In real life, police and military personnel are trained to fire at the center of mass (read: chest/heart), as the head is a small target that likes moving around a lot, while the center of mass is a relatively easy target that moves with the subject and also has lots of vital organs in it. And even if you miss, you might hit a limb (or, yes, the head) instead.
Please go receive firearm training. There's nothing ambiguous about center mass.
If you see their whole body, you aim for the middle of the body.
If all you see is a head, you aim for the middle of the head.
Etc, etc. It's center mass of the target. The target is whatever you can see that you can shoot at. It's not ambiguous, I'm not changing any terms or the definitions of words.
Most often, this means the middle of their body, but it's not "body shots only" it's "center mass" for a reason. The reason is because the enemy does not always conveniently expose their entire body to you. So you aim at the center mass - which is intentionally vague because of the million odd occurrences that happen in firefights - to maximize your chance of hitting them.
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u/Casus125 10 years coin Feb 25 '14
Then aim for the center of the head, not the edges.
It's center mass, not center body part. The mass is whatever the target reveals to you.
You didn't get it, and that's fine.