Has anyone killed more that one animal with one shot?

Huntaddict · 2025-01-25T09:30:30-0600

Big game - yes many many times - and by that I mean the animal is dead on the ground within 30 seconds or so after one shot.

With more than 128 big game animals taken over the past 20 years (not bragging and there is a reason why I am saying it) I have had to shoot more than 1 time maybe around 25 times. Usually larger big game animals like elk etc...(again not a brag - more just a ratio for context) - not sure if they always needed it but if they are standing for any period of time, I shoot again.

I have also had maybe 30-40 smaller big game animals, antelope and deer types, fold up dead on the spot after one well placed shot.

I find by gunning up, I have reduced the times I have had to shoot twice. I also find that by ensuring I have the right shot at the right time, I get better results

CRP003 · 2025-01-25T09:43:09-0600

Huntaddict said:
Big game - yes many many times - and by that I mean the animal is dead on the ground within 30 seconds or so after one shot.

With more than 128 big game animals taken over the past 20 years (not bragging and there is a reason why I am saying it) I have had to shoot more than 1 time maybe around 25 times. Usually larger big game animals like elk etc...(again not a brag - more just a ratio for context) - not sure if they always needed it but if they are standing for any period of time, I shoot again.

I have also had maybe 30-40 smaller big game animals, antelope and deer types, fold up dead on the spot after one well placed shot.

I find by gunning up, I have reduced the times I have had to shoot twice. I also find that by ensuring I have the right shot at the right time, I get better results

Thanks for replying , if I'm understanding you correctly you're referring to animals being shot more than once. I'm referring to animals "more than one animal " being killed with one bullet if that makes sense?

memtb · 2025-01-25T09:44:02-0600

Well…..kinda sorta! When hunting cow elk near dark…..I got a "two for one". Though, it did require a second shot on elk #2…..it wasn'tt properly placed. Thankfully, my hunt'n partner hadn't filled his tag yet!

When I first got my rifle in '90, I was fire forming brass with a friend. We were shooting Prairie Dogs, and trying to do doubles. He was taking "FOREVER" to touch of a shot! When he finally fired….I asked "what the hell took him so long"! He said that he was waiting to line up 3. Initially, we could only find 2 and he was beyond disappointed. We finally found #3, a lot farther away than the first 2. I can only surmise, that with the scope power all the way up, it compressed the field of view…..making dog # 3 appear closer to #'s 1 & 2 at the shot!

Those 270 grain Hornady's give great "in line" penetration on Prairie Dogs!

memtb

memtb · 2025-01-25T09:49:25-0600

I could have easily done a "two for one" on two young Mule Deer bucks. I was still hunting in timber and slipped up on two little bucks, one standing right behind the other. They were so perfectly aligned and almost identical …..they looked like an old photo, where the photographer shook when he snapped the shot! memtb

CRP003 · 2025-01-25T10:05:48-0600

On large game it's generally rare to have multiple tags for one species so it would naturally be less common. I have this opportunity about every year where I can shoot 2-10 of the same species and it almost always gives me the opportunity to try a two for one. I just haven't.

memtb · 2025-01-25T10:11:33-0600

I forgot about this one. There were several of us shooting "chucks", and my good friend was shooting his new 257 Roberts AI.

He was never "timid" about loading it "HOT"…..brass rarely lasted more than 2 or 3 firings!

He shot a "chuck" @ around 150 to 200 yrds. At the shot, rick chuck "pieces and parts" went everywhere. I think he was using Nosler Ballistic Tips.

Impressed with the visual, we went to take a "lookie see". When we got there, he had killed 6 or 7 with one shot. A pregnant chuck, soon to give birth. It was not a pretty scene.

If anyone is interested in "gore photos"…..I think that I can find it in my "photo archives"!

memtb

CRP003 · 2025-01-25T10:13:51-0600

memtb said:
I forgot about this one. There were several of us shooting "chucks", and my good friend was shooting his new 257 Roberts AI.

He was never "timid" about loading it "HOT"…..brass rarely lasted more than 2 or 3 firings!

He shot a "chuck" @ around 150 to 200 yrds. At the shot, rick chuck "pieces and parts" went everywhere. I think he was using Nosler Ballistic Tips.

Impressed with the visual, we went to take a "lookie see". When we got there, he had killed 6 or 7 with one shot. A pregnant chuck, soon to give birth. It was not a pretty scene.

If anyone is interested in "gore photos"…..I think that I can find it in my "photo archives"! memtb

I'm good

fseaman.js · 2025-01-25T10:14:04-0600

Only with a bow.

Ground squirrels in a place where firearms not safe or allowed.

sp6x6 · 2025-01-25T10:18:40-0600

I let 2 wolfs line up and tried, but I only had my 6.5 w/eldm.If I had my 338nm I would have done so.

Northkill · 2025-01-25T10:20:55-0600

My daughter did with two antlerless whitetail last year. We were prone in an orchard watching the field when someone pushed two of them out of a nearby woodlot. They ran down below us about 200 yd. From her angle all she could see was the neck of one above a slight rise and over the corn stubble. I could see both deer from my angle 10' away from her, but for her they were perfectly lined up and she only saw one. When her rifle cracked it was quite a sight to see them both just drop like a sack of rocks - both busted through the necks with a 156 Berger out of the Sherman Max...

bigngreen · 2025-01-25T10:28:01-0600

I have on elk and deer when I was younger but I wouldn't today. Used a 45-70 with 520 gr solids, shooting through two elk wasn't really that hard with that and it was consistent, the smaller stuff I shoot now wouldn't be consistent and there just no reason to.

snox801 · 2025-01-25T11:11:45-0600

Yep several years ago I got 4 pigs one shot with my .458 socom about 11 yards.

Also shot two audad this year with one shot. 300blk 101gr hammer hunter first one through the shoulders bang flip the other one ran a bit with a good blood trial.

Huntaddict · 2025-01-25T11:17:01-0600

CRP003 said:
Thanks for replying , if I'm understanding you correctly you're referring to animals shot needing more or less bullets to kill. I'm referring to animals "more than one" being killed with one bullet if that makes sense?

I believe I answered that although your explanation is not clear.

let me try this. 75% of 128 were one shot kills

CRP003 · 2025-01-25T11:20:02-0600

Huntaddict said:
I believe I answered that although your explanation is not clear.

let me try this. 75% of 128 were one shot kills

My apologies.

Has anyone killed more that one animal with one shot?

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