What is the best shot you have ever made? Here is mine. Coyote chasing/trailing a yearling. Not a full run but not walking either. About 20 yards. I even had a witness with me to make it all the better. He still tells everyone that I could shoot the hat off their head at 50 yards with my long bow.

I don't mind shooting at coyotes running either, but I ain't as good as you! Great shot!

I got two good shots, can't tell which is favorite.

I once hit a rabbit that was fully stretched out about 2 feet off the ground at full speed, right in front of the guys standing by the truck still loading up their shotguns. Wowed us all! (of course, then I immediately proceeded to shoot between the ears on a sitting bunny at 5 yards. Again, right in front of them)

The other shot happened when I pulled up to first MOJAM to see WillMO and Joe Mattingly at the range shooting hanging skeets. Got out with my bow just as WillMO knocked the middle circle out of one, leaving the rim encircling his arrow. I said I'll finish breaking it for you and shot my arrow right into the hole next to his, without breaking it. Put my bow back in the truck...

nice shooting

The most memorable for me was a 35 paces shot on a bull moose.I put a zwickey through his heart using a 65lb Martin Vision lbow..and a 2219 shaft. It was witnessed by my two compound shooting partners and i have a pic if i can post it. Sandy

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Shot a running doe fully stretched out on a run through the heart. Bighorn RamHunter Longbow, 75#@27" and 66"long. That was back in the late 80's. Just previous though about 45min. earlier I missed a nice buck quartering away at about 18yds, he was running a scrape line I was hunting. This was just after Holloween as I recall and couldn't believe I missed the buck hence me shooting the doe.

My best shots were both luck based Hail Mary's.

A squirrel at 35 and a turkey at 42.

Shooting with some of the top shooters in the country in my group at the trad nationals a few years ago........a 28 yd rat that was actual size.

Thank you! I hate deer eating coyotes! I also made a similar shot on a yote 10 years ago. Mine was a compound kill at 42 yards, a 40 pound female yote was trailing a fawn that had come through 15 minutes earlier. That coyote was trotting perpendicular to me and was going to cross a small shooting lane for my only chance, heart shot her! A great feeling. Now I need to kill one with my recurve!

this probably doesn't count to some cause when I did this I shot a 48" 80# Hoyt pro vantage with fingers & 1 sight pin but roughly 33 years ago while useing my bow during muzzle loader season & deer driving with about a dozen guys carrying guns I killed 3 deer all on the run all great shoots & out did the gun hunters that day. my feet didn't touch the ground for days. & the story still comes up from time to time when reminiscing old times

Nice Shot JimBob.

My best shots: grouse at 45 yards, squirrel at 25 yards, coke bottle tossed in the air at 30 yards,....got lucky on each of 'em, luck all the way,...it would take me another 500 arrows to do them again and even then the outcome would be in doubt. Main goal = have fun!

hey jimbod thats a shot to be proud of for sure

Yep. raccoons are hated by most, Nasty, mean, disease carriers.

But they taste good.

I'll never forget the first antelope I shot. Jumped straight up in the air as I watched arrow go through and break in half when he jumped. Its was totally incredible. Fell down right at the spot of the jump.

I made a lot of incredible shots but sad to say also some other I wish I could have back.

Shots on turkeys, deer and other birds. Ground hog at 60 yards with a bow I just received and strung up and a wooden arrow.

A mountain lion I shot so fast the guide said are you going to shoot or what. I said the lions dead just wait. No shoot again. Ok same hole. lion was falling and he says shoot again coming down on my dogs. I said lions dead and falling and he says no shoot again. Ok cost me 3 holes to have sowed up.LOL

Caribou my first shot was in his balls. Yup between his legs and he laid down. I worked around him and got down wind as he was looking at me was going to shoot in his chest and so I thought? Bounced the arrow off his rack and that woke him up and he charged me. I stood my ground and drew down as he got to me he veered off and I shot him in his heart. What a rush. We rolled him over and saw that the arrow went right down his pecker and into stomach but not into guts. No wonder why he laid right down.LOL

I was only archer in camp that shot a bull and it was bigger than all the gun guys boos.

I could literally go on and on,seriously from 8 yo to 65 all these years and kills. And the good and the bad and the indifferent shots and issues.

When I was 8 yo I got me a chicken, the neighbors chicken I shot in the butt as he flew away with my arrow. Neighbor found and brought over to my mother to see and ask about. They would not give to me to eat. She said wait till your father comes in from the shop he will deal with this. Bow taken off me I got for Christmas and he broke it in half. He bought me another later though to replace it.

Deer I found the next day that had i gone a little farther that night I would have found the animal he was right there early on I was just learning. I mis judged the shots and the arrow was still in animal that plugged up the hole. Yottes ate overnight a few of them like that but they were good shots too it killed the animal.

First coon I shot he was holding onto a skinny tree and I said there he is and as I drew down and hit him in chest I cut one of his paws off. I had to look on ground for the paw at the tree so I could get it sowed back on by taxi. I have him mounted ona log and look at his paw offten and talk to him as I say sorry I mounted you but I had your paw put back on so you remind me.

I talk to all my mounts. LOL

1rst Buck put me through hell and back and found it on neighbors lawn. They saw me walking across lawn to get it. I spied it with binos laying there. They weren't too happy with me the wife gave me the dickens. I have young children and your shooting around this house. Husband said I hate these deer, kill them all they are eating my flowers and shrubs. She didn't want them killed. He told me don't ever pick up a deer off lawn again so she see's it. I can't deal with her either Glenn. Ok then I got it. Now what she said to me made me real angry and she caused me to shoot as many as I could kill there then and I would sneak deer out from her seeing me. I wanted to just drive up like i owned the place and load up the deer. No i had to drag through woods and screw up bush for a couple days to calm down then pull truck around corner to load up deer. Extra work.LOL

Crazy stuff shooting fish and turtles too. LOL

I have always been a shooter and wanted to kill things it was just my nature from a pup to retirement. LOL

I look back and think all this and that and say if the arrow don't fly the critter don't die. I have tried to live by that.LOL

Hey! I like my Coon

Running rabbit through the heart at 15 yards, starling through the heart 20 yards, knocked all the feather off a starling's tail at 35 paces, grazed a squirrel from my tree stand at 33 paces. All lucky shots.

Shot a chipmunk running at 20yrds

I have a few, the ones that come to mind right now are; Running cottontail at around 50 yards (have shot many running but not this far), running Jack rabbit at around 40 yards (have shot many but this is farest), running Deer at about 18 yards, running Alaskan Brown Bear between 3 - 10 yards, Pharmigan out of the air, Pigeon out of the air

Boss at work took me bear hunting back in 1974.We would be the first to hunt with bow and arrow and had to pass a test.So every day after work i'm in the back yard shooting for 6 or 8 months.On the way to Canada the boss said he did not have much time to practice and i would have to shoot the test first. The test was a X on a box my first arrow was dead center in the X at around 20 yds.The guide didn't believe it and said shoot again and the next arrow went inside the first arrow.Guide laugh and went into the cabin and my boss didn't have to shoot.My best shot was two days later on a P+Y bear shaking like a leaf.

A few years ago we had a 100 yard 50/50 shot at a moose at one of our traditional shoots. It was $1 for three shots. After everyone had run out of $$$ my buddy and I went to pull arrows and determine the winner. There were two arrows left and I was about to pull one and my buddy said "Hold it. We better measure these, they are both pretty close to center." So I stopped and let him measure them. He said "This one is the winner." I smiled at him and said "It don't matter Bud. They're both mine!"He than called me a rude name and we both near fell over laughing.

13 years old, green Pearson recurve, pigeon on top of a telephone pole at 50 yards...head shot with a rubber blunt. 30 years old...grouse on a limb in a huge fir tree on the edge of a 200 ' cliff, 60# Super Diablo, 40 yds, Bear razor head, dead center...grouse and arrow fell at the base of the tree....he tasted good! Richard

I once shot a fly off a ducks back at 97 yards. Wait...or was it a duck off of a fly...no. Now I forget.

Dove at 15-20 yards

By far the best shot I ever made was a 3d course me and another guy set up. I like to make em challenging. Had to stop cause I got tired of all the whining but we set a upright bear way out there. Like 60 yards thru the woods. Could bearly even see it. Pun intended. I shot and somehow the arrow missed limbs and trees and I hit the center of the ten ring. We laughed about that all the way around the course.

My best shot was on a Pope and Young caribou in 1990 at 65 yards, right through the heart. He took 2 steps and fell over.

big lizard in Superstition Mountains on a survival trip. about 15 yards, with the lizard on the cottonwood trunk about 10 feet up. I felt elated.

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Judo right through the braincase of a garden-raider at about 20-25 as he flushed. Killed him right out of the air about 6’ from where he had been perched.

So... I was about 12 when I watched a TV show and I think it was Pete Shepley (PSE) shooting ducks on the fly... so I set myself on a mission to kill a bird with my bow. I terrorized all the birds in my yard all summer. Even made special tips out of wire... No luck.

My grandparents came to visit and I was gonna shoot my bow for my grandparents. So I got out two hay bales... and I come bee-boppin' out of the house with my bow... and I see a sparrow land in a tree with our empty pasture as the backdrop. He's on a limb and he's PERFECTLY silhouetted. My grandmother is standing right there and sees what's about to happen. "Oh Allan - don't shoot that little bird." I quickly knock an arrow, I draw, my 20 yard pin settles... I released... POOF!!!! I literally threw my bow to the ground and had to race our mama-cat for it as he came falling out of the tree.

Somewhere in a scrap book I have a picture of me an that bird. It looks like I'm holding a house key he's so small. My grandmother is still around... and every once in a while I bring that story up... usually resulting in a mean look from her. : )

I've made some long shots, and a close one through the chest of a running rabbit; but the one I am most proud of was hitting a hair I was looking at on a buck in 1992. It was only about 9 steps away and I was shooting a lemonwood bow from the 1940's. That hair was sticking out away from his side....he probably just brushed against a sapling or something.

LoL mine was in bear camp about 15 yrs back ther was a two foot beach ball someone hung in a tree. A bunch of guy using compounds trying to hit it not knowing the range they were missing it all big time on numerous shots I was sitting watching them I figured I could do that bad. I was guessing it was about 75 yds grabbed my widow with a snuffer drew shot and centered it. They were well you know. They ranged it later at 85 yds. Every dog has his day

35 yard downhill shot on an Elk.

My best was a couple season back when I first received my Freeman Longbow. I had a decent group of hogs moving down a creek drain at a pretty rapid rate, Being on the top side of the creek I ran ahead of them where I was hoping they would come out, I missed the exit point and they came up a little further down the creek than intended, I focused on the lead sow and let it rip. To my surprise the arrow disappeared in her side just behind the shoulder. In about 60 yards she crashed. Shot was somewhere between 25-30 yards. I guessed her at 250, my buddies said easy 300, Didn't really matter. I was super excited to see the arrow sticking so far out the back side.

-Bones

Best shot in front of witnesses was an orange golfball that I threw hard and high and clipped it with a Howard Hill arrows shot from an 89 pound Howard hill Big 5. I have never missed an orange golf ball self thrown. From pass shooting ducks to the 80 yard pheasant to the long shots at flying pheasants, they were all just pure luck. The flying pheasants and ducks on the rise at less than 30 yards I claim those and not dumb luck. My favorite game shot was a flying wood cock, the arrow got him about 25 yards out. I got three that day. I had to mount that one, he hangs in my bow room.

Shot a male Ruby Throat hummingbird once, clean shot right thru the heart. Dang thing was almost out of range, maybe 100 yds or so and perched on the back of a Canada goose heading due south. I could hardly make out the outline of him as it was 11:30 at nite and the flashlight I had taped onto my recurve was almost dead. Had to use the cross triangular star method to find the little bugger, didn’t leave much of a blood trail. Good eatin though.

I have shot a number of doves, either on the ground or nearly on the ground. Pass hooting doves for me is so far a total zero. I have since gone to sling shots for doves. The problem is now, I cannot tell how far I miss, because I cannot see the bearings fly out of new slingshot. I shot at at least ten last night while I was deer hunting, missed everyone as they flew over. I don't take the deer hunting serious until an hour or so before sunset in afternoons, so I packed along a slingshot. Then had a small eight point buck come out when I got to the edge of the woods when heading out. I refuse to shoot any deer more than 15 minutes after sunset.

I shot a pingpong ball out of the air with a rubber band at youth group one night. From that moment on I was the cool old man at church.

That and I pinned a running mouse up against the wall in our barn. Pure luck. But my brother and his friend were amazed

Not a killing shot but one I remember even though it was 58 years ago. Shot at a rabbit running wide open about 20 yards. Missed the rabbit. The Arrow went right under his belly and stuck in a log that he was running next to. His hind legs hit the arrow and tripped him up. Bet he did summer sauces for 10 yards. Got up. shook his head then walked off. Me and my buddy was laughing so hard I didn't even shoot again.

Not a killing shot but one I remember even though it was 58 years ago. Shot at a rabbit running wide open about 20 yards. Missed the rabbit. The Arrow went right under his belly and stuck in a log that he was running next to. His hind legs hit the arrow and tripped him up. Bet he did summer sauces for 10 yards. Got up. shook his head then walked off. Me and my buddy was laughing so hard I didn't even shoot again.

Mine best was a fox trotting thru an opening at about 20 yards, just a swing draw with my longbow, took him thru the longs. Just lucky it just happened really fast.

Oh, one more. Brushed a wiffle golf ball with a fletching from 65. With my son watching.

My best shot ever with a bow was a Pole and young antelope at 66 yards (with compound bow) I hunt this one goat for a full week before finally getting his patteri down building a rock wall blind because there was literally zero blind material around. I have him at 19 yards but when I drew he saw me and bolted like they do. He stopped and looked back at what I guessed was 65 yards I drew let fly and double lunged. I still can remember watching him take off so fast then tumble head over heels dead. I eaaised my arms up fell to my knees and just screamed. It was an amazing hunt I will never forget. At the time he was number 39 for P@Y Oregon

my best was in between 2 compound arrows in the yellow at 20yds.

Made som good one over the years but, probably best/worst was a squirrel. I stalke up to a about 18 yards and released my broadhead tipped arrow. Squirrel went crazy thrashing thought I had him for sure. A few moneys later he goes running up a tree with nothing but a bloody nub where his tail once was. I had cut it clean off. Could not have done that again for 1000 bucks.

I was about 13 years old and at that time was shooting one of those semi transparent greenish longbows - no nocking point on the string of course. My buddy had a Daisy BB gun.

We were at the local dump about to start our usual mouse hunting when I spotted a small bird in a garbage pile more than 60 yards away. Just for the heck of it I said to my friend "watch this".

I raised my bow to the sky and let my cheap wooden target arrow fly.

It made a pronounced arc in the sky and landed with a puff of feathers.

I always felt bad about shooting that innocent bird that I didn't eat, but I never thought that I would make the shot!

I've made a lot of good/lucky shots on running game....rabbits, deer, caribou but probably the best shot I ever made was on a mouse running along the top of the wall in my brother in-law's cabin. I was so intent on the mouse I didn't even see the framed picture I almost hit.

I don't know about the best, but the most satisfying shot I ever made was probably with my first bow that my dad bought me. It was a fiberglass 45# bear. I was 12 or 13 at the time. Dad always made sure I had bales in the back yard (we lived in a small town).

There had always been a pipe that stuck up out of the ground on the corner of the property line between our yard and the neighbors yard. The pipe always had an upside down soup can on it.

One day I was going out to shoot and my brother, who is three years older than me, was headed out the door at the same time. Always a smart a$$ about things, he said, lets see you hit that soup can. We were on our front steps. The pipe with the can was probably about 20 yards away. Lo and behold, if I didn't hit that soup can on the first shot. I don't remember if I was surprised, or not, but I sure didn't act surprised. And it shut my brother up. That was a good day!

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