Thread: The Shots of which your most Proud

One of the other threads reminded me that in most peoples hunting life there will be shots (either rifle or camera) which when you think back on them that you are trully proud of.
Typically you don't end up with any great head or trophy and you can almost guarantee that no one saw you do it, but a memory is still strong.

The two that slip into my mind are these:-
1) I'm 13 yrs old, out at dusk with the old farm single shot open sight .22, and I spot a rabbit. The ground's too open to seek in and the rabbit's already toey. So bugger it, I decided to take the shot, Its a long way but make a best guess I hold over a fair bit take the shot. Rabbit does the classic heart shot leap and I have him. I pace it out as 123 paces so it would have been 110m or so. i was proud as punch taking that rabbit back to the house.

2) Some years later. . . I'm out looking for Fallow. Out in the marram grass I spot a buck way down in the gully. First shot clean miss. He takes off and now there are two bucks running. Two more shots ring out each dropping one of those bouncing targets. Distance was about 400m. Best running shots I've ever done or probably will do.

So what shooting memories are you most proud of?