Only thing I can think is that the gold is striped looking before the black tip. Not usually like that. Zoom in on the pic and you can see it. Nice bird, congrats.
I completely agree. Have stayed put and hid many times after a shot with other animals close by that had no clue what just happened, just knew something had. After all clear and settled down, when I'll break cover and make the recovery. Sometimes not always able to do this but always try to if...
I can only speak for the Witts but if you follow their directions you shouldn't have any problems. I took mine off once to clean and skipped the loctite on the barrel, 1st shot sent it flying. Found it about 30yrds away lol. Put it back on with the loctite and no issues since and it hadn't...