BF109's and Stukas too hard to shoot down? Anyone else finding this?

[ReconNZ]

Hi All, I''m loving the game post patch, but struggling to get kills on single seat fighters. I Did some testing and returned the following:

In a quick mission i scored 247 hits from incendiary and armour peircing .303 rounds into a bf109, and not only was it still flying, it wasnt even smoking. Sure the wings were a little shot up and the tail had some holes, but surely in reality a single seat fighter could take this kind of damage and still be flying along happily?

I had realistic gunnery on, limited ammo, just me and him in the air and all shots were from dead astern. I do love the damage model in CloD - I've seen bombers and fighters go down after just a couple of hits in the engines or cockpits, but surely 247 rounds up the backside would be enough to bring down any fighter?

Maybe the damage model needs tweaking from dead astern? What does everyone else think?