I've never been hit but I have seen that happen before. It always seems they take a greatly altered course when you break off one side but more than half the bird remains. My impression is that is what hapened here. When that happens the bird still is spinning and is well stabilized, but it is extremely unbalanced and the dynamics of the large piec left, along with the impact from the hit will radically alter it's course, but not it's stability. If you look at the extreme change in angle but the smoothness of the flight as it passes to the left, I think that is what happened here.
Funny thing is that, although I have never been hit by a target, I have been hit several times by birds either I or a partner have shot. At a Pheasant Tower shoot one day near here, a guy assigned with me and myself were both hit by consecutive shots by consecutive birds. I was hit in the left foot by a bird I shot. We laughed when it happened, then the next bird came straight at us again, he shot and a line drive screamer hit him right across the top of his head.
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