Mine lands squarely in the lucky shot category. In the 60's, in Myrtle Creek, Oregon when I was about eight years old. After BB gun experience since I was four, I had recently graduated to my very own Ithaca M49 lever action single shot .22. After plenty of safety training with my Dad and target practice, my Mom would drive me out to a spot in the woods, and I'd hike and shoot several miles back home. I pretty much killed more ground squirrels than the plague back then. Once walking an old logging road, next to a creek in the bottom of a steep canyon that had been clear-cut some years before, I spied a lone crow, in the top of a tall snag, at the peak of the tall ridge overlooking the canyon. It was a looong way away, steeply uphill, but I figured what the heck. I raised the front sight in my aim, far above the rear sight notch, aimed as hard as I knew how, and fired. After a moment of "oh well", the bird dropped straight down dead. I couldn't believe it! I had to hike up there to see if I really hit it. It was steep and it took me most of the morning to get up there, but there it was at the base of the snag. It was larger than I expected a crow to be. I stopped at that same spot several times and pondered at length at how far that shot really was. I eventually resorted to topo maps, protractors and such. My best honest estimate after much deliberation was certainly well over 400 yards. Possibly over 500. I had no business shooting that far! However I'm sure proud of that lucky shot. In all the years of golf I played, one shot stood out, a 6-iron on an uphill fairway lie. The sweetest most effortless hit, far more distance than I was used to. That sudden flood of euphoria brought back that same feeling from the shot I made when I was eight years old. Someday I'll go back to Oregon, take my rangefinder, and see if I can find that same spot, and something of similar distance to where that snag was. I still have a few years left in me to find out for sure. Of all the shooting and hunting I've done over the years, that shot was the most memorable.
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