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Topic: Longest one shot kill today
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El Guapo
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posted June 08, 2008 05:02 PM
I've been playing with a .264 Win mag for a while now. I happened to be hunting with it today and had killed a coyote at 320 yards, meanwhile it's partner laid up at a Leica lazered 698 yards. No wind and the gig was pretty much up anyway so I figured "what the hell" I been practicing with this thing to 500 and have the dial set up to 800. So I dialed 700 and sent a 130 Berger VLD. It worked! I'm not sure who was more surprised, me or the coyote. But it is my personal best.
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TA17Rem
Hello, I'm the legendary Tim Anderson, Southern Minneesota Know it all
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posted June 08, 2008 05:11 PM
Cal: Was this shot made useing the kenton dial?? If so congrats. i knew you could do it... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Edit: I'm sure there are gonna be plenty more long shot kills...
[ June 08, 2008, 05:14 PM: Message edited by: TA17Rem ]
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Paul Melching
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posted June 08, 2008 05:26 PM
First I hear about this guy in Wyoming thet has the life everybody envies,then I come to find out he's a real cowboy ,and a sniper. What the ----,making me feel inferior to say the least .lol
Nice shootin Cal.
edited because Gillette is in wyoming not montana
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Okanagan
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posted June 08, 2008 06:15 PM
Wow!
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El Guapo
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posted June 08, 2008 08:10 PM
TA. that was using the Kenton dial, on an 8x32 Burris Signature. I had shot it to 500 on paper. There's probably lots of guys that make those shots all the time, but not me. But come to think of it, I'm sure I haven't tried that distance more than a couple times on coyotes. I have shot that far at paper before, and rocks, and things of that nature. And I have shot some prairie dogs that far and farther, but by "walking" it in to them. But for a single shot with no spotters, its a first.
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Cdog911
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posted June 08, 2008 08:16 PM
D-d-damn!!! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
And I thought my 400-something yard running right to left center punch shot was a doozy.
I am impressed. Good job.
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TA17Rem
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posted June 08, 2008 09:07 PM
Good deal Cal. Like i've always said the Kenton dial is a good tool to have and i'm sure you will take many more at that range...
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Tim Behle
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posted June 09, 2008 04:55 AM
Just be careful Cal. Shooting a coyote at long distance, is not only addictive, it can get real expensive in a hurry!
Great shot!
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tlbradford
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posted June 09, 2008 07:22 AM
C'mon Cal, we're supposed to believe that there was no wind in Wyoming. "No wind" to a Wyoming guy is about a 15mph breeze to the rest of us. That makes it even more impressive.
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Rich Higgins
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posted June 09, 2008 07:46 AM
Cal, I can't even see 698 yards anymore. Heck of a shot.
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Leonard
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posted June 09, 2008 10:34 AM
That's BS Higgins. I know you can see that far. Every coyote we saw in Kansas was that far and getting further as soon as we started a stand. A real valuable talent, by the way. It wouldn't occur to me to scan that far off for coyotes fleeing a stand.
But, Cal. Are you telling us you "bang/flopped" a coyote at that distance with a VLD Berger? That's not even blind luck, or skill, it requires Devine Intervention!
Good hunting. LB
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DAA
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posted June 09, 2008 01:20 PM
"There's probably lots of guys that make those shots all the time..."
No, there ain't.
Very nice shot.
- DAA
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Leonard
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posted June 09, 2008 02:07 PM
What do you mean, Dave? I did it once, myself, so it can't be all that difficult? ![[Smile]](smile.gif) That's once out of numerous WTF attempts......
edit: my Hail Mary was running straight away. I had time to chamber another round and put the gun away when I looked up and noticed my coyote had tripped and fell head over heels; but then he just laid there? Must have broke his neck or something? But in the fifteen minutes it took me to hike out there in the mud, somehow I managed to brain him? Must have been because the mud slowed him down.
Blind friggin' luck, in my case but I'll still brag on it any chance I get. (it was witnessed)
But Cal, 264 Mag. sounds more like an antelope gun than something you would use on coyotes?
Good hunting. LB
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El Guapo
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posted June 09, 2008 07:00 PM
Leonard, I wouldn't call it a bang flop. I'd call it a bang, spin, flop. But he cratered before I could get another round chambered and sent so I guess it was close to a bang flop. I guess the .264 may be a little much gun but it sure is fun. I want to build a .270 Short Mag necked to 6.5 but basically it's not going to be much different velocity wise. But I want to build lots of stuff, and there seems to be a big difference between want to and actually getting it done.
Tim B, I can see the addiction starting. My target range at the house here keeps getting longer and longer. Used to be 300, the 500 and now maybe to a 1000? The gunsmith down the road from me has built a 338 Cheytac. He's shooting a 250 grain bullet 3400 fps he claims. He said I could take it out some day if I wanted to try one at a thousand. I might do it just to say I killed one at a thousand. I don't know, it weighs about 25 pounds and had a 36 in. barrel so I'm not sure how much I care to pack it.
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Cdog911
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posted June 09, 2008 07:16 PM
Cal,
Q was telling me of an experience he had, or some such deal, with a new .375 CheyTac. They may be heavy as hell, but I'd grab that opportunity just so I could say that I did. Those things sound like a real man's toy.
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Randy Roede
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posted June 09, 2008 08:16 PM
Nice shot Cal, that one will be remembered!!!
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Rich Higgins
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posted June 09, 2008 08:20 PM
Four years ago Q toldme to pick out a rock on each of two hillsides. The first one he ranged at 456 yards and centered it with one shot from his 220. The second one he ranged at 928 and centered it with the first shot from his 220.
Impressed me enough to remember the numbers.
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Rich Higgins
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posted June 09, 2008 08:25 PM
Doubled, my bad.
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Leonard
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posted June 09, 2008 09:44 PM
Yeah, I'd remember that, too!
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TRnCO
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posted June 10, 2008 06:33 PM
That is a hellofashot for sure. I've never even tried a shot passed 500 yards on a coyote.
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brad h
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posted June 10, 2008 07:35 PM
Impressive as all hell to say the least!!
Sunday was also our day of the month without wind.
Brad
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browning204
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posted June 13, 2008 05:49 AM
Chit man, thats good!!!
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Bopeye
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posted June 13, 2008 11:31 PM
That's an awesome shot Cal. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
When I lived in Gillette as a kid, I don't remember a day when the wind didn't blow. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
I'd have to get on the interstate to be able to see anything that far around here.
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