Yep, agree with you,I was just looking at my daugther's cat just sitting there and thinking about this Thread and yes that back of the Cranium would be a great shot and so it would be on the vast majority of animals out there,....Hogs are just built differently on the ear drum canal matter, don't know about other critters but if you carefully look at those hog skulls, there's no direct path to the brain and still have to go throught a full skull bone, so, again talking small bore I rather shoot where the sking is directly on the skull (between eye and ear) because if you actually shoot at the ear you'll have some meat/cartilage to go through and that can considerably slow down a pellet (small Bore).....so in the end I want to shoot somewhere where it impacts immediatly with bone.