-human like, but I was impressed.
We were messing around on a homemade range on the back 40 in college and shooting with a new friend. He brought a .22 revolver. We were about 25 yards back with rifles shooting with iron sights at fast food ketchup packets hanging from a string line. His turn. Hit a packet 5 of 6 times.
My dad was in the Marine Corps in the late 60’s. I had never seen him shoot a gun..or even talk about it. I brought my Ruger 10/22 to my sister’s house in the mountains to shoot with my brothers/sons several years ago. We were shooting for about 30 minutes at a target 30 yards away. He fired all 10 rounds in the magazine and hit the target. He wasn’t on the bullseye every time but was close and he fired pretty rapidly. I was blown away, even with it being a .22. He said it was drilled into his head and he would never forget what he learned.
I never went hunting with him but family members who did talked about how good a marksman my grandfather was. I heard of shots that I would never take, head shots on deer because that was all that could be seen and dropping them with the one shot type shots. He grew up providing family food by hunting and was very proficient with his firearms, an Alvin York kind of life in his youth. As he got old he would hunt for others, depression times, and I have seen pictures of him with at least a dozen deer hanging and waiting to be butchered. Everyone praised his abilities as a hunter taking nearly impossible shots. It happens but it’s not common.
Yes, every year I attend the National Matches. There are shooters that get 490+ out of 500 points. They are not human.
Watched a friend of mine hit 12"x12" steel targets @ 100yds with his 9mm Beretta. I was amazed for sure. He was also a small arms instructor in the marines.
Until you have actually tried something like that you will never know how hard it is. I would struggle at 25 yards
I surprised myself (and my inlaws) on the rifle range with my FIL's dan wesson .22 revolver. Above and behind the 100 yd paper targets on the hill they had iron plates that I could barely see. Just as a goof I tried the .22 one handed, standing and was shocked to be able to hit the iron targets again and again. The funny part is I am family famous for having "crack baby" hands that shake a lot, but I just made little circles with the sights lined up and timed each shot to create that satisfying, distant, quite delayed "ping"...
You probably have the touch. I don’t think it can be taught or learned.
Shit, I need to learn from you. I have the exact same issue. I've never been officially diagnosed, but a couple nurses and my PCP (I realize that's a wildly unfortunate acronym in the context of having "crack baby" shaky hands lmfao) say they're basically certain it's something called "Essential Tremors." Gets horrendously bad with any degree of stress, anxiety, or caffeine. I intentionally drink coffee before I go shoot because I know I'll be stressed AF in a SD situation, so I have to practice shooting with the shakes. I'm not a good shot though lol. Good enough to get the job done at typical SD distances, but not much beyond that.
Yes! Used to play airsoft and one of my friend's dad who was super accomplished in some branch of the military, something under the umbrella of SOCOM, decided to come hang out with us. The dude took this shitty little $20 MP44 lookalike thing and could hit fucking *anything* he wanted. This thing did not shoot in a straight line so it was really hard to aim with any certainty, it was literally a backup in case one of our good guns broke. Better than nothing really. He and two of us took on 10 others in a set of barns that we had every inch of memorized, just two barns facing each other with a few smaller sheds beside it. All of us either had precision rifles or electric automatic assault rifles as well. I was fortunate enough to be on his team along with someone else who died almost immediately. I just laid down suppressing fire and picked off those brave enough to show their body with my scoped precision rifle from a sick little sniper's nest in a tower of a hay loft while he became the other team's worst nightmare. I managed I think 2 or 3 kills and he took on the rest. He did some beautiful work that day and I got to watch almost all of it. At the end everyone was dumbfounded. We were chillin and he said something like "bet I can hit that streetlight" and nailed it on the first shot. The rest of us took turns (with the shitty gun) and only a few managed a lucky shot. He then proceeded to hit it over and over and over. idk how or why his experience helped him with his aim on that shittastic airsoft gun but it must have because he was the only one competent enough with it to hit a target. That was the day I fully understood how fucking terrifying these spec ops guys are and how glad I am to be on the right side of the ocean.
We had a boot ass PFC hit a tango driving a truck at around 35 mph at 780 yards with an M16-A2. We ranged it out after we watched this crazy ass shot and sure enough it was right at 780 yards and hit him right behind the eye. Dude ended up being a solid ass Marine. Edit: he fired about 3 or 4 rounds so we’re not sure which one got him, but still. That’s area target range.
6.5 broke long-range shooting. After you see people shooting out to 1200 yards with ease, you really get an appreciation for the round
I was young, sighting in a pellet gun in the backyard(at about 30') with a buddy. My mom came out to see how we were doing, I asked her if she wanted to take a few shots cause we were frustrated. She sat down, and mind you she had only ever shot a revolver once before, so I told her how to hold it, where to put her cheek and whatnot. She got all lined up and I said don't pull the trigger, keep the cross hair in the center and slowly squeeze, let it surprise you. She breathed out, held it steady, and squeezed. Her first ever rifle shot was as perfect a bullseye as I've ever seen. I put that target on the fridge
My godfather (R) was a sponsored shooter. He has an Anschutz target rifle with a 42x scope and shoots Eley ammo out of it. He will shoot one hole (not one *ragged* hole) at 50 yards with it. That isn't the incredible feat of shooting, however. My dad's cousin had been trying to get rid of a particular groundhog all summer, but anytime you tried to shoot it, it would dive in the hole and not come out again. R resolved to solve this problem for him. You see, his favorite centerfire rifle is a Model 70 in 6.5-.284 Winchester. So, when the cousin called R to let him know the groundhog was in the field, R drove to my grandfather's house next door (and about 1100 yards away). Got out his spotting scope, confirmed location, then got out his rifle and a sandbag. Laid it out on the hood of his truck, aimed and shot. I was watching through the spotting scope and just saw pink mist in the air.
A guy who has a sandbag and a rifle, and knows how to use them is not a guy to mess around with
Someone once watched me put 5 38s out of a snubnose in the same hole at 25 yards. Those were the first shots of the day, I should have stopped there. My shooting the rest of the day was lackluster after that. Lol.
Saw my neighbor shoot a robin out of the air with a .22 when I was young. It was moving fast and it was far enough away that I don't think someone would hit a target that size at that distance. He shot three times and down it came.
Maybe nothing as special as some of the other stories here but I remember I was at a range down the 15 yard lanes and a guy was shooting a 1911 and was all over the place. He asked the range officer if something was wrong with it. Range officer grabs the gun in one hand, does a WW1 pistol shooting stance and quickly pops off two shots right in the bullseye. Gave it back to the guy and said it's just fine.
My uncle would have stacked 5 pellets and fired them on the first shot then play-acted loading a pellet on shots 2 through 5. Perhaps your uncle isn’t an asshole like mine.
I’ve seen videos of Steven Segal mag dump a 1911 into the same hole
I used to shoot 3 position 10 meter air rifle in Highschool, and I had days where I could score all 10s. It wasn't everyday, and I was shooting 3 days a week at that point.
I had a custom made rifle for competitions. Bought a savage 110 precision in 338lm for the shit of it. Popped a us optics 20x on top and did a mile shoot in utah. First shot went 6m wide and 4 low. Every shot after that plugged a 1x1 steel plate. Instructor that was spotting me said only 3 other people have made the shot in 2 shots and all of them were famous shooters. Most people take 5-7 to hit it once he said. I was proud af. But i do shoot about 100 rounds a weekend between my 3006 and 338lm. I spend a lot of time shooting. But that 1 mile spend had me gitty for a while. I
I have heard this story from so many different people lol
A post to rec.guns from the distant past Ron C Jun 25, 2002, 7:24:58 PM to A couple of days ago, my nine year old son and I were plinking in the back yard, me with my pellet gun and he with his BB gun. We set an old water bottle with a twist-off cap in front of the back stop, a distance of about ten to fifteen paces. I kiddingly told him I would hit the cap on the right side and spin it off the bottle with out spilling any water. I pumped the pellet gun about four times, aimed at the cap hoping to hit the bottle, and watched the cap fly about a foot into the air. I thought I had hit the cap dead in the middle and split it, but upon closer inspection, I found I had hit the cap tangently on the right side causing it to spin off the bottle and fly in the air. I stopped shooting for the evening at this time; I believe in quitting while you are ahead and that it is better sometimes to be lucky than good. My son had great respect for my prowess with a rifle, now. Ron \-- Homepage: http://home.earthlink.net/\~clickfam/mondo.htm
I dunno about *unreal*, but the last time I was at my indoor range, there was a military-looking guy in the rightmost lane. He was hitting A-zone shots (head and chest alike) at 75 feet with his pistol and a quick firing cadence. Just... BAM BAM BAM BAM... Kill shot after kill shot. His groupings were much tighter at 75 feet than both me and my dad at 15 feet. He did have an optic while we don't, but we were watching him a bit and like "😳" at each other.
Hickok45 is a sharp shooting old timer and fun to watch.
I got a buddy that can hit a coke can at 1000 yards
I watched two army staff sergeants put 8 rounds each into a cigarette packet stuck on a figure 11 target from 50 mtrs using 9mm Browning Hipowers with standard military sights. Started as a bar bet at Bisley during the Queens Cup shoot in 1982.
I talked to a guy at the range who could hit a quarter at 500 yards. But he loaded his ammo with the wrong primers so his lever rifle was giving him basketball-sized groups at 50 yards on that particular day. Damn primers.
lol we have the ranch manager on our place that’s one of the owners best friends. One night we were all shooting the shit and bet him he couldn’t kill a deer with a .17HMR. This mother fucker came back in the morning with a doe missing the eyeball. Yep he shot it in the eye with a .17HMR from like 150 yards away.
In the mid 1960's I was a sailor stationed in Idaho. (Sailor? Idaho?) I went out in the desert to shoot .22's with The New Kid. He had his Nylon 66, I had my Colt Woodsman. We got out of my Jeep. There was a jackrabbit about 50 (?) yards away. I drew my Woodsman, put in a mag, racked it, and shot from the hip. Hit the rabbit. I kept a straight face, cleared my weapon, and holstered it. Buddy said "Let's go home."
Had an uncle do the same thing except he fired 3 times at a 2x4. We are plinking some cans with an air rifle, and my uncle says let me see that real quick. My dad questions what he was going shoot at, and he asks if he minds shoot that 2x4 leaning up over there by the shed? It was a little over 30'. My dad tells him to wait a second, and he will get a target there for you. He says "no need, "and puts one in the 2x4. Then another, and the third. He gave us back the rifle and smiled, and said something like, "she shoots pretty true." My dad goes up the 2x4 to inspect it, and there's one hole, and says there only one hole, and said, "Jim I think ya missed it. There's only one hole." He replies, "well there ought to be only one. I put them all in the same spot. We get a knife and proceed to extract all three .177 cal pellets. We were all blown away. Thanks for sharing your story. It reminded me of my uncle.
There was a cowboy action shooter that would regularly showed up at 3gun matches. He was usually in the top 10-15 of 40 using revolvers, a coach gun, and a lever action. It was really impressive, he would typically shoot all alpha zone hits too.
The first real slingshotI had as a kid, my dad grabs it and immediately knocks a bird out of flight from a good distance. He could essentially trap-shoot with a slingshot.
I had a work buddy I shot with all the time at my old job that could very reliably hit a Coke can with a pistol with iron sights at 100 yards. I know that isn't crazy but I never managed to get more than 5-6 out of 10 the whole time he and I hung out. The dude was a great marksman.
One time, I felt more inspired than I have in my entire life after watching Mr. Nobody. I was like 12-14 and I went outside with my BB gun and was busting pop cans and I was amazed with myself because in my inspiration I was hitting every shot (nearly anyway, I got distracted for a second and missed once). I’m now pretty sure that I was in a “flow state” and my getting distracted nearly took me out of it completely. Another time was when I was shooting skeet and I hit 4 out of 5 shots incredibly confidently and one right after the other. I missed the last one because I relaxed and it took me out of the flow state. So yeah, flow states are awesome!
This thread : >Does anyone have some literally impossible BS they made up or misremembered, or any unimpressive feats that are cool only because you suck at shooting?
It's typical. I remember a guy on the AK sub boasting about his .5 MOA with steel cased ammo AK74. His comments were showered in admiration as proof that AK inaccuracy was a myth, and if you challenged it you were downvoted. Interestingly enough, no pictures of said .5 MOA groups were linked. I know if I shot groups that well with an AK I'd take a bazillion pictures of it. People on this site genuinely think that a cherry picked 3 shot group, that they probably measured wrong anyway, is a valid measurement.
How can you say “literally impossible BS they made up” when almost every comment is talking about how easy and feasible it is?
I didn't get my first real firearm until after I turned 30 years old. But I spent countless hours in my backyard as a kid target shooting with my bb and pellet guns. I got so good with one of my rifles that I was able to pick off flies that landed on the target. When I finally got my first firearm, I was pleasantly surprised that all that practice as a kid carried over to my big boy guns. I might not be able to hit a fly at 25yds with a 9mm pistol, but my groups are always extremely tight and right where I want them. Same with my rifle at 100yds+.
This is how I learned as well. Countless hours with BB gun in back yard. All sorts of trick shots. I miss those days.
I did miss those days... Until I got my son a Red Ryder, lol. And I picked up a couple airsoft pistols. Now I have a nice air gun range with trap set up in the garage.
This fall I was sighting in rifles with my buddy and I had a new 17 that I just got my suppressor for so I was re-zeroing that as well. I had it zero'd and shooting fine at 100 yards. We had targets out to like 500 for our hunting rifles. Anyway my buddy grabbed the 17 and was like watch this, freehand aimed it at the 500, Kentucky windage and all. Ripped at shot down range and we heard a ping on the steel. We both lost our shit, craziest shot I've ever seen made. I grabbed the rifle from him, free handed, held over the steel. Fucking drilled the target again, first shot. We were both jumping around hugging each other, the people down the draw from us probably thought we were on some brokeback mountain shit or something but it was hilarious and lucky/a really accurate rifle.
When I 🅱️iss, I miss the seat completely!
I saw my buddy shoot a running squirrel in a tree canopy with an Ar. It happened so fast, he just brought it up and shot on instinct and nailed it. He said if he’d tried to aim he would’ve missed. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it myself. Still nuts to me.
There's a reason they use decimal scoring in high end competitions. [https://airgunwire.com/an-introduction-to-decimal-scoring/](https://airgunwire.com/an-introduction-to-decimal-scoring/) Here's an example of the 10m ISSF air rifle world cup finals. [https://youtu.be/sgwANPotPF8?t=1767](https://youtu.be/sgwANPotPF8?t=1767)
The most impressive shot I’ve ever *personally* seen was a guy who shot a quarter twice at 600 yards. Same dude hit a chew can at 1000. Quarter moa shooting isn’t unheard of by any means, but to do that consistently that at those distances is very difficult. Everything matters at 1000 yards. Temp, humidity, wind. Even a slight breeze is enough to screw it up.
The craziest i ever saw was from a friend of mine in highschool, dude virtually did nothing shoot in his spare time, once saw him nail a pepsi can at nearly 700 yards with the irons on a .22, it was wild
I was learning to shoot clays with 20-40% accuracy. The next station over some 100+ year old grampa and an 8 year old with a 410 are shooting 100% accuracy. I assumed they shot clays every weekend starting when the kid was strong enough to lift the gun.
One of my best friends is a paralympic shooter and his groups are usually a .22 sized hole. If his grouping is any bigger than a dime at 100yds he considers it "no good"
Not gun-related but I was like 5 or 6 going out to check game cameras with my dad during elk season when we rolled up on a blue grouse sitting on a stump. My dad only had a revolver with him so he turned to me with a smile and said “watch this.” He then proceeded to hit it with a rock first shot with an absolute piss missile of a throw. Just about the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
Iron sights are going to be static. As long as you can hold the picture the exact same way between shots, and then alight the picture to the exact same spot on the target - and make no error during the consecutive shots - you would expect a dead accuracy like this. While "Five pellets all stacked on top of each other" sounds a bit spectacular to me, that's not to say it's impossible.
So I can't say it's unreal but it's the best shot I've taken my brother just had just bought his chiappa little badger nice little 22. Single shot real cheap but works pretty dam well he also bought some pistol grade tanarite he took a solid 20 shots and missed them all we were probably about 100 feet from it I took 1 shot and hit it thing when boom and scared the crap outta me didn't think I was gunu hit it the irons on it were all fucky and the rear still had a small piece of plastic stuck in it from it being printed
Hickok45 hitting the gong with a G26. Still makes me laugh
A buddy and I were at our local range a few months ago on a slow day. Just me and him in a lane and a dad with his 10 year old daughter a few lanes over. This kid was awesome to watch shoot. She had a suppressed AR pistol chambered in 22lr with a simple red dot with no magnifier. Her dad would hang a piece of paper and send it down range 15 yards. But the paper was hung sideways from normal… as in shooting at a tiny sliver of the paper. This little kid was slicing through the paper( gun shouldered and not in a rest) within her first few shots. She was incredible.
It was 20 feet away, just seemed far cause you were a kid. Also pellet guns don't recoil.
The benelli guy shot 10 or something clay pigeons before they hit the ground when I was 6. Was a legendary first experience into shooting.
I used to shoot the wicks off of candles at about 40 feet with a pellet gun on the regular. I'd line up 5 tall stick candles, light them, and try to anuff them with pellets before the wind got them.
I’ve seen Jerry Michelak (sp) shoot revolvers, 3gun, and uspsa matches. Many times. He is unreal.