The Ultimate Varmint Shot

[lrgoodger]

Here's a 200 yard shot I made today during sight in at the Hillsdale Michigan egg shoot. A fly landed on my practice target in the upper left corner and I called to my friend Russel Jasmund, "Hey Russel, want to watch me shoot a fly?"

"Sure", he says and moves his scope over to my target. Ray was down at the other end of the firing line, but he heard us and moved his spotting scope over to my target. I fired the first shot at it and in the heat of the challenge, I pulled the shot off nearly an inch to the right. My first sighter shot had hit at 11 o'clock on the thin bulls eye ring a quarter inch high and a bit left. The botched shot was also a quarter inch high but right of the fly.

Russel said, "You didn't even scare him."

I aimed dead on for windage and a quarter inch low and squeezed carefully. Ray said, "I think you got him. I can see stuff on the paper."

I pushed the rifle back in position and looked through the Nightforce 15-55 competition scope. "Yep. That's fly guts", I said. You can see one of his legs stuck to the paper at 1 o'clock from the guts.

"I can't argue with that", said Ray.

That's the same rifle I used to beat the custom rifles at the balloon shoot in Columbus Wisconsin last July and the one I used in May this year to win the factory rifle class at the Midwest Regional Varmint Hunter's Association match (Savage LRPV 8 twist). The thing flat out shoots those Berger 105 hybrids! The next two shots took out the dot on the bulls eye to the right of this one. That was three fly killer shots in a row at 200 yards!

I won factory class with it in the egg shoot today, too.

 

[joshb]

Pretty good shooting, and too funny. A friend and I shot for flies last summer. Smear some honey on a target and wait. We do it at 100 cause we're not that good.

 

[lrgoodger]

Pretty good shooting, and too funny. A friend and I shot for flies last summer. Smear some honey on a target and wait. We do it at 100 cause we're not that good.

I've shot 'em before at 200 yards on my range at home, but there were no witnesses. Calling the shot and making it in front of friends was what made this one so cool. That shot bolstered my ego way more than winning the match!

 

[deepwater]

Jed Clampet did it using his side lock and open sights from the front porch. Even Jethro was impressed, Mr. Drysdale could not see the flies attracted to the bacon grease on the front yard wall towards the street about 100 yards away.

 

[K22]

My buddy, a non hunter, shoots thumb tacks at 200 yards with his bench rest rifle, a 6mm br. and 36x scope. He doesn't hit them all the time but he hits then more often than he misses. I saw him hit four out of six one afternoon and the misses were very close.

 

[6mmToad]

Jed Clampett liked to hit them on the wings as I recall.

 

[lrgoodger]

I have custom bench rest guns that will do it too, but not too many of the factory production guns will. This shot was made with one of the rare few that will. My 12 twist Savage LRPV is even better than this one. That last match I shot with it, it put five in the sighter dot in a .40" group at 200 yards. I won that match too.

My buddy, a non hunter, shoots thumb tacks at 200 yards with his bench rest rifle, a 6mm br. and 36x scope. He doesn't hit them all the time but he hits then more often than he misses. I saw him hit four out of six one afternoon and the misses were very close.

 

[CaptainMal]

A 200 yard fly shot is tough to make. Wind, mirage and obviously, the capabilities of the shooter and rifle all make it a tough shot.

Your shot puts you a "leg up" on everyone else.

 

[nmkid]

8) I did it at 100 yards about 1974. Doubt if I could do it again. Old age has given me a little bit of the shakes!