Agree w/ the idea that the pellet ran inside the inner periphery of the target's underside & exited toward the shooter as the target came apart.
I know of one occurance where a lens was damaged on a skeet field at station four, presumably from a pellet strike, and I have had lenses struck and seen pellets pellets embedded in persons shooting in other circumstances. There is good reason for the old field rule of shooting at 'HIGH BIRDS ONLY', prolly safer for the dogs too.
FWIW, I have a 20ga M12 w/a 1/2~5/8" chunk of clay target fully embedded in the buttstock. It happened at station 7 while I was in queue waiting my turn to shoot. It was a piece from the shooter's broken high 7 target.
