RE: anyone ever hit a bird??
When I was a kid, I was watching Riley Wooten practice flying controlline combat under the lights at our CL field. A pigeon dove through the circle after the plane and Riley took a cut at him and missed. The bird came through again, and Riley missed again. The third time, Riley centerpunched him with a howling Fox 36X. It looked like someone lit a bomb under that pigeon....Let that be a lesson in not pushing one's luck.