re: Tell me about the best lucky shot you ever made.

snipe midair with my 10/22

Shot a whitetail doe on the run at about 10 yds in the head with a 12 ga slug. She flipped and we couldn't find the entry wound and after further review it was in the head.

Also, shout another running away in the head at 120 steps with a 12 ga slug.

Both shots, pure luck.

Some incredible tales up in this thread.

Mine's a bobcat with a bow at 40 or so yards, through waste high grass, while standing on the ground (told that tale here already), and my other is, well, let me rephrase......

this guy I know (MANY MANY MANY YEARS AGO, LIKE AT LEAST OVER 15 YEARS), was dove hunting on a sandbar/willow thicket in the red river. A lone blue winged teal flew by. I got no idea how far he really was, but he was so far that the shot was actually talked about before it was taken. They said it was one of those "I'ma take a shot at him, even though he's wwwwayyyy out there. Man, you can't shoot that thing from here. Here watch".

The lead was launched, and the teal (supposedly) fell stone dead. I heard they picked the entire bird, and only found one lead pellet hole through his eyeball.

I landed a bait on top of a nice flounder. When the bait hit the surface, it spooked the flounder, which launched itself out of the water, getting foul hooked in the process.

1. 6 point crosses 50 yds in front of me before daylight and lose him in the cutover. I see him 200 yds away on ridge and think he is goner. He quarters back and circles behind me through a cutover. As he is moving through cutover I notice he will cross a 4 ft wide clearing about 50 yards behind me. I cocked the Marlin and watched him and the clearing simultaneously until he hits the clearing. As soon as I see shoulder in scope I squeeze trigger. Rolled him up.

2. Doe @ 75 yards quartering away free hand with the Marlin. Right in the boiler room.

3. Squirrel on backside of tree and would flip to the other side when i would creep around to shoot. I throw a stick past tree on other side. Squirrel thinks its me. Flips to me side. Gets dropped.

First buck ,12 years old 20 gauge slug,50 yards,stretched out wide open thru swamp,water flying everywhere,dogs on his arse,neck shot. Bloodied face , cut shirt tail and first beer

38 Mod 10 S&W Snub nose. Dark. Light stick at 75 yards racing three guys with AR's. Hit it with my first shot.

I was deer hunting with a buddy long ago and we were sneaking up on some deer on the other side of a rise. When we peered over the top of the terrace the deer were gone but two huge gobblers were walking towards us. My buddy had never shot one so he decides to shot when they are about 15 yards from us. He misses shoots again and misses. We both stand up and the turkeys are running full speed across the open field. When they get to the edge of the woods they are running parallel to us at about 70 yards. I raise my 300 win. Mag flip up the scope cover and proceed to shoot the lead turkey in the head while he was at a full run.
My buddy just looks at me like "are you freaking kidding me".

Not so much lucky but I shot a 350lb boar hog in the arse with a 45-70 one time because that's all I could see in the pine thicket and I watched him yell a squeal and buck like a bronc and take off running. He left a nice blood trail and the pain in his arse eventually slowed him down to where I could shoot him in the head.

IT was hell getting him out of the woods though

Hunted in a long narrow blind with three other hunters. I was the last guy on the left and a huge Mallard flew in straight over the right side of the blind. All three other hunters emptied their three rounds each as the bird is climbing fast. It must be about 150 ft in the air when I can finally make a safe shot. I led him by about 30 ft and fold him like a wet rag on the first shot.