whos got the best

[charlie cleveland]

whos got the best long range parker shotgun out there.some people used to brag how far there shotgun would bring down game.i would like to hear how far your gun has brought down game at some unbelievable range. my parker 8 ga has killed a deer at 50 steps with 00 buck.what your bragging rights . all stories will be took seriouly. ha... charlie

[Harry Collins]

Charlie,

Most every thing I shoot is within about 40 yards. The longest shot I ever made was on a goose with a Winchester riot gun with an 18" barrel. It was the first year of steel shot and I had nothing of my own that I could shoot it through except the behind the bedroom door gun. The Canada was a single and I knew I would only be educating one bird so I swung ahead about a school bus and a half and let the "T" shot fly. I was putting the gun down when the bird fell out of the sky. 70 yards to the pick up point. That, like shootng a running groundhog in the ear at 150 yards with a .270, was just blind luck.

Harry

[Richard Flanders]

I'd have to say that my 70 yd kill shot on a Utah rooster with a 12ga 26" cyl bbl and light 1145fps target load of 7-1/2's is my best to date. One pellet in the body no less. The guide called the range. Trigg is my witness. None of us could believe it. The bird landed and ran under a bush and died. Can't imagine I'll top that one anytime soon.

[Ed Blake]

Maybe the question should be, "Who has the luckiest shooting Parker out there?"

[scott kittredge]

whos got the best long range parker shotgun out there.some people used to brag how far there shotgun would bring down game.i would like to hear how far your gun has brought down game at some unbelievable range. my parker 8 ga has killed a deer at 50 steps with 00 buck.what your bragging rights . all stories will be took seriouly. ha... charlie

well luck or skill ? killed a goose at 65yds crossing with my parker 10 NH 30 inch with 1 3/8 bismuth BB and the next day did it again at 68 yds with same.:shock:( i do have a witness and he will swear to it, wright Pete?)

[Dean Romig]

Would a stone-dead ruffed grouse at 45 yds. (low-house station 6) with a skeet choked 28 gauge qualify?

[E Robert Fabian]

Three years ago last day of my Goose season in my scull boat, floated in on a flock of ice bound geese in a triangular cove. I sculled the edge of the ice not being able to find a way at them. I ran the boat up on the ice at the best angle to the tree lines hoping for the best and sat up in the boat. the geese lit off from the left bow at about 150yrds and headed down the tree line to my right, I hesitated to shoot because of the distance but decided last chance of the year and threw a exaggerated lead on a bird on the outside of the flock and the mighty ten folded the bird dead in the air, what to do with the second barrel, the birds because of the tree line couldn't gain any distance on me and touched of the left barrel. The second bird came down after a bit with a broken wing which made for a hour long hunt in four mill waders but I got him in the end. The first bird had to be in the seventy yard range after post holing through the ice in two feet of water to retrieve it.

[Pete Lester]

well luck or skill ? killed a goose at 65yds crossing with my parker 10 NH 30 inch with 1 3/8 bismuth BB and the next day did it again at 68 yds with same.:shock:( i do have a witness and he will swear to it, right Pete?)

Bragging is one thing, exagerating is another :nono:, those two kills were only 64 and 67 yards :rotf:

[scott kittredge]

Bragging is one thing, exagerating is another :nono:, those two kills were only 64 and 67 yards :rotf:

thats a good one!:cheers:

[Fred Lowe]

Not a long shot but....lucky??!

We were hunting pheasants in the Bighorn basin of Wyoming. An area that had some nice Whitetail bucks. I'd shot a rooster that sailed onto private ground. As my dog retrieved, my brother yelled that his dog was getting birdy. I hightailed it back into the action. Moments later my dog went on point and a rooster came up, hard to the right. I swung and pulled...and it blew into a "thousand" pieces.

I'd slipped in a slug that was intended for one of those Whitetails. *#$&!!:banghead:

[Fred Preston]

Several years ago I was shooting a few clay birds out of my little string pull trap in back of the garage down the hill toward the road nearly 300 yards away. I was using 7&1/2 AAs. My wife came charging up the drive and gave me "what for" for having sprinkled her while she was getting the mail. I have never shot targets in that direction again.

[Dean Romig]

Amazin' what gets them wimmen riled up.... :shock:

[Dave Fuller]

My 3- 1/2" 10ga belches out enough extra pellets to make me a better shot.... I just can't carry it more than 100 yards without stopping to rest.

[Austin W Hogan]

Around 1975 my friend Jack Brookman, his father Jim Brookman and a few others were hunting deer in "single ball or slug country" in northern Schoharie county NY. We stopped for a break around 10 AM along a small stream, with a pasture to the north. Jack spotted a deer, with its antlers bright in the sun at the top of the hill to the north, about 200 yards away. Jack fired one shot from a single barrel 12, and the deer dropped without a step. We hauled the deer out ,and skinned it that evening. We never found an entrance or exit wound.

Best. Austin

[Dean Romig]

:shock:

[scott kittredge]

Would a stone-dead ruffed grouse at 45 yds. (low-house station 6) with a skeet choked 28 gauge qualify?

hit any grouse would count, never mind at 45 yds :bowdown:

[Phillip Carr]

Austin,
Was the deer flagging and going directly away from him when he shot???:rotf:

[Francis Morin]

A member of our Busted Flush deer camp shot a 6 point buck running away up a rise with the white flag of surrender raised- He was using his M71 in .348 Win with 250 grain Silvertip loads from about the 1948 era- a inheritance from his family- fine lever rifle-

The deer collapsed and was bled out at a measured 133 paces uphill from the ejected shell casing found in the footprints he left in the snow- the Silvertip went "Uppa Da Fundament", ripped open the vitals and the lungs, and exited at the white patch of the deceased deer's throat- a hole about the size of a tennis ball- When we slit open the diaphragm, the innards looked like red jello-

He has taken two trophy Bull Elk with that same unscoped rifle and the older 250 grain Silvertip bullets- one in MT. and one in Idaho- 75 yard (est'd) shots- aim point just behind the animal's facing shoulder- aka- "Da Boiler Room" and both critters dropped in their tracks, the exit side of the deceased elk(s) had holes about grapefruit size.

I would not be hesitant to use the .348 Win, for black bear or even Kodiaks, but I might prefer 300 grain bullets (A-square or Barnes) but Boy Howdy- around here factory ammo for that great stopper is hard to come by--:crying::crying::crying: