Bird got away with 36.5 NSA

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Too blurry or is it just me. Maybe time to invest in a gopro side shot of tactacam for better quality. 

Shooting over 70 ft lb in a residential area over a house like that is kinda dangerous. Like someone said, lucky you didn't hit the roof. 70 ft lb into that roof and you will need a new repair job. Can't really tell where the slug hit the bird. Maybe just grazed it. If 70 ft lb hit the bird. It would drop like a rock.
 
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Definitely looks like a wing shot to me as well. Looks like you gave the wing a nice little cutout

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I hit a pigeon square in the chest with a 7-8g 177 cal wadcutter from a co2 pistol at 5 yards and it was blown backward several feet crumpled down no movement instant kill. that was about 4 FPE. If you connected any real center mass on body , that bird would be smashed back off the roof. the result says you clipped a couple feathers.
 
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Hey guys, 

No one in the back of the house like i said in the first post. you guys read and disregard everything...😩

and i shot 500 slugs with the same hold over, pretty sure i cannot hit that roof unless i wanted to. 

tune and tested the speed over two chronographs. chronopro and fx portable sonar chono. 36.5gr, 980fps and can go to 1020fps at the muzzle. this gun can push even the 38.5 grains to 1000fps. and 64 grains to 875fps on 180 bars. 



and no it did not hit the wing, it hit close to the wing and hit the body, took all the feathers off its body and the wing. i have a sideshot gopro set up but not on this nightime set up. you can see the bone structure of the wing was not hit since it can flap, but it did take away the feathers both wing and body. no penetration. 




 
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Here are the stills, frame by frame. Just pointing out the wings "bone" structure were not hit. as it is outlined by the red line. It's a body shot. 

Yeah I always check what is behind the shot, if it is deemed unsafe, I dont risk it.

I am thinking due to the rainbow trajectory, the slug did not contact directly on it's nose, but at an angle and it scrapped the feathers off. 



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I've been following this tread with great interest. 👍🏼

Please, confirm or correct me:

(1) So, the bird was hit in the center of the body (cf. the arrow), with a 36-grainer, and flew off?



(2) Then again, I read "it didn't penetrate" — OK, so how did the bird loose all those feathers? Where did the slug go? Why did it not penetrate — with such an overkill of power and projectile?

(Please, I'm fascinated by overkill, so no criticism intended! 😄)



(3) If the bird got clipped somewhere, how is that bird "lucky" — won't it die soon?





Inquiring minds, trying to understand....

I do have a number off fly-offs after the pellet connects with the pigeon.

Are those fly-and-die F&D — or fly-and-live-another-day F&L? ❓



Thanks! 👍🏼

Matthias
 
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