"Best" shot is a small group of men in my case. Best rifle and pistol shot could have been an exhibition shooter but he was just very good with a shotgun. With a pistol, rifle with iron sights or even a scope he was precise to say the least. Watched him put five shots into the end of a coke can off hand at 100 yards, using iron sights, as fast as he could shoot with a Colt Woodsman .22. Then shoot another can at 200 yards off hand with his Winchester model 70 .300 H&H just a fast as he could. Open sights were nothing to him. He said he thought scopes were bad for shooting as shooters relied on magnification to offset lack of ability to aim. Then again he had the ability to tell the difference and make the difference.
Best clay target shooter was a many time All American Skeet shooter. He was great at Skeet or Trap. He could embarrass you from the hip. Never saw him hunt.
Best quail hunter I ever saw was my uncle. With a cheap Crescent double he could take doubles on every covey flush. Often he would take three birds with two shot. Take a pair with the first barrel and a single with the second. He was a quail killing machine, with cat like reflexes, trapped in a body which became hobbled by a boyhood case of Polio, Rheumatic fever and arthritis. Best dove shooter might have been my father. Never got to hunt with him until he was well into his 80's. Last time he shot 15 dove with 23 shells using a 16 gauge Fox AE I lent him at age 90. Still have the last two shell from that box.
I know there have been some other extremely good shots over the years. I'm decent but not in their league. In fact I wonder if they enjoy it as much as I do since it seem to come so effortlessly.
