Long shot story:
My brother and I were teens. I was 15 and he was 13. We were out with our air rifles. Mine was a Pumpmaster (smoothbore, but I didn't know it) and his was a Powermaster. (rifled) He was a better saver so he got the better gun, complete with one of those garbage Tasco 4x15 scopes they packaged with them in the 80s. He has awful vision, only correctable to 20/40 or something. He's worn glasses since infancy, so the scope was required for him.
I always shot pellets, as pellets would be more accurate. (or so I thought) I got a lot of robins and sparrows, but never at more than about 10 yards.
He always shot BBs, as he was a bit of an ammo hoarder and was proud of how many he had stockpiled. (thousands) I shot BBs through that gun once and could see them corkscrew through the scope. I tried to tell him to shoot pellets and quit being so damned cheap. He refused.
Anyway, we were walking along a trail one time and I spotted a blackbird at the top of a tree probably 50 yards away. I said: "See if you can pop that blackbird." He replied: "Nah, I don't want to kill anything." I said: "Don't worry. He's 50 yards away, you' haven't got the slightest chance to actually hit him, especially shooting BBs." So he accepted, just for the heck of it. Standing, offhand, with his bad vision and a bad scope. He had the full 10 pumps in it. He sent it, and a couple seconds later we heard the meat slap. "TICK"
Bro: "I got 'im!"
Me: "No way, you must've hit a branch."
Just then, the blackbird swung around underneath the branch he was on, wings just hanging there. A second or two later, one foot let loose and then the other. In the most dramatic fashion, that blackbird fell and hit every branch on the way down.
We both looked like:
Me: "Holy @#$%, you'll never make another shot like that in your LIFE!"
Bro: "You're right, because that's the end of my hunting days. I feel kinda bad."
We bush-wacked through the brush and swamp to look for him, but never did find him.
The story is great, but I still think it's also funny that I was shooting pellets out of a smoothbore, thinking they'd be more accurate, and burning my hard-earned money, and he was shooting BBs out of his rifle saving money but generally being inaccurate except at pretty close range.