Author Topic: 450yards, one arm left handed (Read 8684 times)

boneaddict · « **on:** February 13, 2009, 08:18:57 AM »

Great way to start the moning. I've bee telling you guys where the coyotes are, but no one seems to be shooting them. Drinking coffee with the Mrs. and she spotted her yearly yote. I grabbed the first gun out of the gun safe and the first bullet. COOL a match. He was at 50 yards with my neighbors new house behind him, then 100 yards with my neighbors house nehind him. Then behind my birch tree. CRAP. I waited and waited for him to clear. He was going to be at least 400 before I could see him again. I was standing on my fron porch leaning against the house shooting one armed and left handed. I waited and waited and was beginning to freeze, I let the gun down and of course then he came. He stopped at 450 yards broadside. I sent 150 frain Hornady (30-06) his way. Nailed him. He spun about three times then headed around the hill. We decided to gear up and go take a look. Rose spotted him laying there.

boneaddict · « **Reply #1 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:19:34 AM »

boneaddict · « **Reply #2 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:20:38 AM »

not quite as clean exiting

WAPITIHUNTER · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:21:40 AM »

Nice shooting there Bone. Always a good thing to rid the woods of them critters.

luvtohnt · « **Reply #4 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:21:59 AM »

Nice shootin!!

Brandon

ivarhusa · « **Reply #5 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:22:28 AM »

Good shooting. Glad to see its just your arm in the sling...

PacificNWhunter · « **Reply #6 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:24:16 AM »

Nice Bone!

boneaddict · « **Reply #7 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:28:16 AM »

I always loved the line in the movie Quigley Down Under where he shoots the guy with his pistol, just because I said I like the rifle better, it didn't mean I didn't know how to shoot a pistol....or something like that. Just because I like my bow, it doesn't mean I don't know how to use a rifle. L"OL I don't know how you left handed guys do it though.

Thanks guys!

Red Dawg · « **Reply #8 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:29:00 AM »

good shootin bone, keep them dam dogs away from my grandmas house

GoldTip · « **Reply #9 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:30:10 AM »

Good shootin Bone. Congrats.

Red Dawg · « **Reply #10 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:33:05 AM »

ya you have got to be the luckiest sob on the planet, there is know way I could shoot anything left handed. I have tried and it did not turn out good at all, I think i was like 20 yards off or something like that.

WAPITIHUNTER · « **Reply #11 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:34:28 AM »

Quote from: boneaddict on February 13, 2009, 08:28:16 AM

I always loved the line in the movie Quigley Down Under where he shoots the guy with his pistol, just because I said I like the rifle better, it didn't mean I didn't know how to shoot a pistol....or something like that. Just because I like my bow, it doesn't mean I don't know how to use a rifle. L"OL I don't know how you left handed guys do it though.
Thanks guys!

You are definately a man of many talents. There are some that are good at whatever they lay there hands on, I think you fit the bill on that one.

boneaddict · « **Reply #12 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:36:16 AM »

I gave Slenk all winter to kill that *censored*. Hes walked by the last three mornings (tracks in snow) when I wasn't around to see him. That will teach him, sometimes I am off during the week. LOL Yeah, that coyote wasn't ver big in that 7x Leupold.
Thanks Wapiti. I had a GREAT coach.

BLKBEARKLR · « **Reply #13 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:38:04 AM »

Bone

After reading your message and seeing the exit hole, i am going to have to tell you that shooting a 30-06 with a 150 grain hornady with the trajectory and the angualtion of the exit hole that it was not a 450 yard shot, now I might give you 448-449 yards but not a tru 450 yards..

Nice shooting....

Joe

boneaddict · « **Reply #14 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:49:00 AM »

I had about an 18 inch drop on that bullet. I'll have to check the ballistic tables. I'm just glad the first bullet I grabbed was a 150 instead of a 180, or a 25-06 for that matter.

tlbradford · « **Reply #15 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:55:10 AM »

Quote from: boneaddict on February 13, 2009, 08:49:00 AM

I had about an 18 inch drop on that bullet. I'll have to check the ballistic tables. I'm just glad the first bullet I grabbed was a 150 instead of a 180, or a 25-06 for that matter.

Yeah, grabbing a gun and bullet that matched right off the bat was the most impressive part of the story. You even center punched him, very nice work.

Wile E. Hunter · « **Reply #16 on:** February 13, 2009, 09:22:23 AM »

I've shot over 100 coyotes left handed. I don't see what's the big deal.

Michelle_Nelson · « **Reply #17 on:** February 13, 2009, 11:21:28 AM »

Nice Shot! I tried to get out for a few hours last night and try calling in a coyote. Ended up getting stuck in the snow on a road I knew better than to go down in snow.

Bone what did you do to your arm?

mossback91 · « **Reply #18 on:** February 13, 2009, 11:24:52 AM »

Bone I coulda done that with two broken arms!! and a 17hmr!!

Michelle_Nelson · « **Reply #19 on:** February 13, 2009, 11:32:54 AM »

Quote from: mossback91 on February 13, 2009, 11:24:52 AM

Bone I coulda done that with two broken arms!! and a 17hmr!!

Yeah if you handed the rifle to your girl friend to shoot.

Wile E. Hunter · « **Reply #20 on:** February 13, 2009, 11:43:21 AM »

In all seriousness, that's a very nice shot. They're not that big of a target to start with, and at 450 they tend to get tiny. Shooting from the side you're not used to is tough. One handed tougher. I can shoot well from either side, but the trigger control just isn't as good. All in all, good shot!

DOUBLELUNG · « **Reply #21 on:** February 13, 2009, 01:00:48 PM »

Quote from: boneaddict on February 13, 2009, 08:28:16 AM

I always loved the line in the movie Quigley Down Under where he shoots the guy with his pistol, just because I said I like the rifle better, it didn't mean I didn't know how to shoot a pistol....or something like that. Just because I like my bow, it doesn't mean I don't know how to use a rifle. L"OL I don't know how you left handed guys do it though.
Thanks guys!

Quigley tells the dying guy "I never said I couldn't use a pistol. I said I didn't have any use for them". Classic!

Idabooner · « **Reply #22 on:** February 13, 2009, 02:13:55 PM »

Quote from: boneaddict on February 13, 2009, 08:28:16 AM

L"OL I don't know how you left handed guys do it though.
Thanks guys!

Well no problem, I matched that load to that rifle shooting left handed, I would expect you to hit him. LOL.

Of course I was using 2 hands and a sand bag.
NICE SHOOTIN DOUG.

Skyvalhunter · « **Reply #23 on:** February 13, 2009, 02:41:15 PM »

Just what have you been teaching him Ida!!!

Gutpile · « **Reply #24 on:** February 13, 2009, 05:35:32 PM »

Nice!! I had to shoot one one time from my left shoulder. Not as easy as you'd thing. Mine was only about 40 yards though and the entry looked like that exit, had the B-tip explode on the shoulder.

Idabooner · « **Reply #25 on:** February 13, 2009, 05:52:00 PM »

I was raised on a dry land ranch that had lots of chipmonks, money was very tight those days. When I was about 8 years old somebody gave us an old 22 single shot western field rifle. Dad made a deal with me that if I got him 40 chipmonk tails he would buy me another box of shells. I learned to shoot straight, I would only take 3 bullets with me and hunt all day. I didn't shoot unless it was a for sure kill, when I lost the bolt to that rifle up on the side of Gardner peak the year I was a Junior I had accumulated a couple boxes of Ammunition. That was with open sights. That's how I learned to shoot, never learned to throw lead. I wasn't that tight with my kids but I did encourage them to hit what they shot at.

BC CHASER · « **Reply #26 on:** February 13, 2009, 06:08:51 PM »

Were you wearing your camo when you shot him?

firecrotch · « **Reply #27 on:** February 13, 2009, 07:47:36 PM »

hell of a shot, im left handed and tried shooting right handed on a coyote last year because i had took a baseball to the eye in practice and ended up getting scoped in the right eye. that kind of ended the day hunting, i couldnt see out of both eyes...

boneaddict · « **Reply #28 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:04:37 PM »

I was in my shorts. LOL Little frosty to recover the kill and makes for better field photos.

I probably would have missed shooting with my right as I probably wouldn't have been concentrating as much

Skyvalhunter · « **Reply #29 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:35:07 PM »

I bet those were the good days Ida!! Sounds like my Uncle and you growing up were alot alike. He was from Texas and when they went out hunting squirrels and came back with less squirrels than the bullets they were given they had to account for it. Definately think there is something to be said for open sight shooting as you have to be more sure of your shot and better technique. I can imagine back then the bucks were all over up the Twisp River drainage back then.

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