Okay, to make the thread more hunting-oriented, there is another memory of mine:
Headshot from around 50m(55y) with ironsights and wadcutter pellets, this was a Super Luck moment:
What happened was:
In the mountains, I was going over a hill, and suddenly, there were 3 Chukars right under my feet. As soon as they saw my head, they took off flying; two of the smaller ones flew too far down the valley. I thought to myself, "They must be females.".
The third big boy flew across the valley and landed on the other side, right on the peak, presenting his right side to me and watching.
I carefully sat down where I was standing, it was too good an opportunity to let go;
But the hardware had limitations:
Mid-power springer, iron sights, wadcutter, and kinda offhand(elbow on the knee).
So I took a few breaths to normalize my body from the hiking, then brought the rifle to my shoulder, and took aim.
If anything, Diana has the BEST standard front post sight among these rifles; Tall and sharp at the tip. So I brought the sharp tip of the sight about 5cm or 2 inches above the bird's crown to compensate for the drop. I was hoping to get a high shoulder/neck area hit.
I took the shot, and in less than a second, the bird jumped up like 50cm or 20 inches and fell down on the peak of the hill!
" THOPP " was what I heared...
And it rolled down the hill while flapping his wings aggressively, until it reached close to the bottom of the hill, and got stuck behind a very thorny bush.
Turned out the wadcutter just removed the top of its head, only " Half " the diameter of the pellet itself, what a luck!
The blood on the side is the same blood from the head; it just lay down in a way that the blood from its head poured over the side.
The other bird is a male Pee-Yoo Partridge, shot on the incline of the hill I stood on a few minutes ago, and shot the Chukar. (Big one)
. Did bring the citori to hopefully shoot some clays at the giant clay facility here. Few more days left hopefully I make it over there.
