[makdaddy03]

Do you guys out there know of any "Strange but True Shooting Victim Stories?
Such as There is this guy that lives in our town that was shot in the "Head" with a 357 mag. and lived. True story.. He has a very large knot on his forehead and is sorta goofy now. This happened about 15-20 yrs ago. And hes still walking the streets. Any others out there?:eek:

[arinvolvo]

I "shot" a fish (halibut) with a spear gun on a dive trip once...It fought so hard, that it pulled a 3 inch gaping chunk of meat out of itself, and swam away.

The next day, in the same spot, on another dive....I shot THE SAME FISH again...but this time he came with me...I dont mind a hole in my filet, as long as I get to eat it.:D

[makdaddy03]

LMAO....;)

[keithernTN]

Well there is this guy in my hometown and his nickname is Bullet, he has a .38 slug that entered his cheek and lodged in his neck and they never took it out.

Another guy I know was shot in the face point blank with a 9mm about 5 yrs ago. It messed his face up (paralized some of his cheek muscles)and he has to walk with a cane cause it screwed up his balance when the slug went into his ear canal and did some damage.

[themic]

picture kinda sucks this small, but take a look at the front cover of the current issue of the Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/06/)

technically not a shooting, but a nail bomb. dude lived. there is another full COM x-ray in the magazine.

[general]

There was another post about this somewhere... here or the 1911 board - will look for it.

[Deadman]

I'm not sure where this occured or if it's nothing more than an urban legend. Nonetheless I recall hearing a tale where a police officer was chasing after a criminal. Said police officer decided to fire a 'warning shot' into the air in order to scare the fleeing criminal into stopping. Well stop he did, as the bullet that went up came back down again, striking the criminal.

[12 Volt Man]

I used to live in the Bay Area of Kommifornia. On New Years Eve and various other occasions the gang bangers liked to go outside and shoot their guns off in the air. I heard full autos quite often. There was an elderly asian man walking down a sidewalk with his granddaughter. A dropped bullet dropped straight down out of the sky and hit him in the head. Killed him. This was in 94 or 95.

[Stay Low]

Well, here's one...but about a dog. it was on our news a week or so ago. A dog got hit by a car. I guess someone called the cops. The cop shot the dog in the head because he didn't want it to suffer. Someone, don't know who, takes the dog to the vet where they put him in the freezer (or whatever) while waiting for the owner to come get him. Don't know time frame. Owner gets there, the dog is alive in the freezer. They actually showed the dog who after recover suffers only some hearing loss. Just passing it along...

[Black_Talon]

When I was in high school a guy that lived two streets away broke up with his girlfriend and decided to blow his head off with a 20ga. Just as he was pulling the trigger he changed his mind and tried to pull the gun out of his mouth but didn't quite make it. he blew the left side of his jaw off. He lived and had beaucoup reconstructive surgeries but his face is still massively FUBARed. He grew a beard to cover it and you can still see him wandering around town from time to time. This was 30 years ago. Needless to say, he's still a little "off".

[cslinger]

I have met a cop who was off duty in a Baltimore city bar when it was robbed many many years ago. Perp. came in brandishing a .38 revolver and exclaimed this is a hold up or some such thing.

The cop, being a good cop, began to withdraw a small snub nosed piece himself in response to the robber. The robber sees this and puts a shot into this guys head.

So the round enters the guys left cheek, tears out a few teeth on the left side and proceeds to crack into some teeth on the right side of his mouth. The expended round was then floating in his mouth along with teeth, blood spit etc.

So this guys does the only thing he can think to do in all his pain and discomfort. Spits out what he thought was just his teeth and blood etc. onto the bar while finishing getting his piece out.

Well in a pile of blood on the bar lands a few teeth and one expended .38 caliber bullet. The robber sees this and prompty puts his gun down and raises his hands in fear and exclaims.."Sh%@ man, I am so sorry."

The cop in question wasn't being tough, nor does he make it out that he was being a tough guy. It was all he could do to stay conscious but what else are you going to do with a mouth full of garbage.

[Brad Johnson]

About 20 years ago a guy in my high school was cleanin a shotgun when someone asked him if it was empty. He said "Yep" and to prove it he reached down and pulled the trigger. Unfortunately he had his other hand resting on the end of the barrel with his index finger stuck in the end to steady it. You do the math.

Just about a year ago a guy at my local range was clearing his Beretta. He thumbed the mag release and racked the slide to eject the chambered round. Unfortunately, the mag only dropped a few millimeters and was still high enough in the mag well for the slide to strip out a fresh round. When he pulled the trigger to make sure it was clear he was also careless enough to have the gun pointed at his left hand. He is now much wiser (in addition to being minus a ring finger).

Brad

[bogie]

Heh - long time back, on a darts league night, an urban outdoorsman wandered into the pub I was playing in, and whipped out a butcher knife, and announced that he was holding the place up.

Rule #1: Don't rob donut shops.

Rule #2: Don't rob pubs on darts night.

I _profoundly_ wish I coulda seen the x-rays. The arresting officer was also kind enough to make sure that folks darts were returned.

[illuminatus99]

one of the range officers at the outdoor range I go to is missing an eye, he said that when he was a teen he was shooting a .22 and it stovepiped, he tried to clear it while looking down at the breech, somehow when he slammed the bolt shut the .22 went off and the bullet popped out and hit him right in the eye.......ouch.

[Larry Ashcraft]

I read this one in Drew Dix's book "The Rescue of River City". One of his Vietnamese soldiers took two rounds from an AK47 in the head. Both bullets went around the skull and lodged just under the skin over his ear. He was okay except for one hell of a headache.

BTW, the book is a good read, it tells Drew's story about how he won his Medal of Honor. Do a search on Drew Dix at http://www.homeofheroes.com/

[jmbrowning]

Coulda been work, newspaper, tv or net

Two low-life buddies get into an argument. Fisticuffs ensue. One of the gentlemen gets the upperhand and puts his friend into a headlock and tries to throttle the life out of him.

Said friend is desperately trying to kidney punch his way out of the predicament. Of course, that isn't too pleasant and so the emerging winner decides to cut this affair short. He produces a handgun and presses it against the loser's head and pulls the trigger. Both fall to the ground.

The bullet passed through the cheek, tongue, and other cheek of the losing combatants face and entered the shooter's mediastinum. The shooter fell over dead with a nice .380 hole punched in his chest. The loser ended up getting up and going to the hospital to get his face sewn back together.

Moral of the story...
Remember Rule #4: Know your target and what is behind it!:uhoh:

[winstonsmith]

This one is from the war in Iraq.

A british soldier got shot 4 times at close range with an Ak-47 in the helmet. He survived. I saw a picture of him, and he was smiling at the camera wearing his helmet with three bullet marks in it.

Lucky guy.

[Flashpoint]

When I was 17 I had a job working as a transport in an x-ray dept on 2ed shift. Because it was 2ed shift we mainly dealt with emergency room stuff. One evening we got called in to do a potable skull x-ray. When we got over to the ER we found a 300+ pound drug addict that tried very hard to commit suicide. He had been found parked on the side of the road, with blood all over the inside of the car. He had put a shotgun under his chin at a bad angle and ended up removing the side of his head. Being the size of man he was this was a pretty messy site. Anyway they brought him in, stabilized him and shipped him to Elvis Presley rehabilitation in Memphis.

[bogie]

Wrongo, Winston...

Helmet was used for target practice, but not while the guy was wearing it. The "journalist" didn't ask any questions, so the limey just smiled and had his fun...

[ed dixon]

I'm not making this up. I heard it as fact somewhere sometime. It goes that during the Civil War a soldier on the field of battle was shot through the scrotum, afterwhich the projectile proceeded to strike a young woman watching the fight from a porch some distance away. It struck "low" and nine months later she gave birth.

Anyone else ever heard of this?

[PlayTheAces]

We have a guy at work that tried the shotgun to the head trick, due to some problems with his marriage. His lower face doesn't quite look right, and he has problems talking, but he's still alive.

I can't for the life of me figure out how someone can survive a blast like that.

[SRYnidan]

Story from the NYPD stakeout squad. Two cops shot a armed robber 11 times in the head at point blank range (one Colt and one Smith snubby) not only did the guy not die he walked out to the ambulance. (158 Gr. round nose)

[NukemJim]

"I'm not making this up. I heard it as fact somewhere sometime. It goes that during the Civil War a soldier on the field of battle was shot through the scrotum, afterwhich the projectile proceeded to strike a young woman watching the fight from a porch some distance away. It struck "low" and nine months later she gave birth.

Anyone else ever heard of this?"

I have heard it but I doubt it very much. :( Consider that in the 1860s without antibiotics any wound piercing the peritoneum, gut, and Fallopian tubes would result in peritonitis which gives about a 90% or higher death rate and would give a pregnancy a very low chance of comint to term especally during the first trimester.

This is in additon to the improbality of carrying enough sperm to actually impregnate an egg ( Yes only one sperm makes it but the secretions of the multiple sperm help the transfer of sperm through the eggs membrane that is why men who have low sperm counts have difficulty in becoming fathers ).

I would have to put this story delightfull as it is into the category of " Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof "

NukemJim

[Quartus]

Yup. Many who died in those days would have been a day or two in the hospital today. Just about any wound that pierced the torso was likely to be fatal in those days. Not always, but a whale of a lot more than today.


Friend of mine used to have a gunstore in San Juan Capistrano. A regular customer came in one day with his left hand bandaged. Seems he was going to clean his .22 rifle, but wanted to check to see if it was loaded first. Smart guy! So he puts his hand over the muzzle and pulls the trigger.

Oh, mebbe not so smart! :what:

[larry_minn]

I knew a gent who got a .25 auto for his gal when he was working a oil rig at sea. He wanted her to have a means to protect herself when he was gone. Seems day before he left he got his GF upset and she pulls the .25 and shoots him. He raised his arms up and caught it in the forarm. Didn't file a report and went to the rig and had the medic on the drilling platform fix him up. He did dump the gal soon after. :)

[Triad]

I think I heard this story on Paul Harvey.

A cop is sent out to investigate a burglary when he catches the burglar on the scene. The burglar and the cop end up pointing their guns at each other and both decide to fire at the same time. Both of the bullets went into the bore of the other guys gun. Nobody was hurt and the crook went to jail.

[Jim March]

That last tale is possibly true, because in a gunfight it's common to "threat fixate" on the other guy's gun. The number of guns that are hit with incoming fire is inordinately high for that reason.

Which still makes this an incredibly low-probability event, but not impossible.

[arinvolvo]

Um...it kinda sorta IS IMPOSSIBLE!!

For those bullets to continue in straight lines from eachothers pistols to eachothers barrels, they would have crossed paths, and hit eachother.

[Flashpoint]

arinvolvo
That's what I was thinking

[Jim March]

oooooops :D

[jato]

I went to a shooting scene in 1997 where the male suspect shot his girlfriend in the head with a 2-inch S&W .38 special. The suspect then shot himself in the head.

The female low-crawled about 20 feet before going unconscious. The male went unconscious right away.

Both lived. In court, the female WALKED into the courtroom and prepared to testify. The male couldn't face her and changed his plea to guilty. He was confined to a wheelchair due to his injuries. The female had minimal problems and functions normally.

[Horsesense]

Had a neighbor who got shot in the head, with a .357 SWC, the bullet went in and pushed his bran out of the way and exited the top of his head, he walked to the truck and drove himself to the hospital.

My grandpa was shot in the chest with a .22, during a robbery, and his pocket New Testament deflected the bullet just enough to miss his heart. He stuck his thumb behind the hammer, to prevent a second shot, and bit the guy's finger off.

[JohnKSa]

On the civil war story.

Besides the already mentioned issues..

For anyone to realize that a single bullet had hit two people, the two people would have had to be in quite close proximity with someone watching both at the same time.

Problem is, people don't just stand around watching battles, especially not where they could get shot by one side or the other by accident.

Maybe some very smart young lady came up with this explanation for an otherwise very embarrassing situation...

[charlie d]

Back in the late '60s I was a spec 4 operating room specialist in the 116th MASH of the Del Nat. Guard. We used to work in the local hospital on Saturdays of our once a month duty.

I was assisting a doctor in the "outpatient" OR. We had a guy with quite a gut come in with a lump on his back. Turns out he'd been shot in the stomach at an oblique angle and the bullet followed around under the skin 'till it reached his back.

It was a very simple operation to slice the lump, remove the bullet and give him a few stitches. The doctor wanted me to remove it, but I chickened out. I always wish I had so I could say I took a bullet out of a guy. It looked like a .25 or .32. Some little thing, it was a long time ago. ;)

[blue86buick]

I hope that the people who check the loaded state of their gun by pulling the trigger, are in the minority. I mean, I've just recently gotten re-interested in guns, and I've seen proper handling many times by enough store employees to get engrained in my head how to check if a gun is unloaded.

1: Drop the magazine (if one exists). If desired, empty any cartridges from it.

2: Rack the slide/bolt/pump to open the breech and eject any chambered rounds.

3: Repeat step 2 as necessary to ensure chamber is clear (ie, shotguns.)

How hard is that? The people who do it by pulling the trigger are the same ones who blow holes in the roof of cop cars, by pulling the trigger on mounted police shotguns, or blow off their fingers, kill the cat accidentally, etc.

[Apple a Day]

Another dog story:
I have a buddy in Colorado. She has a dog named Reid, a beagle mix. Poor sucker came to her as an emergency case (she's a veterinarian) after being hit by a car. No one claimed him so she kept him. Reid is dumber than an electric razor for frogs but he's a happy kinda pup. He kept having ear problems, though. Ami took him in and finally took an X-ray of his head and found that he has a .22 or .25 lodged in his head next to his ear canal.
Either poor Reid got hit by a car and someone tried to put him out of his misery or there was an assassination attempt and he ran away, only to get creamed by a car.
Like I said, he's a pretty happy mutt, though.

[TheMariner]

JohnKSa, Yes people really did stand around watching some of the battles of the Civil War... read account of the 1st battle of Bull Run, for example.

[arinvolvo]

A guy I know named Hoss...Comes home to his trailer drunk as a skunk...hits his head on the cabinet...cusses a bit, goes to sleep....wakes up in the middle of the night...head is bleeding...still drunk, figures the dog somehow got in the trailer and bit him...

Gets the rifle, goes outside, shoots the dog.

and no, the dog didnt make it...but dumbass Hoss shure felt stupid in the morning.

That guy is an idiot.

[arinvolvo]

Another Hoss story.

His other dog, Popeye, is outside the trailer...An old lady is walking an Akita...that has a history of being not-so-nice.

Sweet old Popeye, goes to the end of his leash to say hi...still on the trailer's "property".

Akita wants to eat Popeye. Pulls the old lady over to Popeye, and begins to eat Popeye. Fully pinned, belly to the ground, with a 150 lb plus Akita chewing Popeyes back. Kids in the neighborhood are screaming...Hitting the dog with a stick, the old lady is pulling the leash...cant get the dog off.

Hoss hears commotion. Comes outside...Takes the stick from the kids, beats the Akita...Akita still eating Popeye. Mind you, Hoss is 6'4'' and built like a keg, I wouldnt want him to weild a stick against me.

hoss figures he is out of options...pulls his buck bowie knife from belt sheath, stabs akita to death.

Akita dies on top of Popeye.

Popeye taken to hospital....spends weeks after with tubes coming out from under hundreds of stitched to help with the puss drainage....Popeye, lives.

Old lady calls cops...wants to press charges...Cops tell her to go home and shut up...They even gave Hoss back his knife.

[Jim March]

Good for Hoss, on that latter scenario.

The lady actually thought HE was in the wrong?

:rolleyes:

[arinvolvo]

ya go figure...:rolleyes:

I spose you marry up the old age of the lady, and people's unconditional love of their pets, and this is what you get. She was mad that Hoss killed her dog, plain and simple.

It is funny however, that one dog he would kill, and the other dog he would kill for.:confused:

[Hot brass]

Heard on the radio a good while back. Mom talks the daughters boyfriend into going into the bedroom and shooting dad in the head. The .25 auto was placed to the temple of dad and fired. Dad wakes up, takes the gun from boyfriend and calls the cops. .25 bullet just skirted across his head. Mom, daughter, and boyfriend were jailed.:barf: