Could it be that you did it on purpose?

were ironwood sentinels weak to pierce? Or had a high Interrupt?

Because you want it's loot/it attacked you/it's endangered?

o.o

Cause it was your only weapon.

u are trolling us becuase ironwood senteniel was taken out of sk at the moment

He's not trolling, its just a question he made up.. well okay i guess it is troll. but there is a answer to this

So you could charge up your gun and unleash it on monsters (possibly in the Unknown Passageway since that's the only place IWS appear anymore)

You missed a silkwing nearby and hit the sentinel instead.

He wanted an excuse to ask this question!

Does it matter? You shot it at that Ironwood, because that is the course of action you took, without any further specification, it is quite indeterminable as to what relative situation you would find satisfactory to your question. And, a 'why' question does not have a straight answer, as it is not as simple as a 'yes or no' question, where the answers can be accounted for. By asking 'why' to how a certain circumstance was set up, would be like asking how the universe started, there is no direction as to how this question would find an optimal answer, even if given in that direct of a 'common sense' answer. For goodness sake's we can range from "Because Nick decided to shoot a Spiral Knight's trailer shot and decided to use you to shoot a Ironwood Sentinel in the back." to "Because you were just playing Spiral Knights, and a glitch in the game caused an Ironwood Sentinel to spawn during depth 27 of Vanaduke, with it's back turned to you, and it just so happened that as you stepped on the party button, a meteor pierced the Earth's atmosphere, and as you killed the first wave, it's trajectory came to it having being aimed at your house, and as the ironwood spawned, the meteorite smashed through your roof, and crashed next to you, causing a resulting impact of force, hurling several chunks of debris into the air, and it just so happened that your window was open, and due to the chaos theory, a butterfly in Japan flapped it's wings, which resulted in a hurricane on the coast of Mexico, which led to thermal winds from the sun to be redirected from a fluctuation in the magnetic field to whip wind through your window, blasting away all the debris, which ricocheted off the walls, hitting your hand, leading to you accidentally pressing the shield button at the wrong moment, slowing you down and getting you to get attacked. This all occurred whilst one of your party members had just so happened to have a truck that slipped on a slippery road to crash into another car that swirled past their window, distracting them and making them accidentally revive you, and as you are about to recover from the impact of the meteorite, a piece of your ceiling falls on your hand, causing you to leap up in pain and trip over the meteorite, hit your shelf which tipped over abruptively, sending a portrait to hurl through the air and hit your keyboard, revving you and firing a blast of needles to the back of the glitch spawned Ironwood Sentinel." So as you can hopefully see, the question you have asked is extremely difficult to properly satisfy, due to the innumerable variety of possible answers.

Moar questions? And prizes? :D

And, what did Hex get? :D

Because its Back must have been Aching of stiffness from standing all those years?

:3

Oh, Duskfinder's avatar reminded me of Hexzyle. :D

Why are people still answering the question?

Proves that no one reads posts that come before them. D:

Nicks Character?

I'm pretty sure there are no monsters that "guarantee" a certain prize from the wheel...

a silkwing?

Gremlin mender!