Gentlemen, it would most certainly have been a head shot, but as he stood up, his head was just out of sight behind the ends of the 2x2's used for winter shrink wrapping. He had been using a metal drainage culvert as a subway to get to the field behind me and he was only a couple feet from the entrance. This was the first time I had seen him in weeks although I knew he was still there. Had I waited another minute he'd have been in the culvert, and it wasn't safe to shoot at him at the other end. So, I had a very brief moment to take a safe shot in the right direction, I know I didn't miss, he fell over like he was dead, kicked and then still managed to roll back into the burrow. Had it been a .223 or Hornet or some such, he'd have dropped right there. A lesson learned---That .204 sounds like a winner and thanks for the information, are most of the manufacturers chambering something in this caliber?--------------John